Fishing Articles

No End in Sight
Kenny Priest
by Kenny Priest, MARCH 10, 2016
Eel River

Eel River remains high and muddy from last week’s storms, with no real end in sight. The storms hitting the area now will keep all of these rivers high and muddy for the foreseeable future.

High and Muddy
Kenny Priest
by Kenny Priest, MARCH 10, 2016
Van Duzen River

Van Duzen remains high and muddy from last week’s storms, with no real end in sight. The storms hitting the area now will keep all of these rivers high and muddy for the foreseeable future.

Back Down
Kenny Priest
by Kenny Priest, MARCH 10, 2016
Smith River

The Smith dropped back down to a fishable level on Wednesday, but very few, if any took advantage reports Crescent City guide Mike Coopman. “I didn’t see any boats, and only a few plunkers were out. The reports I heard were that quite a few fresh fish still coming, and good number of downers were in the river as well....
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High and Off Color
Kenny Priest
by Kenny Priest, MARCH 10, 2016
Chetco River

The Chetco remains high and off color following the recent rains, with no green water in sight. Flowing at 9,200 cfs on Wednesday, it’s predicted to peak at nearly 20,000 cfs on Sunday evening. Arcata resident Mike McCasland landed this nice hatchery steelhead on a recent float down the Chetco River. The Chetco, along with most of the coastal rivers, remain...
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Westlands Water District in Hot Water with Securities & Exchange Commission
by Restore the Delta, MARCH 9, 2016
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta

Stockton, CA - The federal Securities and Exchange Commission charged California’s largest agricultural water district today with misleading investors about its financial condition as it issued a $77 million bond offering, with one of its managers bragging about using “a little Enron accounting.” California’s largest agricultural water district misled investors who bought $77 million of municipal bonds by using...
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Klamath River News and Update
Trinity River Fishing
by E.B. Duggan, MARCH 7, 2016
Klamath River

The forecast for the Klamath Chinook salmon season is NOT looking very good for the 2016 salmon season. What with four years of drought, no to very little snow pack and very poor water conditions the projected Klamath River fall Chinook salmon ocean abundance of 142,200 is more like the 1996 returns. We could be looking at very small in-river...
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