Fishing Articles

Snowpack Below Average Despite Gains
by Department of Water Resources, FEBRUARY 4, 2018

Despite moderate January precipitation in the Sierra Nevada after an historically dry December, this week's Department of Water Resources (DWR) manual snow survey east of Sacramento found little snowpack there, two months into what is typically California’s wettest three months. Measurements at Phillips Station revealed a snow water equivalent (SWE) of 2.6 inches, 14 percent of the early-February average at Phillips as measured there...
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Pacific Herring Arrive in Crescent City in Full Force
Southern Oregon
by Larry Ellis, FEBRUARY 3, 2018
Chetco River

Fishermen - start your sabikis! Pacific herring have made their annual appearance on January 31 in Del Norte Harbor in Crescent City, but they arrived in full force on February 1. "Today was the big day," said Loren Taylor from Englund Marine Supply in Crescent City on Thursday. "They're big and they're in there pretty thick." Hordes of Pacific herring were being...
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Commission meets Feb. 9 in Portland to consider uplisting marbled murrelets
by ODFW, FEBRUARY 3, 2018

The Fish and Wildlife Commission will host a reception Thursday, Feb. 8 at the Pacific Northwest Sportsmen’s Show in Portland and then meet Friday, Feb. 9 at the Sheraton Hotel, Portland Airport, 8235 NE Airport Way. Thursday’s reception is in the Green Theater at Portland Expo from 4:30-5:30 p.m. and is a great opportunity to meet Commission members, ODFW Director Curt...
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Whiskeytown Lake Kokanee bait
by Jeff Goodwin, FEBRUARY 2, 2018
Whiskeytown Lake

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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Entire Oregon coast now open for crabbing
by ODFW, FEBRUARY 2, 2018

The Oregon Department of Agriculture and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife announce that recreational crabbing is now open from Cape Blanco, north of Port Orford, to the California border. Crab samples taken from the area indicate that levels of the marine biotoxin domoic acid have dropped below the alert level. Commercial crabbers in this area can set gear for a...
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Mojave River Hatchery in San Bernardino County Reopens after Major Renovation
by CDFW, FEBRUARY 2, 2018

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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