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I've taken shad in the American, Yuba, Klamath, and Eel Rivers. I also caught one in Humboldt Bay
while perch fishing.

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Hope it rains soon!

I saw a five pound striper taken from Blake Riffle on the Klamath River in the early '70s.

Growing up on the North Coast in the '60s and '70s a major source of frustration among local fly fishermen was the fact that no one was ever able to do well on Smith River steelhead on flies. Lots...

We used to catch shad while fly fishing for salmon in the Eel River once in a while this time of year.

The term "half-pounder" was in general use on the Klamath and Eel Rivers in 1965 when we moved to the North Coast.

This may have been posted here before but I have not seen it. Found this today and there is a wealth of information that you could spend hours going through...Fascinating information about what we...

Drove by Pyramid Lake at Castaic Tuesday and it is absolutely full.....

Nice pictures, some places I recognize from fishing years ago. I was on the Van Duzen this week. I took 3 fish in the stretch where you were asked to leave Monday evening. They were not what I was...

It can seriously rain in those hills. In the winter of 1980/81 a weather station on Gasquet Mountain recorded 262 " inches of rainfall in five months.

In my experience, after having fished and hunted extensively all over California for 50 years, if you saw 2 wardens in 50 days of fishing, that might make the American one of the most heavily...

The lower Klamath River will put out good numbers of BIG winter steelhead in the winter in the years when it is fishable at that time.
In years like 1976 and 1977 there were fish taken in the high...

My Dad started me fishing with a fly rod strip casting worms on Buckeye Creek in Bridgeport Meadows in 1961. I fished that way on Buckeye, the East Walker, and the Owens River in the early '60s. In...

I never made the switch to graphite. Graphite may be better for casting, but glass is so much better when it comes to fighting fish.

Strip casting usually involved short casts, often hook-ups occurred right under the rod tip. Using split shot gentle pick-ups could be felt and most fish were hooked right in the corner of the...

If a fish gets into your backing your odds are really slim of ever getting that fish. Fishing with a hundred feet of running line between my backing and a shooting head, I've taken several hundred...

Larry S,
Strip casting is fishing bait on a fly rod with a fly reel loaded with monofilament. A deadly way to catch trout and steelhead with a worm or a little piece of roe and a few split shot for...

If a fish is taking you into your backing you don't want any kind of loop going through the guides. I'd run the backing into the flyline about a half inch with a needle, have it come out the side of...

Likely America's greatest living writer........IMO

Duck season won't be starting at the Federal refuges.......

Growing up in Eureka we would always start fishing the lower Klamath on the 4th of July, and the fish were in at that time. July fish tended to not be half-pounders, but in the 3 to 6 lb. range. ...

Growing up on the upper reaches of the Smith River the house had an intricate water filtration system.......window screen over the intake to keep leaves, twigs, and frogs out of the system. I've...

Absolutely! I remember fishing a mid-May evening caddis hatch with my Dad in the early '70s. We were doing well, and in the last hour we each took a number of fish in the 14-16" class. Just before...

I've had some 20 fish days in July on the Lower Eel back in the '70s. I've also seen shad caught there in tidewater quite late while salmon fishing in September and October. I took several shad one...

Look at what water rights have done to the Colorado River system. Mexico gets shafted big time since virtually all the water is taken before it gets to Mexico, and hardly any gets to the Gulf of...