Sure I offered to help … myself

If they’d only let me know I’d have been happy to help. Now that all the rain swollen creeks around my place are starting to recede, it’s revealing all the navigationally challenged animals that climbed out of the murky Sacramento and attempted to ascend my beloved Brownline …

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They intercepted this rare Green Sturgeon just shy of the mouth of the Little Stinking, and when I asked could I borrow it, they got all huffy and short tempered. The idea of six foot of prehistoric prey attempting to melt aluminum being irresistible to me…

There were quite a few salmon, striped bass, and sturgeon stranded in the Yolo Bypass upstream of me, the above scene was Fish & Game attempting a rescue – given that once the water dried up, everything would perish.

Maybe next year I’ll wade down there and fling a Ghost Shrimp on a 6/0 treble, just to see what breaks first.

3 thoughts on “Sure I offered to help … myself

  1. JP2

    Welllll,reading the article,it seems the folks on the ground know what needs to be done. Sadly, the folks with their head up their,uh,brownline control the money and make the decsions.

  2. Igneous Rock

    There is still the slight chance that the cowboy hat in the middle, having professed his undying love, is caught at the moment of a desperate lunge to save the object of his desire! You know…something a worm drowner would do. Ahem! coff!

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