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Well, it’s king salmon season again and that means I’m gonna be putting some wigglers in the water! If you want to learn a bunch of extremely helpful pro tips, check out my eBook PLUG FISHING FOR RIVER SALMON
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We took JD-Force 1 up today to get a bird’s eye view of the flooding in California. There’s been a lot of talk about the spillway at Oroville Dam lately, but I also wanted to see how the lower end of the system was faring. What we saw was amazing!
Starting with Liberty Island in the North Delta. Look at the debris and the whitewater…
The Rio Vista Bridge looks like it doesn’t have much clearance right now. Lots of homes and businesses on the shore either flooded or getting very close…
Looking down Cache Slough towards Rio Vista. The current speed and amount of debris in the water is staggering…
Hidden Harbor where Steamboat and Cache Sloughs meet..
A closer look at the bottom end of the Liberty Island area, where Prospect and Cache slough meet…
The Wimpy’s and New Hope area of the Mokelumne River, where the houseboats broke loose on Friday. All the house trailers are gone…I hope everybody was able to get out in time…
Apparently, the Deep Water Channel is the only clear water in the state…
Looking north towards the Causeway. The bypass looks like the Amazon…
Unfortunately, there are lots of homes and farms either flooded or getting very close…
Sadly, there will be lots more structures inundated I’m afraid by the time this is all over. Look at the rapids caused by the road…
More properly and structures underwater…
Willow Berm Marina on the Mokelumne River seems to be hanging in there…
A wide, bird’s eye view of Liberty Island. So much junk down there it’s insane…
The hole in the spillway at Oroville Dam is getting bigger (and the lake is filling fast). Here’s some of the best footage I’ve seen of it to give you a better look at the situation!
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The Fishery Foundation of California’s net pen rearing project is literally keeping the Central Valley inland and offshore Chinook fisheries alive! Unfortunately, some brass at both the state and federal fisheries agencies think this is a bad project because it produces too much straying.
Also, some fishermen are against the program too, ignoring the evidence (like 49% of the 2015 salmon fishery off the California coast last year was comprised of truck and net pen reared salmon.
This is a program that we need to strongly support!