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Winter in Northern California can be both beautiful and brutal depending on what kind of weather patterns Mother Nature sends our way.  This winter has been relatively mild and we've seen weather that resembles springtime more than it does our typical winter.  On a positive note, some of our local fishing opportunities do very well in the spring, so it's...
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The 5th annual Humboldt Steelhead Days Expo When: Saturday, Feb. 3 • 11am to 3:30pm • FREE! Where: Prasch Hall Community Center is located on the Perigot Parks grounds, Blue Lake, CA What: A family-friendly watershed education day! Bring the kids and learn all about steelhead, fishing, river ecology and restoration, the outdoors and wildlife, trails, and general education and awareness about our North Coast watersheds. Sign up for the HSD fishing...
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Recently, when I mentioned to friends that I am going to Death Valley for a short vacation, the reply I usually got was, "Why? It’s so hot there.”  People seem to be shocked that I would consider going to a place where the heat is often over 120 degrees in the summer.  Some say it's desolate and there's nothing to...
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The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) invested several hundred thousand dollars on the project, including pressure washing and disinfecting 6,000 linear feet of fish rearing ponds and associated plumbing, coating all fish rearing surfaces with Food and Drug Administration-approved epoxy coating to improve fish culture conditions and installing new manifolds for the water recirculation loop to improve efficiency. The...
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The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has released the Evaluation Report for the Ocean Resources Enhancement and Hatchery Program (OREHP). The report concludes that while the OREHP has significantly contributed to the scientific understanding of marine enhancement science, it has not substantially increased the abundance of legal-sized White Seabass, resulting in less than one percent contribution to recreational and commercial fisheries...
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