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I would just like to say Happy Thanksgiving to everyone out there! I hope you’ve all had an excellent year and continued success into the 2017 year. Around here, the water is abundant this fall season. We received plenty of precipitation and snow pack, the rivers are near perfect. So the question is, where are all the steelhead and salmon? This has been the slowest season I have witness since I started guiding in 1994. The Sacramento River population of salmon migration this season was pathetic and reminded of the book by John Steinbeck’s ~ Grapes of Wrath. I wasn’t at the recent DFW meeting regarding closing the upper section of the Lower Sac Hwy 44 to Keswick Dam and eliminating motors and the lot. I say what ever at this point, you all should be ashamed at yourselves at the Bureau of Reclamation and the Dept Of Fisheries, not allowing Coho, Sockeye, Kokanee, Chum, Steelhead access to the colder springs up north of Shasta Dam was a devastating mistake When The dam was built in 1947. In Livingston Stone’s report to Congress in 1896, he said, “The McCloud River was most important part of the year around migration of salmon up the Sacramento River system, he said that the McCloud River was an important refrigerator for the runs that arrived all summer long then.” The Bureau of Rec. cut off the fish and didn’t put in a ladder to get the fish to the badly needed springs up north when they needed it and we are feeling the results years later. I mean how would you feel if you were on your honeymoon and got stranded in Redding or Oroville, California. I would perish too. Something has to be done, it could just be that this is the effect of the drought years we suffered through with little water and decent steelhead runs 2010 through 2013. I think if we don’t do some preventative maintenance we could lose them all someday and be left with only bass.

(It could happen, think of all the species we have already lost.) My advice is if they can do a Keystone pipeline from Canada, why not a huge tube that circumvents Shasta Lake and runs into the bottom of the Upper Sac in the Lower Sac down river from Keswick Dam. I think it could work, the flows on the Upper Sac are around 200 cfs in Oct usually and they could screen off the bottom to Shasta Lake and the minnows could go down the tube of water into the Lower Sac. Sounds crazy doesn’t it? I heard of more crazier these days, it’s worth a look. As far as the steelhead fishing after Thanksgiving, we’re scratching a few, don’t cancel your trips, you’ll see around 0 to 3 adults per boat average both on the Trinity and the Kamath River. That’s why you trust Trout, I’m transparent and I call it like I see it, it doesn’t always make everyone happy around me, but after almost 30 years, I think I’ve paid my dues and know a few things by now respect it. If we can run Nestle out of here off of the lava tube aquafers on the McCloud River and running 200 hundred trucks per day on little HWY 89, we can do some pretty amazing things together. Last seen Nestle was running full speed with their tails between their legs down to the Sacramento valley, where they belong. I wouldn’t never mess with the McCloud River, you’ll end up like Tom Birmingham of the Westland’s Water District, exposed and paying the piper with a $50,000 dollar fine to the Government for Enron like schemes on their trusting investors and the Westland’s company that had to pay $125,000 in fines. I wouldn’t get within 10 feet of investing with that corrupt water district. They banned me from their club, for speaking up for the river, I speak for the river and it’s inhabitants only, we don’t need to lose anymore of the McCloud Or The Upper Sac, believe me I know that’s the only reason the Westland’s Water District bought the Bollibokka Club out from underneath The Nature Conservancy..

We’re Going To Make A Tube For Salmon Around Shasta Lake And We’re Going To Get Los Angeles To Pay For It! Make Salmon Great In America Again!   🙂

 

Back to the Rivers –

Klamath Mouth ~ Another thing that hurt the Klamath River , was the Mouth being closed for extended lengths of time in August, September and October.

Lower Sac Dilemma ~ The Gas Motors On The Lower Sac are not helping Redd populations and future generations of salmon from what I have witnessed. The DFW also uses motors to monitor the redds, they should quit doing it also and get in the river.

Klamath Dams – Dams must come down on the Klamath River, all of them. If we can’t guide the river to wait for it to heal, so be it, take those dams down, the blue green algae and fertilizers are killing the 2nd most important river in California. You need the Klamath to buffer the problems on the Lower Sac, time is of the essence. Take the dams down. 

Upper McCloud River – Reintroduce Bull Trout On The Upper McCloud River.

Respectfully Submitted, jt

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