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Lower Klamath NWR, Siskiyou County
The spots on a butterfly wing are not random but help identify this as a California tortoiseshell.


 


We're Seeing Rainbows This Morning!
by Lake Sabrina Boat Landing Staff, JULY 23, 2021
Lake Sabrina

Rainbows - we see Rainbows - Wright’s Rainbows that is from Thatcher, Idaho!! ...
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Ocean Salmon Season Showing Signs of Life
Kenny Priest
by Kenny Priest, JULY 22, 2021



Well, it looks like the salmon season on the North Coast has a pulse after all. After the first three weeks of the season produced very little, especially out of Eureka, salmon are finally starting to show up. The hot spot has been right out front of Trinidad. “It’s been like this off and on all season,” said Tony Sepulveda...
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Lake Sabrina Weekly Report
by Lake Sabrina Boat Landing Staff, JULY 20, 2021
Lake Sabrina

A load of fish from the Department of Fish and WildLife last Thursday had the kids doing the happy dance and being so proud to help bring dinner home for the family in between the intermittent ThunderBoomers and rain thru the week. Ezekiel (8) and Jacob (6) Navar had quite the discussion between themselves on the color of the MiceTail Ezekiel...
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It is often assumed that the goals of conserving fish and exploiting them for food and income are fundamentally at odds with one another. For example, restricting fishing may help protect biodiversity but could hurt communities that rely on fisheries. However, cooperation among stakeholders in such environments has given rise to a synergistic “social conservationist” approach. A synthesis publication in the journal Aquatic Conservation:...
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Eagle Lake Fishing Report
by Valerie Aubrey, JULY 16, 2021
Eagle Lake

I’m still waiting on my truck & my mobile welder for my A1 wrecked road boat trailer. My buddy Mike Gregory gave me the helm of his awesome boat today for fishing this morning! Later start than normal for me but we had lines in by 7 we did go a while without a lot happening but we did boat...
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Salmon Smolts Being Shuffled Between Klamath Hatcheries
Kenny Priest
by Kenny Priest, JULY 14, 2021



Due to extremely poor water conditions and high risks of fish disease on the Klamath River, California Department of Fish and Wildlife hatchery managers were recently forced to truck more than 1 million smolts out of Iron Gate Hatchery into two other hatcheries in the Klamath watershed. This is the first time in it’s 55-year history Iron Gate Fish Hatchery...
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