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When the lenticulars occur on top of Mt Shasta, a storm is soon to follow! Sure enough within 48 hours the area was hit with rain, snow and wind. Have you ever pondered how nature can give us signals that changeable weather lies ahead? Mt Shasta gives a lenticular cloud, a tsunami pulls the ocean lines and tides in to epic proportions before unleashing it’s will. Some animals can detect earthquakes and hurricanes before they happen (Possible a volcano with an upset stomach!). I noticed this year that many blackberries from the Klamath River down to the Trinity River yielded record amounts of berry growth from the rains we received this past year but never ripened. Could this mean we’re in for a big winter? I think it’s interesting by being one with nature and animals, and trying to understanding the hints and signs that are right under our noses. (Or just turn on the weather channel!)

I always like when “Bob Cat” Cadematori comes up from the San Joaquin Valley! Bob’s son Tia, you remember was out in 2002 down from Oregon Duckland. Bobcat had a marvelous day that started out a little cold!

There was snow in the hills and the morning air was right in there at 39 degrees. I was armed with my new thermas given as a present from past customer Rick Holt! Thanks Rick, “it was richness worth a second cup!” Would like to congradulate Coach Pat Hill of the Fresno State Bull Dogs for almost pulling the biggest upset ever in college football history. Those Fresno State Bull Dogs are the best team USC has played in 33 games and it’s amazing that a school that is so small can be so successful year after year! It must be you Coach Pat Hill, your my hero! I guarantee it was the hardest hitting team USC faces every year they play! USC won the game but Fresno State won the battle. Fresno State Bull Dogs football team are the college mascot team of mtshasta.com (Why you ask? Attitude!) Right on Sizzlers! Loved that big win against Virginia last year in that 2004 computer bowl game. Fresno State Bull Dogs are a team you should remember! Coach Pat Hill come fish with me after the season is over, I need a motivational pep talk and you need a trout break! jt

Bobcat is a quick setter on those steelies and reels in another catch!

You shine you crazy diamond!

That’s my favorite dot net!

What’s better than being out fly fishing with friends!

LIVING LARGE FOLKS!

Iceberg-Straight-Ahead! No that’s not snow! That’s the result of decaying algae, it looks like a foamed latte to me.

Lynn White had a marvelous day out on the Klamath River!

Lynn was a great guy to be with out on the river. He was on a catching frenzy that day with numbers well into the double digits.

More fun!

Our lunch at the Fish Hook was great! We then headed back out and the fishing after lunch was even better!

Mike, I had a fun time with you have good fishing over Thanksgiving, I’m heading with Michelle and the kids over to introduce her to my family.(That should be interesting!~) If your going to fish the Klamath on Thanksgiving day, use eggs, Red Copper Johns, October Caddis, Fox Pupa, etc. Good luck and stay to the left most of the time!

When Jaime Hargrave brought his buddies out fishing the steelhead started to tremble!

This is why I do it! After 14 years fulltime, it’s pictures like this one that makes it all worth while. Not that it isn’t the best job anyone could have, I look forward to another 14 more! jt

But the picture says a thousand words! Jaime Hargrave, you’re Sizzler of th week! CONGRADULATIONS SIZZLER! NICE 7 LBER!!

Here’s Matt Hill with his two characters! Matt Hill and I have been friends for over 10 years!

Aaron Greener is above me with a fish on!

Right on Dan Leder! The 49ers sure could use you!

Nothing like fish on, baby!

Aaron and his group had a great day!

Matt Hill and I out for fun trip!

Mt Shasta is always an awesome site, especially in the winter months! *****TAKE CARE SIZZLERS, STAY TUNE AS WE VISIT THE LOWER SAC, TRINITY AND THE KLAMATH. MANY RIVERS TO YOU, JACK TROUT***** HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!

OTHER NOTES:

Restore the Klamath. Fix the World.
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Posted by Byron Leydecker
Environmental Working Group Response to Westlandsí presidentís Op-ED – Bakersfield Californian

Westland’s Water Subsidies More Corporate Welfare

Posted: Friday October 28th, 2005, 10:00 PM Last Updated: Friday October
28th, 2005, 10:00 PM

In his recent Community Voices column, the president of Westlands
Water District blasted Environmental Working Group’s investigation
of the district’s proposed federal water subsidies contract.

We agree with Jean Sagouspe on one point: Our agenda — to price
federal Central Valley Project water more fairly and equitably —
should concern every taxpayer. But a number of his assertions
demand correction:

EWG has “a long history of anti-farming activities.” Only if that
means we believe water and crop subsidies should go to the family
farmers they were meant to help, not well-off agribusiness
corporations. Our investigations have exposed that the great
majority of subsidies go to the biggest and richest farms, and that
these billions in corporate welfare are helping push small farmers
off the land.

Making irrigation districts pay more for water would “make
California more dependent on foreign-grown food.” Fewer than 10
percent of California farmers receive federal water subsidies, yet the
state is by far the nation’s largest food producer. About one- third of
Westlands’ acreage is not in food crops but cotton — a commodity in
such surplus its price had to be propped up by $1.6 billion in
subsidies last year.

Under the new contract, Westlands will be entitled to receive exactly
the same amount of water.” It is true that the old and new contracts
promise Westlands 1.15 million acre-feet a year. But that is far more
than the state’s precipitation and the CVP can reliably provide. New
long-term contracts were an opportunity make contracted amounts
conform to reality.

Instead, the Bureau of Reclamation has drawn up a detailed schedule
showing how it will deliver the full contract amount by 2030.
Westlands is promised “full delivery” even though drainage
problems could force hundreds of thousands of acres to be taken out
of production.

Westlands is made up of “600 family farming operations.” There are
small family farms in Westlands. There are also dozens of large,
diversified operations that divide their holdings to get around the
law that says farms larger than 960 acres are ineligible for subsidized
water. According to UC Berkeley farm economist David Sunding, the
10 largest common ownership groups in Westlands hold one- sixth
of the district’s 600,000 acres.

For example, the Woolf Enterprises empire includes 10 or more
companies controlled by two dozen family members spanning three
generations. By our calculations, Woolf-controlled operations
received $3.5 million to $4.2 million in water subsidies in 2002, and
about $4 million in federal crop subsidies from 1995 to 2003. It is a
family operation, but so is Ford Motor Co. Why should this family
expect taxpayers to prop up a business model that depends on
artificially low rates for water and artificially high prices for its
products?

Sagouspe closes by warning that EWG’s “falsehoods and fallacies”
hurt the credibility of the environmental movement. Maybe he
should ask whether Westlands’ disingenuous attempts to hide its
dependence on corporate welfare behind the image of the family
farmer are hurting the credibility of California agriculture.

(Bill Walker is vice president of the Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit
research organization with offices in Oakland and Washington, D.C. Community
Voices is an expanded commentary that may contain up to 500 words. The
Californian reserves the right to reprint commentaries in all formats, including on
its Web page.)

Byron Leydecker,
Chair, Friends of Trinity River
Consultant, California Trout, Inc.

PO Box 2327
Mill Valley, CA 94942-2327
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bwl3@comcast.net
bleydecker@stanfordalumni.org (secondary)
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