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Lake Sabrina Boat Landing 760-873-7425 July 10, 2017   Less than two feet till spill – what a sight the Lake is – almost full – the trees leafed out – snow covered mountains in the backgrounds – beautiful blue sky and fluffy white clouds – yup, we’re in God’s country! And lots of people up at the Lake enjoying God’s country!   Fishing did slow...
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 In a ceremony held today in Yorktown, Virginia, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke shared a $14.7 million check with Boat Owners Association of The United States (BoatUS) Vice President Heather Lougheed, who accepted on behalf of America’s recreational boaters. The amount represents 2017-18 funding for the federal Boating Infrastructure Grant (B.I.G.) program, which funnels user taxes paid by boaters to...
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OK, I triple dog dare you! Say the title of this article ten times really fast without slurring your words. You can call them whatever you want: feeders, springers, kingster-amma mammas or Chinook-meisters.  But a salmon by any other name would still taste as sweet. Whichever name you wish to assign them, these Chinook are giving anglers plenty of rod-bending, line-peeling...
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Some of the lakes near Redding, Ca. are fast becoming known as the finest land locked salmon lakes in California. With bumper crops of Kokanee salmon in Trinity and Whiskeytown Lakes this year, anglers are out spending quality time with friends and family fishing for these silver bullets of the deep. Trinity Lake has a ten (10) salmon daily limit...
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My first opportunity to visit California’s magnificent Eastern Sierra came in late April 1975, while I was a young Fish and Game warden stationed on the Colorado River. During the next three and a half years, I was sent to the Eastern Sierra six more times. My assignments included working the opening weekend of trout season at Crowley Lake, the...
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Question: I have a fly fishing question on rigging flies for nymphing. There is a very popular technique called “Bounce Nymphing,” which involves using three nymphs on short droppers off of a long leader with a weight attached to the bottom of the leader. The idea is to bounce the shot off of the stream bottom in order to keep...
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