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The only “river” in California that isn’t bone dry…What The??

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While driving to and from Southern California this week, it was hard not to be thoroughly outraged by seeing the California Aqueduct bank to bank with water…while every other river in the state is at or near historic lows!

Apparently, we’re not holding a whole lot back when it comes to Southern water deliveries!

Here’s another unsettling visual: Pyramid Lake, just north of LA (which receives water from Nor Cal), brim-full…

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Now, compare that to Folsom Reservoir on the American River system…

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In review: CA Aqueduct…

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And then you have the Sacramento River and all its salmon spawning beds left high and dry…

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Something isn’t right here, folks! I’m just saying…

One thing we can all do to help is to join the Golden Gate Salmon Association which is fighting hard for us to keep enough water in Nor Cal so that our fish runs can flourish.

Pyramid Lake produces pending line class world record cutthroat trout

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Robin's gotta get get some bonus points for the hat!


The fact that you can be just one cast away from glory on any given day is one of the things that makes fishing so damn cool. Just ask Robin J. Wood Sr. of Modesto, CA, who was fishing Pyramid Lake, Nevada on February 5, 2011 when he hooked into this beast of a lahontan cutthroat trout…which at 17 pounds, 4 ounces, is a pending IGFA 20-pound test line class world record.

The huge cutty bit a Blue Fox spoon and took 15 minutes to land…which is saying something, considering these fish aren’t the world’s greatest scrappers. Assuming all the paperwork goes through okay, Wood’s fish will easily best the current IGFA 20-pound record of 11 pounds, 6 ounces.