The 2017 Annual Junior Chukar Hunt, sponsored by the Modoc Fish Game and Recreation Commission (MFG&RC) was a huge success this year. The event took place on January 14, 2017 at Likely Place Golf & RV Resort, in Likely. For the past few years the event had been held at Alturas Ranches, just outside of Alturas. This year the group decided to...
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What can you learn from a dead fish? Surprisingly, a lot. Dead salmon are a common sight this time of year, as adult fall-run Chinook salmon perish after migrating upstream from the ocean to spawn in the rivers of California's Central Valley.  Their carcasses then drift downstream, where they either decay in the river, are eaten by animals, wash ashore, or...
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A combination of melting snowpack and heavy rains ushered in the first large colonies of chrome-bright winter steelhead into the Chetco River last week. A few lucky anglers deploying a plethora of steelhead techniques got the opportunity to go one-on-one with some water-walking, thumb-burning heavy metalheads. And it's about time.  I was beginning to worry whether or not the silver missiles...
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Emerald Cove Marina on Bullard's Bar Reservoir is showcasing a fantastic offer at the current ISE show at the Cal Expo in Sacramento. The offer allows anglers to stay on the lake and take full advantage of their time on the water. Many anglers who fish this lake pull their boats out of the water in the evening, drive all...
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The rains came, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service got to work. Whether it was to release more than a half-million steelhead, making sure rotary screw collection traps on the upper Sacramento River were preserved, or monitoring for Delta smelt, a little inclement weather wasn’t stopping the Service from crucial daily activities. The very welcome wet opening to 2017 didn’t slow...
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