salmon fishing?

"Bill Kiene" wrote in message
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Hi Louis,

Salmon come into the Sacramento drainage almost year round. We have mostly
"King" salmon with some "Silvers" entering the Klamath and Trinity rivers.

We have endangered "Spring Salmon" or "Springers" that are Kings that come
into some of the Sacramento valley rivers Feb - May.

Starting around the 4th of July we get some small schools of early run
fall
spawning Kings into the valley rivers but because of the limited numbers
and
high heat they are not easily caught on a fly.

As mentioned here in another post, the lower Feather River near Oroville
in
September is the number one place to catch a salmon on a fly in
California.

The furthest south would be the lower American River in Sacramento for
King
salmon in October.

--
Bill Kiene

Kiene's Fly Shop
Sacramento, CA, USA
www.kiene.com




Thanks all especially Sierra Fisher and Bill Klein.
I keep forgetting the whole world reads here! Silly me!
I did mean USA and more specific southern California. I know there is salmon
fishing north of San Francisco but I am in southern CA and as I am not
practiced in fly fishing, the first few times I didn't want to travel far.
Well maybe when I get work up in north CA. Or if I get more proficient
catching a different species first.
Thanks all again.

On Fri, 26 Dec 2003, LOUIS Gu. wrote:

I did mean USA and more specific southern California. I know there is salmon
fishing north of San Francisco but I am in southern CA and as I am not
practiced in fly fishing, the first few times I didn't want to travel far.

Because of the endangered status of steelhead in southern California, it
is illegal to fish in just about any stream. You can fish in rivers
upstream from any dams but basically all other freshwater streams and
rivers that have access to the ocean (and therefore salmon) are closed to
fishing all the time.

Mu

Mu,
You had better check the regulations. You can fish for steelhead in just
about any stream that has them.
Also, unless the dam has a fish ladder , there won't be any steelhead above
the dam, only below it.

The most restrictive regualtion about steelhead, is that in almost every
place, you cannot keep a wild steelhead. I don't know of any place where
you cannot keep hatchery fish.

there are some northern California coastal rivers where you cannot fish if
the water flows are less than a certain level. Your fishing regulations
give you phone numbers to call to see if the streams/rivers have enough
water flow to be open . However, you can fish these rivers regardless of
flow rate after a certain date, which is somewhere about March 1.

There are a few streams that get only a few steelhad every year, and these
may be closed to all fishing.. Possible streams that have closures would be
the Napa, and any coatal stream south of Santa Cruz. Since I do not fish
these strams, I am not up to date on their regulations


"Mu Young Lee" wrote in message
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On Fri, 26 Dec 2003, LOUIS Gu. wrote:

I did mean USA and more specific southern California. I know there is
salmon
fishing north of San Francisco but I am in southern CA and as I am not
practiced in fly fishing, the first few times I didn't want to travel
far.

Because of the endangered status of steelhead in southern California, it
is illegal to fish in just about any stream. You can fish in rivers
upstream from any dams but basically all other freshwater streams and
rivers that have access to the ocean (and therefore salmon) are closed to
fishing all the time.

Mu


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On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Sierra fisher wrote:

Mu,
You had better check the regulations. You can fish for steelhead in just
about any stream that has them.


Louis was asking specifically about southern California streams. As far
as I know, except for Calleguas Creek (which runs year round because of
the run off from lawn sprinklers) all other SoCal waters downstream from a
migratory obstacle are closed to any sort of fishing. Too bad because
there are about 1,000 mullet that hang out under the railroad trestle a
few hundred yards above the mouth of the Ventura River.

Here's a photo of what the Ventura used to yield
http://tinyurl.com/ytklp

Mu


On Fri, 26 Dec 2003, LOUIS Gu. wrote:

I did mean USA and more specific southern California. I know there is
salmon
fishing north of San Francisco but I am in southern CA and as I am not
practiced in fly fishing, the first few times I didn't want to travel
far.

I thought "mullet" was a kind of haircut worn by some athletes and wannabe's
who admire them. Or, does it actually refer to the people who wear the
haircut?

Yuji Sakuma

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"Mu Young Lee" wrote in message
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Too bad because
there are about 1,000 mullet that hang out under the railroad trestle a
few hundred yards above the mouth of the Ventura River.

Here's a photo of what the Ventura used to yield
http://tinyurl.com/ytklp

Mu
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"Yuji Sakuma" wrote in
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I thought "mullet" was a kind of haircut worn by some athletes and
wannabe's who admire them. Or, does it actually refer to the people
who wear the haircut?

Yuji Sakuma



Mullet are both fish and coiffure, athleticism is not required. On the
contrary, it is often counter indicative as the prefferred tucker of the
mullet sporting Aussie is usually very high in calorific content -
usually far in excess of his output.


Steve

I the fish obviously predated the haircut . The haircut is out of fashion
now and is the butt of jokes but I first noticed it being sported by
American baseball players, Eckersley for one, maybe 10-15 years ago. Any
idea how a haircut came to be named after a fish, or was it named for
something else? Just curious.

Yuji Sakuma

On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Yuji Sakuma wrote:

I thought "mullet" was a kind of haircut worn by some athletes and wannabe's
who admire them. Or, does it actually refer to the people who wear the
haircut?

The mullet found on the west coast of the US may reach sizes up to 3 feet.
They are very strong fighters and typically jump repeatedly. Lots of fun
but very hard to hook. They are hyper-spooky.

Mu

Mu,
I apologize. I did not catch that you were referring to Southern
California. I read California, not southern CA.
Sorry, JFk


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On Fri, 26 Dec 2003, LOUIS Gu. wrote:

I did mean USA and more specific southern California. I know there is
salmon
fishing north of San Francisco but I am in southern CA and as I am not
practiced in fly fishing, the first few times I didn't want to travel
far.

Because of the endangered status of steelhead in southern California, it
is illegal to fish in just about any stream. You can fish in rivers
upstream from any dams but basically all other freshwater streams and
rivers that have access to the ocean (and therefore salmon) are closed to
fishing all the time.

Mu


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On Sat, 27 Dec 2003, Sierra fisher wrote:

I did not catch that you were referring to Southern California.

That's OK. Speaking of southern Steelhead though, some friends of mine
used to catch them in Malibu Creek up until the closure. I think most
anglers who know what a steelhead is would find it surprising that you
could find them in Malibu. Two years ago a kid caught one from the beach.

Mu