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Roger Mammon, President of the California Striped Bass Association (CSBA) West Delta Chapter, testifies at the California Fish and Game Commission meeting in Sacramento on August 7, 2019. Photo by...

RANCHO CORDOVA – This has been a slow year for salmon fishing on the American River. Very few anglers are still fishing in the section of river open to fishing from the SMUD powerline at the...

By Stacy Barawed I’d been wanting to book a trip with Captain Jonathon Smith and his crew for a while now, so when an opening became available on Sunday’s rockfish and crab combo on the Happy Hooker,...

R.I.P. Robert Light, the Delta cartoonist whose Rio Life was published regularly in the Rio Vista River News, recently passed away. He spoke truth to power. He predicted exactly what would happen...

By Kevin Hofer When the leaves begin to change, the days get shorter, nights get cooler this is my cue to get the kayak up to the Sierras before the snow comes and closes it off for the winter. I’ve...

By Cal Kellogg If you are a serious angler, getting skunked from time to time is part of the game, but you don’t have to like it! A few weeks back I attended the Norcal Angler’s Challenge Trout...

The PG&E shutoffs of power to over 2 million people in recent weeks, including those of Fish Sniffer staff, readers and advertisers, have made our lives very difficult in northern and central...

New state water plan would increase water exports*by 373,000 acre feet per year on average The Gavin Newsom Administration on November 21 announced two separate but related actions*that will have a...

We run a Helix 9 on the Sniffer Duckworth. I have been a Lowrance guy for 20 years, but have been super impressed with the Humminbird unit.


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Rob Cetinich*of San Jose had a fantastic day on November 3 when he won first place in the adult division of the two-day NorCal Trout Anglers Challenge (NTAC) event at Collins Lake by landing the...

Nick Ingram of San Jose holds up a brightly colored vermilion rockfish caught on a swimbait on light tackle off the Big Sur coast aboard the Kahuna out of Moss Landing.*Photo by DAN BACHER, Fish...

Conservation, environmental justice and*public interest groups on November 8 responded with outrage to an Associated Press*report that Secretary David Bernhardt’s Interior Department is poised to...

Awesome. Here with the Boy Scouts today to get them on some trout. Your pics are inspiring to a young group of kids.


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  By Mark Fong A quick snap of the rod tip sent my small swimbait toward its target. Letting the bait fall through the water column, I methodically counted it down to 35 feet before closing the bail...

By Cal Kellogg Fall trout fishing is exploding throughout the Sierras and things are starting to pop in the foothills too at places like Collins Lake and New Melones. My most recent trout fishing...

SAN FRANCISCO — The federal government, led by former Westlands Water District and oil industry lobbyist and current Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, on October 22 released a new set of...

Folsom is full of pike minnows. I’ve caught a couple over 5# chasing kings in the convergence area.

The trout bite should pop soon. Water temps are sill a bit warm.


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The Delta smelt, once the most abundant fish in the entire Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, has come closer and closer to extinction in the wild in recent years. In the first month of the fall...

I take advantage of every rod we can legally run, and frequently run 6 when the kids are on the boat. One thing that greatly helps prevent issues with double stacks on the downriggers and a pair of...

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE – Legendary Lake Tahoe, straddling the state line between*California*and*Nevada at an elevation of 6,225*feet, is a lake of superlatives and California state gamefish records. It is...

By Stacy Barawed As I was reeling harder than I’d ever reeled before, I heard a man’s voice over my shoulder. “No matter how hard you try,” he muttered, “you’re never gonna catch that fish…” I...

By Wes Ward The attention span of a twelve-year-old is about a tenth of how long it takes to read the title of this article, which can make fishing with my twelve-year-old son, Jacob, a painful...

The planning for the State Water Project Contract Amendment for the Delta Tunnel under the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta*continues, despite the fact that the project has not yet been approved....

By Mike McNeilly If you haven’t noticed, Pyramid Lake is getting a ton of ink these days. I’m one of the guys who can’t stop writing about it. If you are sick of reading about Pyramid Lake, and...