Ok trollers pay close attention: You think you know what’s going on down around your downrigger? Think again! I shot this video last summer and fall while chasing rainbows, king salmon and kokanee in various lakes around Nor Cal. Interesting stuff…
I snapped this underwater shot of pink salmon this summer in Alaska & just thought it was kinda cool. By the looks of things down there, a salmon stream isn’t so different from the 405 Freeway afterall…
Big Fred and I headed to a local pond yesterday for a little ultralight trout fishing…and while the catching was a blast…you know me…I was having even more fun playing with the cameras. Underwater stuff can be a bit of a crapshoot, but here are a few shots that are kinda fun… [click to continue…]
Hey, that's a weird-looking boluder...oh, wait a second...
So, there’s some new striper habitat in the American River…
Fortunately, nobody was inside the vehicle…it was stolen and then driven into the river around the beginning of the month. Flows were so raging that it traveled a few miles downstream from Rosssmoor Bar to its current “parking spot” near Ancil Hoffman Park. Park rangers have been waiting for the flows to drop to facilitate a safe removal of the vehicle.
Okay, so maybe this wasn’t the shot I had in mind of an underwater steelhead, but a nanosecond’s hesitation with my shutter button finger resulted in this…a super cool perspective that reminds me of a fighter jet buzzing a tower…or, with the way that dorsal is cutting the water, maybe a shark patrolling a beach, looking for surfers.
Unfortunately, I’m not a skilled enough photographer to have considered this vantage point ahead of time, but sometimes, as they say, it’s better to be lucky than good…
Forget El Nino, drought, climate change, giant squid, water diversions, overfishing and bad forestry practices. The boys over at AnglersTube have discovered the real reason salmon populations in the West are crashing! Kidding of course…
Be sure to watch it all the way to the end of the clip for a happy ending!
Okay, so maybe California’s Pacific salmon have gone into the tank…but at least there’s one population of salmon in the state that seems healthy — the kokanee of Taylor Creek. I was there a week or so back and snapped a few pix… [click to continue…]
Hey pal, do you mind? We’re trying to reproduce here! Okay, so it was kinda rude to stick my camera into these koke’s bedroom, but the shot came out pretty cool. These kokanee salmon were spawning in California’s Taylor Creek, which is a trib to Lake Tahoe. With the koke spawn just about ready to get underway, you owe it to yourself to stop by the creek if you happen to be near South Lake Tahoe this fall. [click to continue…]