Bishop Creek FIsh & Trail Report It's Peak Season Party Time Y'all!   Independence Day has come and gone and with the middle of July just a few days away, there is no mistaking that the peak season is here. Families are busy fishing and kayaking, hikers are hitting the trails in greater numbers, and the overnight parking at the trailheads is starting...
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Well the Fourth of July came and passed without any serious incidents on the rivers or in the forests. We do have one incident in the Sierra’s down by Yosemite. From what I have been able to find out it is getting close to being under control. Let’s keep our fingers crossed and hope for some mild temperatures in the...
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Ocean conditions over the long weekend were just about perfect, and there were no shortage of holiday boaters taking advantage of the flat-calm seas while targeting Pacific halibut and rockfish. There were plenty of rockfish limits from Shelter Cove to Crescent City, but the halibut again garnered most of the attention, especially out of Eureka. Though tides weren’t favorable and...
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Fisheries biology and hospitality have an unexpected common interest: occupancy. Just like hotel managers track seasonal trends in occupied and vacant rooms, FISHBIO’s biologists recently conducted a statistical analysis to predict patterns in when striped bass (Morone saxatilis) occupied sample sites on the Stanislaus River. They treated the entire study area as a “hotel” broken down into 39 individual sites,...
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          A little rain, a little shine, we’re still in love with Summertime!!!     Lucky for us, and everyone else for that matter, we didn’t have any crazy blown out windy days this week…hooray! And for those of us that were prepared for them, the afternoon thunderstorms didn’t last too long so they were only a minor inconvenience for the most part. Well,...
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