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Collins Lake Fishing Report
by Collins Lake Staff, APRIL 8, 2016
Collins Lake

What a great week of fishing we had, which included 4 trout plants as well. The biggest Rainbow (6 lb. 12 oz.) was caught by Darin Ruth of Newcastle who trolled a Rapala Lure near the sand beach. The biggest Catfish was caught by Kristen Dukes of Marysville and her whopper weighed 11 pounds!! She was fishing the east...
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On The Water
Southern Oregon
by Larry Ellis, APRIL 1, 2016


SURFPERCH - LINGCOD DRAW ANGLERS TO BROOKINGS AND GOLD BEACH Last week's flat-calm seas and sunny weather drew anglers to fish the ocean out of the Port of Brookings Harbor and try their hand at some pretty fine surfperch fishing from shoreline venues from Crissey Field at the Oregon/California border up to Gold Beach. On Thursday the Port of Brookings Harbor's parking...
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Lawsuit Challenges FDA’s Approval of Genetically Engineered Salmon
by Michael Coats, MARCH 31, 2016


SAN FRANCISCO, CA—A broad coalition of environmental, consumer, and commercial and recreational fishing organizations today sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for approving the first-ever genetically engineered (GE) food animal, an Atlantic salmon engineered to grow quickly. The man-made salmon was created by AquaBounty Technologies, Inc. with DNA from three fish: Atlantic salmon, Pacific king salmon, and Arctic...
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Downers
Kenny Priest
by Kenny Priest, MARCH 31, 2016
Smith River

The Smith is holding right around nine feet on the Jed smith gauge and the fishing has remained pretty good this past week reports guide Mike Coopman. He said, “The river has been holding its color pretty well, likely from the snowmelt. There isn’t much fishing pressure left, but there’s plenty of fish around to make a good day. Almost...
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Blown Out
Kenny Priest
by Kenny Priest, MARCH 31, 2016
Eel River

The main stem remains blown out, currently running at just under 10,000 cfs as of Wednesday. According to Paul Grundman of Rio Dell's Grundmans Sporting Goods, it will be another week to 10 days before it’s fishable.
Most steelhead rivers to close March 31
Kenny Priest
by Kenny Priest, MARCH 31, 2016


It’s been quite a few years since we’ve headed into a salmon season with this much uncertainty. With the number of salmon swimming off North Coast waters on a pretty sharp decline, all bets are off as to how bad or good the fishing will be. Hopefully we’ll be talking about the latter on Saturday morning as the recreational salmon...
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