Willow Creek guide Ed Duggan starts out his message today with the announcement that the California Fish and Game Commission has approved the proposed Klamath Trinity fishing regulations at their meeting in Ontario.
The new regulations are, hopefully, to go into effect August 15 for the lower Klamath and September 1 for the Trinity and upper Klamath. It is now in the Administrative Law of the Department of Fish and Game for final review and publication,? he pointed out.
The proposed regulations before the DFG Commission:
1. Three Fall Chinook per day with no more than two adults with nine in possession and no more than six adults.
2. Two hatchery steelhead per day with no more than four in possession.
3. Spring salmon two per day with four in possession for the Lower Klamath (below Weitchpec Bridge until August 15. No retention above the bridge until Sept. 1st. No retention of salmon on the Trinity below the South Fork. Two salmon per day with four in possession above the South Fork and up to Lewiston.
Ed goes on to say that these regulations are set to go into effect on the above listed dates. Refer to the DFG web site if you have any questions. This is great news and if they get
He concludes by thanking all those for their support in the campaign and says we will try again next year to make some minor changes to the regulations that will help improve fishing opportunities.
Most From Your Gas
With boaters facing record high fuel prices this summer Boat Owners Association of the United States (BoatU.S.) has a few tips that could help stretch their fuel dollars.
1. Leave the extra ?junk? home. Don?t load the boat up with weight you don?t need. Do a little spring cleaning ? unused equipment that has been collecting mildew in the bottom of lockers for years should be taken home.
2. Water weight. At 8.33 pounds per gallon, why keep the water in the tank topped offif you?re only going out for the afternoon.
3. Tune her up. An engine tune-up is an excellent investment and should easily pay for itself over the summer.
4. Tune your prop. If your boat goes 30 mph with a like-new prop and only 27 mph with a prop that?s dinged and out of pitch, that?s a 10 percent loss in fuel economy, or you?re wasting one out of every ten gallons you put in your tank.
5. Paint the boat?s bottom. When boating in salt or brackish waters a fouled bottom is like a dull knife. It takes a lot more fuel to push your boat through the water.
Don Terbush is a North Coast fishing freelance writer and a retired Times-Standard Sports Editor. He can be reached at sports@times-standard.com.
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