The winning technique taking the recent Wild West Bass Trail tournament at Lake Shasta was a float and fly. What? Float and Fly? I have used a float and fly for trout many times with spinning tackle. A torpedo style or water filled bobber trailing a wooly bugger behind it. This can't be the same technique, can it? Nope, but I...
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The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife invite attendees to the Pacific Northwest Sportsmen’s Show to stop by its booth in Hall B by the kid’s trout pond at the Portland Expo Center this week (Feb. 8-12). Buy licenses or tags, view online hunting and fish stocking maps and other ODFW web resources, pick up informational materials on how to...
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The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) will conduct four public workshops throughout Southern California for its Proposition 1 Restoration Grant Programs. CDFW is collaborating with the Wildlife Conservation Board, the Coastal Conservancy and several local conservancies to encourage a wide variety of project proposals within the region. Each three-hour workshop will provide information about the various grants available and...
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Siskiyou Mountain Club is hiring interns to work June 23 - August 30, 2017. Interns work on trails disappearing from the region's federal wilderness areas on four work hitches lasting 10 days each. Interns also participate in an academic program with daily reading and writing assignments. They will take a seven day break from work in July to draft essays, participate...
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It looks like we have more rain in the next week,  but a ray of sunshine for the weekend. The weatherman is saying the coming weekend could be a window of opportunity for some fishing in the Upper Trinity with mostly cloudy in the a.m., and sun in the afternoons. The bad news is that for the following week, there...
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