**HOLIDAY GIFT CERTIFICATES AVAILABLE ON ALL RIVERS, THE PRFECT GIFT FOR ANY FISHER-PERSON!** Mt Shasta and her hat: When the lenticulars occur on top of Mt Shasta, a storm is soon to follow! Sure enough within 48 hours the area was hit with rain, snow and wind. Have you ever pondered how nature can give us signals that changeable weather lies ahead? Mt Shasta gives a lenticular cloud, a tsunami pulls the ocean lines and tides in to epic proportions before unleashing it's will. Some animals can detect earthquakes and hurricanes before they happen (Possible a volcano with an upset stomach!). I noticed this year that many blackberries from the Klamath River down to the Trinity River yielded record amounts of berry growth from the rains we received this past year but never ripened. Could this mean we're in for a big winter? I think it's interesting by being one with nature and animals, and trying to understanding the hints and signs that are right under our noses. (Or just turn on the weather channel!) Steelhead Bob Cadematori2: I always like when "Bob Cat" Cadematori comes up from the San Joaquin Valley! Bob's son Tia, you remember was out in 2002 down from Oregon Duckland. Bobcat had a marvelous day that started out a little cold! Cold day at the office: There was snow in the hills and the morning air was right in there at 39 degrees. I was armed with my new thermas given as a present from past customer Rick Holt! Thanks Rick, "it was richness worth a second cup!" Would like to congradulate Coach Pat Hill of the Fresno State Bull Dogs for almost pulling the biggest upset ever in college football history. Those Fresno State Bull Dogs are the best team USC has played in 33 games and it's amazing that a school that is so small can be so successful year after year! It must be you Coach Pat Hill, your my hero! I guarantee it was the hardest hitting team USC faces every year they play! USC won the game but Fresno State won the battle. Fresno State Bull Dogs football team are the college mascot team of mtshasta.com (Why you ask? Attitude!) Right on Sizzlers! Loved that big win against Virginia last year in that 2004 computer bowl game. Fresno State Bull Dogs are a team you should remember! Coach Pat Hill come fish with me after the season is over, I need a motivational pep talk and you need a trout break! jt Bob Cat 2005: Bobcat is a quick setter on those steelies and reels in another catch! Steelhead Bob Cadematori: You shine you crazy diamond! stories in the net!: That's my favorite dot net! Bob Cats friend: What's better than being out fly fishing with friends! Bob Cats friend: LIVING LARGE FOLKS! Latte Time!: Iceberg-Straight-Ahead! No that's not snow! That's the result of decaying algae, it looks like a foamed latte to me. Rick Holt fish on!: Lynn White had a marvelous day out on the Klamath River! Rick Holt fish 2005: Lynn was a great guy to be with out on the river. He was on a catching frenzy that day with numbers well into the double digits. Rick Holt fish n fun: More fun! Lynn White happy Day: Our lunch at the Fish Hook was great! We then headed back out and the fishing after lunch was even better! Lynn White Group: Mike, I had a fun time with you have good fishing over Thanksgiving, I'm heading with Michelle and the kids over to introduce her to my family.(That should be interesting!~) If your going to fish the Klamath on Thanksgiving day, use eggs, Red Copper Johns, October Caddis, Fox Pupa, etc. Good luck and stay to the left most of the time! Jaime Hargrave Time!: When Jaime Hargrave brought his buddies out fishing the steelhead started to tremble! Jaime Hargrave with a chubbie!: This is why I do it! After 14 years fulltime, it's pictures like this one that makes it all worth while. Not that it isn't the best job anyone could have, I look forward to another 14 more! jt Jaime Hargrave Sizzler of the Week!: But the picture says a thousand words! Jaime Hargrave, you're Sizzler of th week! CONGRADULATIONS SIZZLER! NICE 7 LBER!! Matt Hill s group: Here's Matt Hill with his two characters! Matt Hill and I have been friends for over 10 years! Fine day out on the river: Aaron Greener is above me with a fish on! Dan Leder: Right on Dan Leder! The 49ers sure could use you! A team!: Nothing like fish on, baby! Aaron Greener: Aaron and his group had a great day! Steelhead Time! 2005: Matt Hill and I out for fun trip! November 18th 2005: Mt Shasta is always an awesome site, especially in the winter months! **TAKE CARE SIZZLERS, STAY TUNE AS WE VISIT THE LOWER SAC, TRINITY AND THE KLAMATH. MANY RIVERS TO YOU, JACK TROUT** HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!

OTHER NOTES:

Restore the Klamath. Fix the World. Klamath Restoration Council News and Information Network http://www.klamathrestoration.org/ Posted by Byron Leydecker Environmental Working Group Response to Westlandsí presidentís Op-ED - Bakersfield Californian

Westland's Water Subsidies More Corporate Welfare

Posted: Friday October 28th, 2005, 10:00 PM Last Updated: Friday October 28th, 2005, 10:00 PM

In his recent Community Voices column, the president of Westlands Water District blasted Environmental Working Group's investigation of the district's proposed federal water subsidies contract.

We agree with Jean Sagouspe on one point: Our agenda -- to price federal Central Valley Project water more fairly and equitably -- should concern every taxpayer. But a number of his assertions demand correction:

EWG has "a long history of anti-farming activities." Only if that means we believe water and crop subsidies should go to the family farmers they were meant to help, not well-off agribusiness corporations. Our investigations have exposed that the great majority of subsidies go to the biggest and richest farms, and that these billions in corporate welfare are helping push small farmers off the land.

Making irrigation districts pay more for water would "make California more dependent on foreign-grown food." Fewer than 10 percent of California farmers receive federal water subsidies, yet the state is by far the nation's largest food producer. About one- third of Westlands' acreage is not in food crops but cotton -- a commodity in such surplus its price had to be propped up by $1.6 billion in subsidies last year.

Under the new contract, Westlands will be entitled to receive exactly the same amount of water." It is true that the old and new contracts promise Westlands 1.15 million acre-feet a year. But that is far more than the state's precipitation and the CVP can reliably provide. New long-term contracts were an opportunity make contracted amounts conform to reality.

Instead, the Bureau of Reclamation has drawn up a detailed schedule showing how it will deliver the full contract amount by 2030. Westlands is promised "full delivery" even though drainage problems could force hundreds of thousands of acres to be taken out of production.

Westlands is made up of "600 family farming operations." There are small family farms in Westlands. There are also dozens of large, diversified operations that divide their holdings to get around the law that says farms larger than 960 acres are ineligible for subsidized water. According to UC Berkeley farm economist David Sunding, the 10 largest common ownership groups in Westlands hold one- sixth of the district's 600,000 acres.

For example, the Woolf Enterprises empire includes 10 or more companies controlled by two dozen family members spanning three generations. By our calculations, Woolf-controlled operations received $3.5 million to $4.2 million in water subsidies in 2002, and about $4 million in federal crop subsidies from 1995 to 2003. It is a family operation, but so is Ford Motor Co. Why should this family expect taxpayers to prop up a business model that depends on artificially low rates for water and artificially high prices for its products?

Sagouspe closes by warning that EWG's "falsehoods and fallacies" hurt the credibility of the environmental movement. Maybe he should ask whether Westlands' disingenuous attempts to hide its dependence on corporate welfare behind the image of the family farmer are hurting the credibility of California agriculture.

(Bill Walker is vice president of the Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit research organization with offices in Oakland and Washington, D.C. Community Voices is an expanded commentary that may contain up to 500 words. The Californian reserves the right to reprint commentaries in all formats, including on its Web page.)

Byron Leydecker, Chair, Friends of Trinity River Consultant, California Trout, Inc.

PO Box 2327 Mill Valley, CA 94942-2327 415 383 4810 ph 415 383 9562 fx bwl3@comcast.net bleydecker@stanfordalumni.org (secondary) http://www.fotr.org http://caltrout.org

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