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Yellow perch are probably the best tasting freshwater fish I've ever had (beating out crappie and Sacramento perch)-excellent table fair.

Those Klamath River reservoirs (like Copco and Iron Gate)...

Gentleman,

I first have to say that I don’t know which project your tagged salmon came from (the only DWR tagging I know of uses unmarked acoustic tags), but I'll bet that Matt is right about...

CA definitely has a lot of different minnow species... some of which can be tough to ID. That particular fish in the picture is a splittail. You can tell because the mouth is small, slightly...

The Berryessa parasites are a species of copepod commonly known as "Anchor worms." They came into the state with common carp over a 100 years ago. They don't really mess us the meat too badly, as...

Some food for thought, no doubt about it. Another interesting tidbit is that this is the first year that they released a large quantity of freshwater in the FALL, in an attempt to increase smelt...

Alright GENE! That's a nice one. Congratulations

I did a little bit of work down there as an undergrad, looking at the geology of the Tiburon basin, and the rifting going on down there. The Gulf of CA is really the southern-most manifestation of...

Tracy nailed down why the kokes are smaller... Mysis relicta were introduced into the lake in the late 1960's and hammered the zooplankton communities (namely Daphinia, which were native), leaving a...

Gene,
I have fished both from a boat and from shore, and done well from both... that 4-10 ft range seems to be the prime depth for those fish. I have never tried an indicator, so I can't help much...

Just to clarify some stuff...
of the true 'catfish' we have in the Central Valley, almost all of them are channels, flatheads in CA are relegated to the Colorado drainage (and John... flatties eat...

WR,
You have a point, most rainbows spawn in the spring. However, the timing is highly variable, and actually more of a product of water temperature and flow regime than time of year. Putah is a...

Agreed... those fish, especially that one in the middle were spawning. That middle fish appears to be milting all over Brian's hand. Probably a good idea to not fish the LT for a month or so and...

Salmon flies are actually a lot more common than people seem to think. They have one really limiting factor (water quality), that can dictate presence/absence. I have heard of them on a number of...

Adam, nice fish and good advice. That bottom "brownie" looks a tad like a brook trout though...

One problem with the bull trout is their ecology. As a dominant piscivore they require a substantial prey base to support a populations. Since the McCloud is deprived of anadramous salmonines,...

I would seriously check on it. I have been able to take my flies on board SWA flights, as well as all sorts of neat stuff, (including an empty bullet key chain that I forgot about). Then I am a...

I believe Hat Cr, the Little Truckee R and Upper Truck are also designated in places...and prolly a couple others as well that evade me this morning

Contact Roger Bloom with the CDFG, as he is the wold trout program leader, or contact Bill Somer, the cutthroat trout senior biologist. A picture of the brookie would have been invaluable. What was...

Actually caught him on a lakey section with a seal bugger. Much more fun than tiny nymphs in my book and relatively productive.

Fished it today at dusk with an old friend. Caught one that taped at 21", lost another of similar size and had two other strikes. Good day to be out and be fishing.

Good report LC. How was the water level when you were there? I thought Crowley was subject to massive amounts of float tubes as well, a little change isnt bad though.

This segment was in the UT (San Diego). Thought it was pretty cool.

It was a weekend when Windansea Beach found its King of the Beach, and Crowley Lake crowned its Lord of the Fly, and both were...

My girlfriend would love to know the answer to this question. Why I fish has never been a straight answer. Fishing for me started in BC as a youngster with grandpa; then it evolved into catching and...

Personally I like gaffs...

JT...24's? Man I have a hard time getting good hook sets with 20's. Thats icreadable that you can do that. Good report.

As for a ton of large fish in Putah, there are a lot of large fish,...