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Trinidad Harbor, Humboldt County
The opportunistic river otter looks for fish scraps on the charter boat dock in Trinidad.


 



Regulating dangerous fishing practices
California Outdoors Q&A
Carrie Wilson, MARCH 3, 2016



Question: Does CDFW have any regulations restricting anglers from placing their fishing gear in an unsafe manner? For example, a person throws their line out into the water and then places their fishing rod back in a position to where the line stretching to the water runs across an area where runners and walkers using the same beach could become...
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Don’t Let Your Fowl Turn Foul
California Outdoors Q&A
Carrie Wilson, MARCH 3, 2016



Question: I hope you can answer my question about cleaning birds. My friends and I went quail hunting a few weeks ago, and it took us 45 minutes to hike into the area where we hunt. We flushed a large covey of birds, shot two and then continued to hunt singles for several hours. We picked up a few more...
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Search out Warm Water
by Gary Heffley, MARCH 3, 2016
Shasta Lake

Those anglers locating and keying into warmer water temperature locations at Shasta Lake have been producing great results. A wide variety of baits such as spinner baits, drop shot, jigs and Texas rigged worms are all proving successful as long as you find surface temperatures a few degrees above the surrounding water. “Fishing Bob”, located some 56 degree water near...
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Iron Gate Update
Trinity River Fishing
by E.B. Duggan, MARCH 3, 2016

Klamath River

Iron Gate Dam releases are 1,180cfs. Seiad Valley is 5.2ft at 4,250cfs. Happy Camp is estimated at 5,100cfs. Somes Bar is estimated at 9.9Kcfs. Orleans is 9.3ft. at 13.2Kcfs. Klamath at Terwer Creek is 14.9ft at 27.2Kcfs and water temperatures of 48.2 degrees. Flows at Smith River, Dr. Fine Bridge are 9.3ft at 4,620cfs. Temperatures in the Valley last week...
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Trinity Lake Update
Trinity River Fishing
by E.B. Duggan, MARCH 3, 2016

Trinity Lake

The Lake is 134ft (an increase of 5ft.) below the overflow and 35% of capacity (3% increase) Inflow to Trinity Lake is 3,069cfs and the Trinity Dam is releasing 392cfs to Lewiston Lake with 79cfs going to Whiskeytown Lake and on to the Keswick Power Plant with 3,118cfs being released to the Sacramento River.
Good Steelhead
Trinity River Fishing
by E.B. Duggan, MARCH 3, 2016

Klamath River

The Upper-Klamath was seeing some good steelhead and trout fishing all the way down to the Seiad Valley. That could hold if the coming storms do not blow out the upper part of the river. From Happy Camp on down the Klamath has been pretty high and it doesn’t look like that will change for the near term. Orleans is...
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