The weather has changed now to cold mornings, bring along the thermos and heater while you're at it! The snow has come early this year but seems to be melting as quickly as it falls. I would highly suggest to anyone coming this way to travel in a vehicle with 4 wheel drive. Buy your chains if you're coming this way. If you have no access to a 4 wheel drive, you should know it is very common for our area to sell out of chains. Check with Caltrans information at 1-800-427-ROAD . I 5 is always opened quickly and this shouldn't detour you from visiting us in Mt Shasta. We just want you to be safe in these current weather conditions. We went out the other day to the Klamath River to fly fish for some winter steelhead. Before Thanksgiving we had 10 days of no rain or snow. I was excited because I knew this weather moves steelhead up into our neck of the woods!
Mike Wright and his dad came to visit me from Sonora this past week. Right off the bat they hooked into two nice adult steelhead! He commented, "Dad I like the size and the fight of these fish in Siskiyou County!"
Nice Steelhead Mike, look forward to seeing you on my raft trip in the spring. Thanks again for coming up and catching a few with me! I'm sure glad we have the heaters in the boat!!!jt
Over on the Trinity, Mike Hibbard and Jim Roberts are out with Brach Rick and Jack Taylor fly fishing California's steelhead jewel river. Brach is down from Issaquah, Washington fly fishing the Trinity for the very first time!
Brach displays his fine catch indeed! Steelhead are like snowflakes, each snowflakes is a perfect individual crystal, in which no two snow flakes are ever alike. Steelhead are the same and this is why they need to continue to be protected.(A bit maudlin aren't I)
Wow! What a great snawser! Brach Rick you are most certainly SIZZLER OF THE WEEK! CONGRATULATIONS SIZZLER! JT, MIKE HIBBARD AND JIM ROBERTS
Brach what an epic adventure with two of the best guides in California!! Yahooooooo! and Gogggggggggle me chubbies!!!! That's ^&$*$(&_*+'n great!!!
Shasta the legendary trout dog! Here's a picture I took of her at Little Falls on the McCloud River. Just a few yards down is the secret local trail to Big Springs on the Hearst Estate. Shasta and I use to love adventuring down the river banks of the Upper McCloud down where many people never venture! Oh, do I miss those days with her. She is still in my dreams, dear to my heart and I look forward to one day joining her and our favorite cat Lamb-Chop!**TAKE CARE FOLKS, STAY TUNED FOR PICS FROM THE LOWER SAC AND THAT TERRIFIC DEC EGG BITE. ASK US ABOUT OUR DECEMBER 4 PACK GIFT CERTIFICATES. THANKS FOR WATCHING! MANY RIVERS TO YOU, JACK TROUT
More Notes: Free salmon spawning tours offered
by Nathan Rushton, 11/25/2005
From eggs to spawning adults, the life cycle of the salmon is one of the most remarkable events in nature.
Redwood National and Redwood State parks, along with San Francisco-based Save-the-Redwoods League, are offering free guided tours to witness the annual fall migration of spawning salmon in several area creeks.
The weekend driving tours are scheduled to begin Saturday in the Mill Creek watershed and Sunday in the Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park.
During the Mill Creek tour, participants will car pool in their own vehicles on gravel roads to selected locations.
Visitors will learn why Mill Creek is regarded as one of Californiaís most ecologically significant areas and the top productive stream for Coho salmon, according to a news release.
Thanksgiving through December is the best time to see Chinook salmon and Christmas through January is the best time to see Coho salmon, according to scientists.
Five Chinook salmon have been recently seen building nests, or ìredds,î in the upper 19-mile portion of Prairie Creek, according to an e-mail regarding the tours from Walter Duffy, a U.S. Geologic Survey scientist with the California Cooperative Research Unit at Humboldt State University.
Salmon are anadromous, which means adults migrate from the ocean to the freshwater streams where they were born to spawn and die. Chinook are the largest of the salmon species and can grow to more than 100 pounds in weight. Returning Coho adults can grow to more than two feet in length and weigh an average of 8 pounds, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Marine Fisheries Web site.
Prairie Creek tour participants will drive to the various locations, then park and hike along the redwood trails to several prime viewing spots.
For both areas, walking short distances over uneven ground may be required.
Because the tours will be conducted ìrain or shineî when water conditions allow, organizers are recommending that participants wear wet-weather gear, sturdy hiking shoes and polarized glasses for the best viewing of the fish.
If conditions permit, the three-hour weekend tours will continue through December.
To register for the Mill Creek tours, phone (707) 464-6101, ext. 5064, or sign up at the parkís Visitors Center at 1111 Second St. in Crescent City.
To register for the Prairie Creek tours, phone (707) 464-6101, ext. 5300, or visit the Visitors Center at Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. Klamath Restoration Council has no affiliation whatsoever with the originator of this article nor is PelicanNetwork endorsed or sponsored by the originator.) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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