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If it isn’t broken, don’t fix it. Whacked em again today. Toplining at 4-5ft deep on orange & cinnamon leech trolling flies AND orange needlefish (red magic fishscale #2) & red/gold 1/4oz Thomas Buoyant at 11ft. Speed 1.9-2.4mph & nothing under 2lb & nothing over 3.2lb. (Scale in 10ths). Early 12-30 feet of water, later 42-48ft of water. West side,...
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The Remington 870 is one of those shotguns that people either love or toss in the back of the gun safe and maybe take it out here and there to clean it. To me, the Remington 870 is an iconic shotgun that will never fade away. I’m sure most people have a story or two about shooting a Remington 870....
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When the Outdoor Writers Association of California chose Siskiyou County as the site for this spring’s writers conference, I couldn’t have been more pleased. I’ve had a soft spot in my heart for this unspoiled land at the top of the state since I first discovered it fifty-three years ago. I had just graduated from Orland High School and was scheduled...
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So for all the Shaking – Rattling – and Rolling that’s been going on, we haven’t felt a thing at the Lake, but that may also be that we were a bit on the busy side and a bit on the tired side during the evening quake – didn’t even hear or see a rockslide. Our thoughts are with those...
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Still catchin’. The fish are moving around a bit now. Still on orange for me & everything biting us this morning was either in 8-14ft of water 4-6ft deep or in 20-30ft of water 11-12ft deep. I know I have fish on the west side so I’ve been scouting more territory on the east side and middle. Highest surface temp...
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Small headwater streams at high elevations may be mostly inaccessible to fish, but they still teem with aquatic life. Benthic macroinvertebrates, including insect larvae, worms, snails, and other backbone-lacking creatures, often rule the alpine waterways. These organisms are a significant source of food in the upper watershed as well as in downstream reaches. However, their high-altitude homes put them on the...
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