Thanks for the report JL! I was wondering when the "best time" is on the Yuba (and/or other rivers?) this Fall to be able to SEE the salmon in the river? Most of you are going to laugh at me for this--- because I like to flyfish-- don't get me wrong-- and one of my favorite things is to actually watch the fish swimming in the rivers themselves!
Soo- that said, I am wondering if this weekend is a good one to go see some salmon or will the next few weeks be better? I'd appreciate any advice on this from anyone out there who knows. Thanks!
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October will be great. You can pull off the HWY 20 bridge on the east/south side, drive back under the bridge so you're upstream and watch from on high, or you can get down along the shore anywhere below the bridge and you'll see plenty. If you do that though, stay off the redds (clean gravel in the river) where the salmon are. That's the nursery and you don't want to step on the babies!
If you fish putah in oct. or nov. you can stop by the solano lake diversion dam and sometimes there will be a few there. Didn't see any last year but saw 6 the year before. On a nother note, Has anyone heard of the "frankenfish" Its a genetically altered salmon that grows twice as fast as a normal salmon. I guess this is there answer to the salmon crisis. Pretty disgusting.
-- Edited by shon42073 on Tuesday 21st of September 2010 07:04:32 AM
I saw that on the news last night about the "frankenfish". That's pretty scary stuff. They're talking about "IF" the FDA says the fish are safe for human consumption, then should they have to label them on the package as "genetically altered". I sure as heck would want to know!
if you type in frankenfish salmon on google.com the first fish that comes up is that massive 85lb salmon carcass that was found on battle creek. That was not an altered salmon, after then disected that salmon and did all the tests on it, that was a full on WILD SALMON. kinda nice to know there are still out there and being that big. Hope that guy spawned.
Here is one link on that big 85lber http://www.redding.com/news/2008/nov/04/07/
pretty cool.
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