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Nor Cal’s Eel River: Headed for 100,000 cfs+

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She's gonna get BIG!!


Nnorthern California’s gonna get dumped on this week, effectively washing out the great steelheading that was going on on rivers like the Eel. Check out where the guidance plots say she’s going to go — up over 100,000 cfs — later in the week!

Obviously, it’s going to be awhile before anybody gets back out on the creek!

Oregon aims at developing new Spring Chinook fishery!

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Imagine a springer going airborne through the trees! :)


While California’s Department of Fish & Game seems to largely have given up on providing opportunities for the state’s hunter’s and anglers, our much more progressive neighbors to the North continue to do things to make people want to buy fishing and hunting licenses…

This time, the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife is trying to develop a new springer fishery on the Coast Fork Willamette River, which is a dandy-looking little stream that I always drool over when I drive up I-5.

The department plans on March 12 to release about 210,000 chinook salmon smolts into several reaches of the Coast Fork Willamette downstream of Dorena and Cottage Grove reservoirs to the river’s confluence with the Middle Fork Willamette in Springfield, in hopes of establishing a recreational fishery between Cottage Grove and Springfield. If this initiative is successful, anglers could be pulling adult hatchery spring salmon out of the Coast Fork Willamette when the fish return as adults in 2014.Click here to read more…

Chris Lane wins 2012 Bassmaster Classic

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The Champ (James Overstreet photo)


Chris Lane of Guntersville, Ala., won the Bassmaster Classic Sunday by more than 3 pounds, fending off hard-charging Greg Vinson. Lane’s victory was his second Bassmaster tournament title of 2012. Each came with a qualification for the 2013 Classic.

Lane brought 51 pounds, 6 ounces to the scales over three days to claim the 2012 crown of professional bass fishing and the $500,000 first-place prize. It was his first Classic win.

Vinson, of Wetumpka, Ala., had a 47-15 total. Finishing third was first-day leader Keith Poche of Pike Road, Ala., with 45-15. Fourth was 2008 Classic champ Alton Jones of Woodway, Texas, whose tournament total was 45-14. Ott DeFoe of Knoxville, Tenn., shot from 15th to finish fifth with 44-14. Read the whole story @ Bassmaster.com

Rookie Keith Poche takes Day 1 lead in Bassmaster Classic

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There’s a loooong way to go yet, but Keith Poche, in his first-ever Bassmaster Classic, is sitting atop the leader board….just barely…after day 1 of the event, which is being held in his home state of Louisiana.

Poche weighed in five bass for a total of 17 pounds, 13 ounces, just edging out Greg Vinson, of Wetumpka, AL, who had 17 pounds, 12 ounces. There’s obviously a lot more fishing yet to come in the Classic, so we’ll have to wait and see if Poche’s local knowledge can see him to victory.

Other notables on the leader board include: Edwin Evers in 8th place (16-3); Aaron Martens in 14th (13-14); Alton Jones in 16th (13-13); Kevin VanDam in 27th (11-0) and Michael Iaconelli in 31st (10-7).

Read all the details at Bassmaster.com

Alabama Rig Ban Grows

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Add yet another place to the list of waters where the controversial Alabama Rig is now illegal…all of the freshwater in the state of New Hampshire. The “Live Free or Die” State joins Ohio, Tennessee and Minnesota in banning the rig. It’s also illegal to use in parts of many other states and I’m sure we have not heard the last of this!

Read the story at New Hampshire Fish & Game