The Chetco River fished quite well last week with the river maintaining between 1,500 and 1,800 cubic feet per second. The upper river holes were running quite clear but surprisingly some of the lower runs, say from Loeb State Park down to Social Security Bar were colored up enough for a few drift-boaters like Andy Martin from Wild Rivers...
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Every angler loves to think that he or she has it all figured out when it comes to predicting just how long the Pacific herring run will last in Crescent City Harbor. So it's hard to believe that the herring run is already a done deal when it just barely got started. "They just went away," said Loren Taylor of...
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Question: My girlfriend and I were recently surf fishing on a local beach when some other “fishermen” showed up demanding we leave as it was their fishing spot. Things escalated quickly when one of the anglers cast his line over mine and intentionally cut it. From there the situation degraded with the other party making threats of death and bodily...
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Every angler loves to think that he or she has it all figured out when it comes to predicting just how long the Pacific herring run will last in Crescent City Harbor. So it's hard to believe that the herring run is already a done deal when it just barely got started. "They just went away," said Loren Taylor of...
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Crab Snaring on President’s Day 2016 There was certainly a lot of pent-up demand among recreational crabbers over the long President’s Day weekend.  The three-month ban was officially lifted at approximately 5 PM on Friday, February 12th.  Due to high surf advisories predicted through Saturday night along the Northern California coast, the crab snaring probably didn’t begin in earnest until Sunday...
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