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San Francisco  --  The 2020 salmon season will start for sport anglers from Pigeon Pt. in southern San Mateo County south to the Mexican border on April 4.  Sport anglers north of there, including those out of HMB, SF, Bodega Bay, Fort Bragg and Shelter Cove will get a chance to catch a salmon starting a week later on April...
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One of the great things about fishing in the North State is that if one location is not producing another probably is. Such was the case of my late week adventures to Baum Lake on Thursday and Shasta Lake on Friday. Thursday afternoon’s visit to Baum Lake provided a couple of strikes and short-lived hookups on my reliable candy patterned Kastmaster,...
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Whether we realize it’s happening or not, we can expose ourselves to environmental pollution hundreds of times a day, whether by air, water, or land. These pollutants have numerous health effects, many of which are still unknown. Researchers are currently trying to determine potential health effects related to microplastics, or microscopic plastic fragments, which have become a ubiquitous form of pollution....
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Over the past 20 to 30 years I have attended many of the Klamath Fisheries Management Council (KFMC now federally sunset) Pacific Fisheries Management Council (PFMC) National Fisheries Management Service (NFMS) California Department Fish and Game Commissioners meetings plus being on the Trinity Adaptive Management Working Group (TAMWG part of the TRRP) for over 16yrs plus being a fishing guide for...
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The CA Dept. of Fish and Wildlife believes there are about 473,183 adult salmon swimming around in the ocean now.   This is better than their prediction last year at this time of 379,600 and should lead to a decent fishing season.   The forecast of 379,600 salmon in 2019 ended up being about 136,000 shy of what was eventually counted after...
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A couple of weeks ago, when the winter weather was almost spring like, the urge to go fishing somewhere was too strong for me to ignore.  Plans involving my daughter Meredith, her husband Robert Feamster and their four kids, who were out of school for the week, took shape. After briefly discussing where to go we settled on Iron Canyon Reservoir,...
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