Okay, so it may look like the home of those fuzzy little guys in Return of the Jedi, but this is actually the new bridge being built over the South Fork of the Eel River at Confusion Hill in Humboldt County, CA.
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April 2008
Yea, it’s April and most Northern California steelhead streams are closed…but there are a few places still open where you can get a last-minute cure for your jones…
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If you’ve ever fished for spring Chinook, you know that they’re straight-up kookey. Sometimes, they’ll bite like piranhas and other times…you can’t buy a bite to save your life.
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Our bud and FLW Tour pro, Big Fred Contaoi of Orange County Choppers had a solid showing this week at the second FLW Tour stop of the year. At Alabama’s Lewis Smith Lake, where anglers had to switch from sight fishing largemouth on beds to working deeper water for spotts (and back again), Big Fred hung tough and walked away with a check for $2,000.
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While there’s plenty of gloom and doom regarding salmon populations on the West Coast, one bright spot appears to be the Columbia River, where over a quarter of a million spring Chinook salmon are expected return to Columbia this year.
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While I’ve never been a big fan of the hatchery “round-tailed” rainbow trout that get planted in waters throughout the West, I have to say that the Donaldson strain rainbows of Nor. Cal’s Lake Amador (and other places) are extremely cool “truck trout.”
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St. Croix hits the kokanee market with the Premier PC76LM rod.
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Okay, you guys are going to have to step it up a bit if you want to take this week’s Name that Fish contest and win a pack of DOA Lures jerk shad.
This one is a two-parter that originally appeared in an April Fool’s gag I did for a major fishing magazine a while back….
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