Here’s a little video I shot to kinda get you started understanding how float fishing for salmon & steelhead works…
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Salmon
Well, the water mongers in California are at it again! Thanks to theThe Golden Gate Salmon Associationfor a heads up on this one!
The Bureau of Reclamation, the California Department of Water Resources, the San Joaquin water contractors and others recently signed a Memorandum of Agreement which turns over most of the control of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan to the water exporters. The BDCP is a scheme to vastly increase the export of water from the Delta via a peripheral canal masquerading as a Habitat Conservation Plan. It is an end run around state and federal endangered species acts by providing water exporters with 50-year no-surprise guarantees that no additional requirements will be required, even if the project fails miserably and fisheries and water quality continue to decline.
One of the most onerous provisions would give the water contractors control of the science reports on the impact of the canal project on fisheries. They would have the right to edit and change the reports of the fishery agencies. To see the proposed sign on letter click HERE
Congressmen Miller, Thompson, Matsui, McNerney and Garamendi protested this secret deal that excluded the public. In response, USBR and DWR announced a very abbreviated 15-day public comment period ending November 16th. We are responding to that comment period.
IMPORTANT!: HERE’S WHAT YOU CAN DO:
Write a complaint letter to Secretary Salazar. For a sample, click HERE Set your letter up as an email and send it to [email protected]
Thank you for your participation. Please respond by November 11th and forward this request to others who will also respond. . We are hopeful a strong protest will turn this situation around.
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You know me…I’m always a sucker for a good kid fishing pic! So, it was impossible for me not to post this photo of super cute Alexandra Martin, 7, of Brookings, OR, and her first-ever king salmon, a 15-pounder. Alexandra caught the fish Sept. 18 on the Coquille River on the Oregon Coast while fishing with her father, guide Andy Martin of Wild Rivers Fishing.
And that, my friends, is how you get yourself a fishing buddy for life! Good job Alex & Andy!
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In just two weeks, fewer than a thousand voters in the remote Lake and Peninsula Borough of Alaska could decide the fate of the gigantic Pebble mine prospect, which if approved, could be the most devastating development project in Alaska history.
Read more at the Anchorage Daily News and keep your fingers crossed that the world’s richest salmon drainage doesn’t get snuffed out by the mighty dollar…made by folks from a different country, by the way!
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Good Advice!
There are few lures that are guaranteed to catch fish. But if you follow the instructions of the back of the package of a Buzz Bomb, you can’t go wrong. Wish it was always this simple!
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Maybe Ron Howard could make the movie "Alaskan Graffiti!"
Yes, even in Alaska you’ll find that the local kids have gotten loose with a spray can. I found this little gem, the latest in our occasional series “Rattle Can Prophets,” under the highway bridge over Salonie Creek.
Hmmm…wonder what the kids do under the bridge??
Insider’s tip: we have some super secret sections of this website that don’t appear in the menus. Kinda like when you order a burger “Animal style” at In & Out…you gotta know it’s there! So, to see more Rattle Can Prophets river graffiti, simply type “prophets” into the search bar at the top right. Shhhhhhh!
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I think I can...I think I can...I know I can!
Here’s a little preview of a little movie I will have posted here in the not-so-distant future called “The Salmon of Normandy Creek.” In Alaska, we stumbled onto this tiny little stream that dumped into the sea over a sandy beach. With each wave on the high tide, salmon would streak out of the ocean, across the skinny beach and into the little creek.
There was danger at every turn for these guys as they stormed the beach and it was like living a Discovery Channel show…very cool! Watch for the movie here sometime soon!
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There are some new regulations coming down the pipe regarding egg cures in Oregon. Studies have apparently shown that eggs cured with too much sodium sulfite can kill salmon and steelhead smolts that ingest them so major cure manufacturers have agreed to lighten up on the ingredient.
Read more at the Mail Tribune
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