Fishing the North Coast:  Sport salmon season likely to open May 16 Kenny Priest/For the Times-Standard HASA dinner coming April 30 Though not official as of Wednesday evening, word has it the Pacific Fishery Management Council is leaning towards alternative 1 for sport salmon anglers in the CA KMZ. According to Jim Yarnell, who is in Vancouver, WA representing the Humboldt Area Saltwater...
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Grace, Nora and Lake McCumber were planted by CDFW on 04-12-16 with trout from the Darrah Springs Hatchery. These fish, as in the past are 10”-12” triploid rainbows. CDFW will have more plantings schedule in prior to the opening of the general trout opener Saturday, April 30 and will continue throughout the summer. Fishing pressure is very light preceding now the...
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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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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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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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