Articles

Swell Day on The Sac
Ramblings
by John Higley, OCTOBER 10, 2018
Sacramento River - Upper

Last Friday, thanks to my pal Mike Bogue, a chap who has been guiding anglers full time on the Sacramento River for 27 years, I got the chance to ride along on a king salmon fishing expedition. With us was Cal Kellogg, another friend and the editor of the Fish Sniffer news magazine. Our goal was to catch a salmon...
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Weather has changed
Trinity River Fishing
by E.B. Duggan, OCTOBER 7, 2018
Trinity River

The weather has changed and we are definitely into fall weather. The water year for 2018 -2019 began October 1 and Willow Creek has received 0.9 inches of rain. On Oct. 3 Douglas City and Lewiston had a heavy rain cell come into their area and dropped 0.25 to 0.50 inches of rain that caused a wall of mud to...
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CDFW’s Elkhorn Slough Designated ‘Wetland of International Importance'
by CDFW, OCTOBER 7, 2018

Congressman Jimmy Panetta, California State Senator Bill Monning, State Assemblymember Mark Stone, and representatives from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, NOAA, California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), and Elkhorn Slough Foundation gathered on October 5 at Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve’s Hester Marsh to celebrate the designation of Elkhorn Slough as a Wetland of International Importance by the...
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SHARE Program to Offer Wild Pig, Bear, Turkey, Quail and Dove Hunts this Fall
by CDFW, OCTOBER 7, 2018

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s (CDFW) Shared Habitat Alliance for Recreational Enhancement (SHARE) program will provide public access for wild pig, bear, turkey, quail and dove hunts on a property in Tulare County this fall and spring. This is the first year that SHARE has offered opportunities at Hart Ranch, which includes 975 acres of rolling oak woodland 15...
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Coquille Valley Wildlife Area reopens to public use
by ODFW, OCTOBER 6, 2018

The Coquille Valley Wildlife Area reopens in stages to public use in time for waterfowl season. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife will reopen the Beaver Slough tract October 13 and the Winter Lake tract October 20. Both tracts make up the 660-acre wildlife area and have been closed since June 1 for habitat restoration activities including tidal channel construction. “Waterfowl season begins...
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Southern Oregon Bays Producing Salmon
Southern Oregon
by Larry Ellis, OCTOBER 6, 2018
Rogue Bay

An unusually high amount of jack Chinook with a few big kings mixed in crossed the Rogue and Chetco bars last week, enough fish to keep fishermen trolling spinnerbait rigs. In the Rogue bay, if you didn’t have one on, someone around you did. And that’s what keeps people on the water, knowing that there are fish to be caught. “We have...
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