We have a small weather depression last week that brought a few showers. Enough to make the ground wet! The good part was that the Hoopa Weir was removed and the weather depression started the fish down in Hoopa to start moving up river. In one week’s, time, many of the fish that had been held up below the Hoopa...
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If you see a family member duck out early on Thanksgiving Day, or fail to show up at all, you can bet it’s raining and the rivers are either open or on the verge. After suffering through an extremely dry November, it looks like our weather pattern is about to change. The ridge of high pressure that’s been parked off...
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A quick Sunday drive to Baum Lake proved to be just that a quick drive to the lake. I observed a few anglers that were trying their collective luck at some of the most popular shoreline locations.  A couple of fly anglers in waders and a personal pontoon lined the channel just south of the fishing access pier, a few...
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Fishing continues to be very good. Pikes Pt & the jetty doing good from shore. Christie has been slow. Boats finding fish trolling from pikes to camp Ron McD to Eagle’s Nest from 4-5ft deep to 9-14ft deep. A few scattered on the west side but we found em in tight and shallow fly casting small nymphs yesterday. 3.5lb average...
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Pacific salmon fisheries management is driven by efforts to predict the future. These predictions are known as preseason abundance forecasts, and prediction inaccuracies can have major impacts on fish populations and fisheries. However, few evaluations have been conducted on just how reliable these ecological forecasts are. Relationships between an environmental variable and an ecosystem response (like salmon abundance) may follow a pattern, but...
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