Working with The Fish Sniffer certainly has its benefits! I just completed nine intense days that included 7 days of fishing – and – actually catching a ton of fish. The week started out with a long planned trip to … Continued
One of the great things about living in the San Francisco Bay and Delta Region is the many saltwater options you have. You can go fishing for salmon outside the Golden Gate, fish live bait for halibut and striped bass … Continued
CASTRO VALLEY = Francisco Escobar of Castro Valley carefully caught and released a 2.34 lb crappie at Lake Chabot, a new lake record, today, August 16. He landed the fish while fishing a lure near tules. The most consistent fishing available … Continued
Indian massacres, settlers butchered, grizzly attacks and bloodthirsty highwaymen… Growing up I’d heard the stories from the old timers that were born around the turn of the last century. In many cases, anecdotal history was passed down to the old … Continued
Chris King of Los Molinos was fishing with John McGhee, owner of Legal Limit Sportfishing out of Berkeley, when he landed a pending new world record 342 lb. sevengill shark (Notorynchus cepedianus) in San Francisco Bay on July 2, 2017. … Continued
It had taken more than two hours to motor from Berkeley to the Farallon Islands. I snoozed for much of the ride, so I was feeling alert and ready for action when I stepped to the port corner and … Continued
Situated at the edge of the Carson-Iceberg Wilderness, Lake Alpine is one of the most beautiful of the lakes found in the Ebbetts Pass region and Alpine County. Any time you throw a bait, spinner, or fly into the lake’s … Continued
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s “Fishing in the City” program, now in its twenty-fourth year in the Sacramento area, is the best and most needed project that the Department has ever initiated, in my opinion. Created to improve … Continued
The adrenaline seemed to sizzle in my brain. It was the kind of excitement that only saltwater anglers can understand. I was living the dream, helping California Dawn deckhand Mike Verrone work the deck during a wide-open bite right underneath … Continued
I used to really love fishing Davis Lake. It’s close to my home in Reno. I could leave my house and be on an uncrowded lake forested in Ponderosa Pines in about an hour. It used to have a lot … Continued