Nothing like getting all sentimental about a fish on the brink. Absence making the heart fonder with the “P” factor – some deep political agenda in some codicil of parchment from a Mexican land grant.
Now that the California Chinook is a couple seasons away from being a genome hidden in a long bank of drawers buried [...]

I always suspected golfers had an extra chromosome or two – what with their fondness for flashy plaids and saddle shoes, and if you play in Florida that risk goes double …
… but it pales in comparison to my compulsion for brightly colored yarns, how I squeal in glee over some fellow’s Czech nymph that [...]

It started with some small pretense of fairness, Senator Feinstein’s call for a review of the environmental opinion on the Sacramento Delta, an effort to ferret out the “flawed science” that dared put fish before the needs of farms and her pals at the Westland’s Water district.
… while most of us fishermen assumed it [...]

It didn’t work back in the Sixties, when J. Edgar and his G-Men encouraged academics to rename the lowly “Egbert Carp” to “Grass Carp” as it’s known today.
The conservatives figured it would end the Hippy movement, with the participants lulled into toking away on a bowl of fish spleen …
… it didn’t work too [...]

After a two year ban on commercial fishing the result is another large drop in the fall Chinook run. 2008 was the record low for returning fish, and it appears that 2009 will be lower still.
More troubling is what few fish returning are mostly hatchery fish and it appears the wild Chinook of Oregon [...]

Those giddy days of Halloween television,  Ma insisted you were too young to watch a pissed humanoid water breather slime its way through the streets preying on the unwary, dragging screaming female teens into the cold bosom of a nearby bay …
… there to perform unimaginable and completely horrific unknown rituals on their taut … flesh [...]

The ringtone belonged to “Deep Walnut”, the Yolo county landowner I’d turned to the side of righteousness. The pleasantries were brief, and I was informed that the annual “crop report” outlining the sins of watery tomatoes had been secreted on the grounds of my residence.
Sure it’s a touch over the top, but in a [...]

It appears the much promised Armageddon over water rights will be showcased as a result of the Asian Carp migration, and the respective legal teams will include eight or nine US states and at least one foreign government.
The New York Times is running a short piece describing the long list of participants, and the [...]

It’s only a blip on my radar, and  few are losing sleep over a dirty little dustbowl lined with “Quad” tracks.
This morning commences the Cache Creek Aggregate Producers Breakfast, where they’ll be attired in top hats and too-tight vests, an abundance of hearty backslaps and thick cheroots, and some environmental pipsqueak trying to be heard [...]

On the heels of safe sex comes “safe angling.” No condoms here as you’re already sheathed in rubber …
It’s toxin-free angling with hook, line, and sinkers all biodegradable or pose a diminished hazard to ducks, geese, fish, small children, and pets. Kits comprised of circle hooks, lead-free sinkers, and protein enriched biodegradable rubber worms.
… [...]