Fishing Articles

Shad fishing is beginning to take shape on the Sacramento River as evidenced by this outstanding fish caught on the fly by Summer Moore of Redding.  Most of the action is currently in the Colusa and Glenn county area as the shad make the move upstream to spawn.  While I yet to fish for shad I am told the fishing is...
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The Halibut bite is on in San Francisco Bay. On what was a planned family and friends rock fishing charter on the Sea Wolf out of Emeryville Marina, the gratefully amended trip onto San Francisco Bay produced great results. Last year, on the Friday before Memorial Day we enjoyed relatively calm seas rock fishing around the Farallon Islands, scoring easy limits...
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Now that the Trinity River water releases are back on schedule, we saw high water flows in the Willow Creek area of Big Rock and Kimtu Beach. (5,475cfs) This was not the best water flows for a Memorial Day Weekend but with the light showers we didn’t see a large turnout on the river. Instead there was a fare showing...
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With Summer not yet here and the Lake front empty, we’re going back to Spring hours until we get boats on the Lake. Store Hours:    Sunday thru Saturday – 8:00am to 6:00pm Café Hours:      Sunday thru Saturday – 8:00am to 4:00pm – CLOSED WEDNESDAYS   We sure were hoping to have boats on the water for Memorial Weekend, but alas, with the continuing snow...
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Fall Chinook salmon returning to the Chetco are on the decline, and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is proposing some pretty drastic cutbacks. In a press release issued on Monday, the ODFW is proposing temporary harvest limits and closures for coastal wild fall chinook fisheries due to low escapement in 2018 and poor forecasts for this year. Preseason...
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Although they spend their lives hidden beneath the surface, fish are directly affected by the weather happening outside their aquatic world. This is particularly true of species that rely on watersheds in regions like California, where the availability of water changes dramatically with the seasons. As climate change threatens to shift historical patterns in temperature and rain- and snowfall, scientists...
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