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Weather, water lining up for Friday tuna run
Kenny Priest
by Kenny Priest, OCTOBER 4, 2018

Humboldt County Coast

Humboldt tuna fisherman looking for a little redemption may soon get another opportunity. The ocean on Friday is looking good, and the warm water is close – roughly 30 miles northwest of the Eureka entrance. The middle of September produced some of the best tuna fishing anyone can possibly remember, but the fishing since has been mostly a bust. A fleet of boats ventured...
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Best bets for weekend fishing: Ocean rockfish are still on the bite with limits being caught. Fall Chinook fishing is coming into its prime in coastal bays. Trout in Diamond and Willow lakes and Lost Creek Reservoir in the SW Zone. Hatchery summer steelhead in the middle and upper Rogue River. Trout in higher elevation lakes like Detroit, Dexter, Foster and North Fork reservoirs and...
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Give us a wing and a tail - Map of collection barrels for grouse and quail now available If you bag a bird, don’t forget to give us a wing and a tail for any forest grouse or mountain quail you harvest! Use paper bags in the bright blue collection barrels placed at major road junctions or highways in hunting areas and...
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The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) is offering waterfowl hunting opportunities at the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve (ELER) in Hayward during the 2018-19 season. The reserve includes former commercial salt ponds now managed by CDFW as low-salinity water bird habitat and areas restored to full tidal action. Access to ELER for waterfowl hunting will be open for 100 hunters...
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The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is seeking qualified applicants to fill a soon to be vacant position on the Fish Restoration and Enhancement (R and E) Program Board. Interested individuals must apply by Oct. 15, 2018 using this form, dfw.state.or.us/fish/RE/docs/board/2017/RE%20Board%20Application%2010-2014%20form%20fill.pdf This position represents gillnetting interests on the R and E Board. The ideal Gillnet Representative candidate will be a resident...
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The Bureau of Land Management is beginning work on emergency stabilization projects aimed at reducing post fire damage and threats to public safety on public lands burned in the Carr Fire. Natural resource specialists in the Redding Field Office are working from an Emergency Stabilization and Rehabilitation plan prepared by a team of specialists called a Burned Area Emergency Response Team.   ...
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