Several incidents around Southern California with coyotes prompted the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to issue the following release: Due to a recent increase in the number of human/coyote incidents in Southern California, residents should be particularly vigilant in watching...
Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and Chevrolet! The younger kids probably don’t know what the in the name of James Madison am I talking about? But if you’re a forty-something (or more) like me you remember that catchy jingle that was...
The drought’s lingering effects through four years of scant rainfall in California has done a number on the state’s fish hatcheries. None has been hit harder than the American River and Nimbus hatcheries near Sacramento. Once again, as the California Department...
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Our correspondent Steve Carson provided this nugget about a massive catfish catch: Marlon Meade of Anaheim bested this huge 57.9-pound blue catfish at Irvine Lake, using shrimp and cheese-flavor Berkley Catfish Dip on a 2/0 Owner Hook and a Shakespeare...
From the California Department of Fish and Wildlife The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) completed its 2015 waterfowl breeding population survey. The CDFW survey, which uses methodology approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), indicates the...