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Rumors of scarcity were overblown someone else exerted a prior claim
Having just finished the National Wildlife Federation’s report on global warming, and how half of our cold water fisheries will vanish in the next eighty years, I was content that the conservation...
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The Brass lining of what is likely be a journal of a drought year
We had a brief taste in the Seventies where the drought became so all encompassing as to draw a halt to most outdoor pursuits, and 2014 is looking dire for California anglers. Only about sixty days...
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Cloudy with a chance of Sunburn
I didn’t think it possible to incur a sunburn in February. The notion that mornings are chill and by midday you’re peeling everything you carefully layered earlier, suggests less of explainable science...
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Wherein “reduced dressing” refers to your sudden lust for an Xtra-Strong 12
The local farm journal is bemoaning vines and trees budding earlier than normal. Early nut and vine crops are a bigger issue given the drought and the increased salinity of the Delta, whose waters are...
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Slingblade says, “Like Coors .. it’s the water”
I was asked about the pending Turkey season and what was the local outlook, and while I typically hover around fish I do cover a lot of unkempt and out-of-the-way turf, as getting to the water without...
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While many complain about the Lack, I shift my attentions to the Plenty
The drought and its unrelenting grip on the weather remind us of the absence of many things; moisture in any form, fishing of every type, and how Fall is being kept at arm’s length, denying us even a...
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I’ll settle for the Purple Unknown
Managed to sneak out briefly to scout the latest round of unseasonable weather. Drought has a way of upsetting all the normal timetables, and this year is proving no different. The creek is already...
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The problem of the few is how they keep getting fewer
There’s enough latitude in “fishless fishing” to blame lack of success on a plethora of unsavory possibilities. Water too cold, fish too lethargic, too warm, too bright, drunken revelers heaving...
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Imagine what they found when the Red Sea Parted
It’s the consequence of attempting lemonade when handed lemons, no matter how sour. Uncooperative fish, warming water, triple digit daytime temperatures, lingering drought, and a hound that requires...
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Dances With SODDEN TENNIS Balls
I keep telling myself that learning a lake in mid drought is akin to building sand castles in the surf; just about the time you mark the downed timber and rock piles – some unseasonable storm erases...
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We shake off the preseason stiffness
The nature of scouting is like pre-season exhibition games, you’re working out all the kinks from what should become a well oiled machine. Of late we’ve received a generous amount of moisture – keeping...
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How Misery surely Loves company
With the exception of male models in carefully creased fishing vests hawking angling gear in magazines, I’ve been reluctant to piss on fellow members of the angling brotherhood. Ditto for television...
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