Blackberries are ripe on many streams.....

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Heard the blackberries were ripe on the Upper Sacramento River.

In September you can find berries, apples and wild grapes along the cooler banks of many trout and Steelhead streams in the Northwest.

Up on the Oregon coast we eat 3 different kinds of berries in September on some of the coastal streams.

Dungeness crabs should be in the bays and tide waters of the coastal river too.

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About 25 years ago Joe Shirshac and I spent a few weeks on the Klamath River around Orleans in Joe's trailer on fall. Joe always knows some place to stop and pick wormy apples from a deserted property. The last day we filled the ice chest with small wild blue grapes growing along the Klamath.

A month later we went back up with the trailer to the Trinity River. Joe and his wife had made grape jelly with those little grapes and we had it on our peanut butter sandwiches and on our hot cakes.

That's really living.............

[KD]

Nothing like fresh Dungeness boiled in sea water on the beach. I want a time machine.

[Scott V]

When Kathy and I went to Winchester Bay we walked along the south Umpqua and picked wild berries. They were the best berries I have had in my life. We were there in August, I believe it was the coastal fog that rolled in that caused the berries to be so good. I can't express how good they were, it was truly orgasmic, I know it sounds weird but it was probably the best thing I have ever ate and we ate a lot. Brought home enough to give my mom some and we still ate them for about another month.

[oregonsteel]

Here the black berries were ripe on the Upper Sacramento River.

Dear Mr Kiene, the upper sac absolutely has a plethora of tasty berries. One thing that most do not think about, only pick berries ABOVE waste level.

Mount Shasta, at least in the past, had vast strawberry fields. Not sure how many remain.

[Jgoding]

I'll bite.... what's wrong with below waist level berries?? Do they get extra 'flavor' that we should avoid?? The ones on the trinity weren't bad last weekend. My little girl shovelled them in by the handful.

Scott, my brother said something about oregon berries too.... like you could smell them from the road is how good they were....

[Scott V]

I'll bite.... what's wrong with below waist level berries?? Do they get extra 'flavor' that we should avoid?? The ones on the trinity weren't bad last weekend. My little girl shovelled them in by the handful.

Scott, my brother said something about oregon berries too.... like you could smell them from the road is how good they were....

Berries below the waist line have probably been pee'd on by animals and sometimes people. That is what I have been told.

[dickwhite]

Bill, great timing. I was just talking to the kids and wife about finding some berries to pick.

Check out the berry patch at the launch ramp on Lake Britton in Burney Falls State park. These things are too big for pancakes. As big around as your thumb and just as long. Wow.

Great thimble berry and current year here in the Sierra. Goose berries where you can find them before the bears. I had a good raspberry crop in my yard for the first time.

Dick White
Tahoma Meadows.

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

When I was fishing Shad about a month ago above Sunrise I ran into a man and wife who were picking blackberries on the Lower American River.

[Tracy Chimenti]

Don't forget the figs! About a month ago my 9-yr-old son and I were on the Feather for Salmon. It was hot, lunch time, and in our haste to get on the water early, we omitted the lunch. Since we weren't catching any salmon,we took a walk through the Bobolaine Wildlife Sanctuary, above Nicholaus and enjoyed wild grapes, blackberries, and beautiful, purplish figs. Ben had quite a fear of the peculiar lookig fruit, but after he bit into one, he was hooked! We chowed on them all and our stomachs were full! Oh... and we didn't catch a salmon.