The old American River Closure and Opener dates

[Mark Kranhold]

Way to many people on the A now fishing for salmon and steelhead. The foreign people are the worst part about all of this, they don’t follow regs, poach and leave shit everywhere! It’s quite frustrating growing up on this river and watching it all go down the crapper. I was on a bike ride on Monday and there were 2 foreigners fishing from the shore where the old gates used to go across below Hazel. There is one group of foreigners in particular that over harvest all day long, I’ve witnessed them taking salmon up to their vehicles and put them in the trunk of their car and come down for more. We need way more policing of this river. Good luck Brian, wish I could remember the old regs. It’s called these things we chat on (internet) hasn’t helped our fisheries either. Thanks

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

In the early 1960s there was no "Howe Avenue Bridge" either.

You could drive into the Watt Avenue Bridge access on the south side of the river and drive on the levee down to Howe Avenue.

Back then you could cross over the lower American river at Watt on a concrete "Low Water Bridge".

It was immediately above the upstream/ north bound bridge on the north side channel.

The man who owned the canoe rental company at that time up at Sunrise? tried to get an oar that went under that bridge and drown.

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I thought the old salmon/steelhead closure was November 15 to December 31 from the cable crossing the river at the Nimbus

hatchery down to the powerlines that cross the river at Ancil Hoffman Park?

The river was open back then from the cable crossing the river at the hatchery upstream to the face of the Nimbus dam?

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