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Healthy sandhill cranes have nothing to fear from coyotes when they can simply jump into the sky. USFWS Photo by Dave Menke

Healthy sandhill cranes have nothing to fear from coyotes when they can simply jump into the sky. USFWS Photo by Dave Menke

Trout Plants Planting in Full Swing
by Collins Lake Staff, FEBRUARY 29, 2016
Collins Lake

Starting last week, the spring trout planting program is in full swing at Collins Lake. There will be at least 2 private plants every week in March, April & May in addition to what DFW will plant. Some weeks will get 3 plants! Here is the link to see the latest trout planting schedule updated each week.

Illegal Fish Selling on the Streets of San Francisco
Jerry Back
by Jerry Back, FEBRUARY 26, 2016
San Francisco Bay

Illegal Fish Selling on the Streets of San Francisco02/26/16 -- While walking through the heart of San Francisco’s Chinatown today, I spied an oldish-looking man sitting on the dirty sidewalk with his back against a bus shelter. This was on Stockton Street--the central hub of all things edible in Chinatown. Fish markets, poultry, pork, amphibians, crustaceans, fresh produce--you name it,...
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Collins Lake Fishing Report
by Collins Lake Staff, FEBRUARY 26, 2016
Collins Lake

TODAY is a TROPHY TROUT plant day! We have been stocking every other week which consists of 1,800 lbs. of fish including some giant trophy sized ones! Our lake looks incredible, we are at 60% capacity already with more rain coming in the spring. Of course our hope would be to fill up to maximum capacity but...
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Rogue Plunker Report
Southern Oregon
by Larry Ellis, FEBRUARY 26, 2016
Rogue River- Lower

Larry Cody from the Rogue Outdoor Store also reported that both plunkers from the bank and boat fishermen were catching plenty of winter steelhead on the lower Rogue River. "We're getting some pretty good action on the 3.0 Mag Lip," said Cody on Thursday about the boat fishermen. "And the plunkers are doing pretty well on pink Spin-N-Glos. And we're seeing...
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Southern Oregon
by Larry Ellis, FEBRUARY 26, 2016
Bird Island

With the ocean as flat as a sheet of liquid mercury, salty dogs outside the Port of Brookings Harbor also saw plenty of lingcod action between Bird Island and House Rock. "The fishing was so good it was just plain stupid," said Captain Jim Bithell of Charthouse Sportfishing. "We got our lingcod on all of those herring I jigged at Crescent...
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Chetco Metal
Southern Oregon
by Larry Ellis, FEBRUARY 26, 2016
Chetco River

The Chetco River continued to kick out plenty of fresh incoming heavy metalheads as well as a bounty of downback steelhead heading back to sea. The ratio was about 3 downers for every fresh steelhead, and the action is expected to continue throughout the week by boat anglers deploying primarily side-drifting methods and by bank anglers using drift-fishing techniques.