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Scenic overlook of Trinidad Bay from the Memorial Lighthouse in downtown Trinidad


 


Miracle March doing a number on coastal rivers
Kenny Priest
by Kenny Priest, MARCH 10, 2016



Heavy rain forecasted for the weekend With the “Miracle March” in full swing, options for winter steelhead fishing will remain few and far between over the next week. An atmospheric river that’s set up over the Pacific Ocean is taking aim at the North Coast and will deliver several powerful storms starting Thursday. More than six inches of rain is on...
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Westlands Water District in Hot Water with Securities & Exchange Commission
by Restore the Delta, MARCH 9, 2016
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta

Stockton, CA - The federal Securities and Exchange Commission charged California’s largest agricultural water district today with misleading investors about its financial condition as it issued a $77 million bond offering, with one of its managers bragging about using “a little Enron accounting.” California’s largest agricultural water district misled investors who bought $77 million of municipal bonds by using...
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Pyramid Lake Producing Big Cutts
by Jon Baiocchi, MARCH 8, 2016
Pyramid Lake

It’s that time of year again at Pyramid Lake when the fishing is off the hook, and the Lahontan cutthroat trout are on the feed. March is a top producing month at the big pond, and April can be very productive as well. The entire season has fished better than normal this year, even with the cold water temperatures during...
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Southern California Water Agency to Purchase of Delta Islands
by Restore the Delta, MARCH 8, 2016
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta

Stockton, CA – At a closed session board meeting this morning, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California authorized the purchase of five islands in the San Francisco Bay-Delta for an undisclosed sum. The deal is highly controversial in Northern California as it would put Southern California’s most powerful water agency in control of a group of Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta islands...
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Klamath River News and Update
Trinity River Fishing
by E.B. Duggan, MARCH 7, 2016

Klamath River

The forecast for the Klamath Chinook salmon season is NOT looking very good for the 2016 salmon season. What with four years of drought, no to very little snow pack and very poor water conditions the projected Klamath River fall Chinook salmon ocean abundance of 142,200 is more like the 1996 returns. We could be looking at very small in-river...
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Trintiy Lake Update
Trinity River Fishing
by E.B. Duggan, MARCH 7, 2016

Trinity Lake

Trinity Lake: The Lake is 126ft (an increase of 5ft.) below the overflow and 37% of capacity (2% increase) Inflow to Trinity Lake is 7,248cfs and the Trinity Dam is releasing 749cfs to Lewiston Lake with 422cfs going to Whiskeytown Lake and on to the Keswick Power Plant with 3,239cfs being released to the Sacramento River. ...
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