Fishing Articles

If you caught a salmon in 2016, you can thank GGSA. Others helped, but we almost certainly would not have had an ocean fishing season last year without the extra trucking of hatchery fish GGSA convinced the hatcheries to do in 2014.   We know it wasn't a great season for many, but at least we fished! Same goes for this coming year, 2017, where again...
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The Sacramento River is receiving a boost of water releases from Keswick Dam this week, presumably because of the amount of rainfall the region has received since October.  As Shasta Lake reaches 45' feet below full pool, water managers began to release 10,000 cfs on the 21st from 5,000 cfs which has essentially taken the flows back to the summer...
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The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife wants to make it easy for anglers to kick off the fishing new year with a free fishing weekend on Dec. 31 and Jan. 1. On Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 31 and Jan. 1, fishing, crabbing and clamming in Oregon will be free. That means no licenses, tags or endorsements are needed on those...
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As of January 1, 2017, anglers fishing for bottomfish will be required to have on board their vessel, a functional descending device. So for the last two issues of On The Water, I featured several rockfish recompression devices which included the BlackTip recompression device ($49.99; presently on sale for $9.55), the Shelton Fish Descender ($6.00) and the SeaQualizer ($55.00). There are three other...
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