Fishing Articles

Trinity River Fishing Report
Trinity River Fishing
by E.B. Duggan, FEBRUARY 3, 2019
Trinity River - Willow Creek Weir

Happy Groundhogs Day; the trouble is that the official Groundhog is frozen back east so he can’t come out! MEETINGS: California Fish & Game Commission: Feb.6 CFDC meeting to be held at the Resources Building Auditorium, 1416 Ninth St, Sacramento at 08:30. Topics of concern will be the listing of Northern California Summer Steelhead listing and upper Klamath-Trinity river spring run...
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Baum Lake Continues to Produce
by Gary Heffley, FEBRUARY 2, 2019
Baum Lake

Looking to get in a quick afternoon of fishing before the upcoming rainy weekend, I made the drive up 299 from Redding to Baum Lake, and, as usual, was not disappointed. As noted in prior reports, Baum Lake is an outstanding winter fishery that is complemented by stocks of both brown and rainbow trout from the adjacent Crystal Lake Hatchery. I stopped...
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Macroinvertebrates Meet Microplastics
by FISHBIO, FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Our planet is awash in plastic. It’s ubiquitous, takes hundreds of years to degrade, and more is constantly being produced. Numerous studies have assessed plastic making its way into food webs, and the potentially fatal effects it can have on organisms around the world; however, only a mere 4 percent of these studies have focused on freshwater systems. While the oceans represent a much larger...
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Recreational and commercial crabbing is open along entire Oregon coast
by ODFW, FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA) and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) announce recreational and commercial crabbing is now open for the entire Oregon Coast, free of restrictions. Crab samples taken from the area of Cape Blanco, north of Port Orford, to the California border indicate that levels of the marine biotoxin domoic acid have dropped below...
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Storms Likely to Blow out Humboldt Rivers
Kenny Priest
by Kenny Priest, JANUARY 31, 2019
Humboldt County Coast

Mother Nature can be so cruel at times. For the first time in nearly a month, the Mad, Van Duzen, and the South Fork of the Eel are all on the verge of turning emerald green. It’s the color that will make any winter steelhead angler giddy. But no sooner will they be in prime shape, rain will once again...
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Niapas Breaks Records at Shasta Pro-Am
by Jason Haley, JANUARY 30, 2019
Shasta Lake

Shasta Lake continued to flex its muscle last weekend during the Wild West Bass Trail (WWBT) Pro-Am that took place Friday-Sunday. We reported on the impressive weights brought to the scales on Day 1, but Day two got even crazier, as Angels Camp angler, Alex Niapas sacked a record-breaking mixed bag that essentially sealed the tournament on Day 2. His 30.22...
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