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Ah the Trinity Alps! As we move closer to fall I can’t help to think how badly we need rain. Mt Shasta has become naked in her white dress, as barren as the water levels in Shasta Lake. Is this the future? I heard last week the Folsom Water District was being charged $4000 an acre foot for water to their consumers. (residents) That to me is more scary then the snow pack on Mt Shasta.
(What ever happen to the saying, “water is free!”)
I think in the future water will become the most precious resource on earth. Not oil, not gold, not Jerry Hannan’s new CD being recorded right now at PLANT STUDIOS! WATER……!
Now is a good time to have a home on a good well. With people in the world like the Westlands Water District and Tom Birmingham screwing up rivers, creating larger dams and charging the highest amounts possible for water, the future looks grim for families and farmers because of these profiteers that can pretty much charge any amount they want.
They have law makers and Senators buffaloed or paid off, So much so that the Bureau of Reclamation and the Westlands Water District is really one department attached at the hip.
How can they buy water from us for under $100 an acre foot then turn around and sell within our state for a 4000% increase? The residents and farmers of California are being screwed by the actions of corrupt water deals made by law makers and the Westlands Water District in past years. Now those corrupt folks are profiteering bigtime and the Westlands Water District has become the largest and richest water district in the Nation. They even own Bollibokka on the McCloud River so they can raise Shasta Dam 18.5 feet higher and flood
3 to 4 miles more of the McCloud River. Please read the interesting email below from the Wintu Winnemum Indian Tribe of the McCloud River. With the state of low water locally and the way things are heading in the future, how could we ever consider Nestle taking water from the McCloud River Lava tubes. I think we all need to think hard about water and where we are going as a State, how could we have let these water companies from out of the area take advantage of our resources, pay us little or nothing for our water and charge farmers and cities (families) such absorbinate prices. On top of that the Westlands Water District uses ORG on their email domain like they are a non-profit organization….. I tell you folks down south you’re getting screwed bigtime like Nestles is trying to do to us up here now.
“Too much month at the end the water!” Jack Trout
FROM CALEEN SISK FRANCO OF THE WINNEMUM WINTU INDIANS FORMELY OF THE McCLOUD RIVER
Hello all,
I wasn’t sure if you all had received this notice so I am forwarding it to you. If you have a moment please call or write to the congress. We are in great need to be heard and seen in protecting our sacred sites and traditions. Nestles is working to take water from two springs that feed the McCloud River therefore reducing the flow, PG&E is working to add a Hydro plant below the dam on the McCloud River which will kill more fish and at the same time damage more of the McCloud River in their relicensing with FERC, and the Bureau of Reclamation is working to raise Shasta Dam by at least 18.5 feet which will flood 3-4 miles of the lower McCloud and cover up forever our sacred sites we use now. This major disuption and distruction to our traditional area is happening and we don’t have full recognized status to fight back. But if one congress person was to follow their own 1941 Indian Land Acquisition Act (Law) we would have been on that first 1978 list of recognized tribes created by the BIA and we sould rightfully be added to the list now.
Thank you.
Caleen
Water is Sacred! Water is Life! Sawal Mem!
Enough of the real life, lets forget about it all for a while and go fly fishing! Yasmin came up to show all us guys how it’s done! Though most are used to it by now knowing she always out catches everyone. Not for a lack of enthusiasm though, she loves out catching everyone!
Nice trout Sizzler!
This was my first time fly fishing with Billy Shaddox. His father Tom Shaddox fishes with me about four times a year! I was glad to finally meet the kid I heard about on previous outings.
Wow! What a healthy trout!
Tom didn’t land this lunker, but we saw its ginormous length before it spit the hook!
Then the trout went a feed and we caught 6 trout in a 1/2 hour!
Right on Tom Shaddox!! “I want to run through the halls of my high school, I want to scream at the top of my lungs!!!”
We stopped to eat lunch and these geese kept stealing my sammy!
Tom thanks for bringing up the Fam! See you in the fall for steelhead fishing on the Klamath and Trinity!! jt
Jack,
It was a pleasure fishing with you on Sunday. Thanks showing us a good time. It was great to finally meet the man who exposed my dad the greatness of the many rivers in the Mt Shasta area. We fished on Monday on the upper sac and caught a few rainbow juniors who put up a spirited fight. We when download the photos from the trip off the camera I’ll send them your way.
When you have a chance, send me your mailing address, I’d like to send you a couple of my cds. Now that you’re in the concert promoting business, perhaps a gig could be arranged around the next fishing trip to Mt Shasta.
Take care,
Billy Shaddox
Meanwhile, Yasmin was catching so many trout she got a little giddy and started kissing them!
What a great bunch! Thanks again, Jack Trout / Aaron Grabiel
Yasmin hauls in another beauty!! WAY TO GO YASMIN!! YOU’RE MY SIZZLER OF THE WEEK AWARD WINNER!! CONGRATULATIONS SIZZLER!! JACK TROUT
Mario’s first trout on a fly rod, Ladies and Gentlemen!
The first time is always a great adventure! Way to go Mario, I think you like it.. right?
Dry fly fishing on the Upper McCloud in the mornings is great right now. Use a small Adams
Sugar Creek Ranch was fun! Richard Gebhart brought his future daughter-in-law and her brother up to experience a nice day at a private ranch. http://www.sugarcreekranch.com/
Christina trout on!
Richard G trout on!
This is a good place to take a beginner or the young at heart, the trout grow to enormous proportions.
Nice trout Sizzler!
Middle Falls is another favorite of mine mid-summer!
Fish on little dude! jt
You remember my friend Jerry Hannan the musician that played Billy Goats back in August?
Later that same month he was the opener for Huey Lewis and the News! I was so excited for Jerry and Chris Haugen, especially since I was invited to come along and hang out.
JERRY HANNAN http://www.jerryhannan.com CHRIS HAUGEN http://www.chrishaugen.net
PAUL MASON MOUNTAIN WINERY http://www.mountainwinery.com/
After our equipment was loaded, Jerry, Rosanna and I were transported V.I.P’ly to the backstage. It was a fun experience to be a fly on the wall and see for a day and an evening what it’s like to follow around a folk-star!
The Paul Mason Mountain Winery is one of the greatest places to see a concert in California!
The stage is the perfect level for the audience and the sound is incredible. One time I saw Ray Charles here in the 1990’s, it was a classic! This is a picture of Jerry Hannan, Chris Haugen and the Huey Lewis stage & sound crew! What a bunch of nice guys! The best thing I found was everyone was having so much fun, you could just feel between the two bands the energy and the vibe was high altitude – no oxygen!
Backstage the boys were tuning up and getting ready!
Then they called them on stage and the I felt a little nervous for Jerry! I had looked out
at the door moments before and saw that the place was packed with people. I thought to myself, “Were not in Mt Shasta anymore Toto!”
After the first song, “Butter”, they loved them! Jerry Hannan’s music is a mix of satire, folk that meets rock & roll on hwy 101. He sings about funny things you and I are familiar with, including locations and people around the Bay Area and California. He could be singing about your friend, mother or a past girlfriend. The classic words he writes are what make us all love his music and the facial expressions in concert are certainly making him a one of a kind legend in the Bay Area and everywhere else he performs. His sounds are
a bit of Bob Dylan matched with Neil Young’s harmonica and a Robin Williams mind-set when writing his lyrics.
The crowd applauds! Success!! I started to realize my friend of many years had become a star, now having songs in movies you and I are all familar with and the upcoming Sean Penn movie will put him over the top! Check out, INTO THE WILD, COMING OUT ON CD SEPTEMBER 18TH AND THE MOVIE PREMIERS SEPTEMBER 21ST HTTP://www.intothewild.com . I am so proud of my friend who wrote the song Society that Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam sings in the movie. Jerry has also had songs in other movies like, The Pledge with Jack Nicholson. Life without Dick, with Sarah Jessica Parker, the first scene of the movie is Jerry playing a pub! So lets embrace this new star, he deserves it as he is entertaining and making people laugh with his unique and one of a kind music! Jack Trout
Huey came on with the News and rocked the place hard! http://www.hueylewis.com/
Meanwhile, Jerry was up top selling CD’s like a mad man and signing autographs!! I had to help beacuse the lines got thick! Jerry Hannan can be purchased on itunes or at http://www.jerryhannan.com You’ll love him!! I guarantee you will laugh hard at his lyrics and the music is just plain great! No one is like him, add his music to your ipod library you will be a hit at the parties. jt
Huey Lewis looking good! Loves to fly fish and lives out in Montana on his ranch with a river running through it! We plan to fish together someday in the future! I saw this guy in high school in the 80’s and I tell you people he is still young at heart. He
and his entire band and sound crew are there to play all those great hits we all know and love and rock you like he did in the 1980’s. The band was so fun to be around and so down to earth, what a great band you should all check out anytime Huey Lewis and the News are in the area. http://www.hln.org/tourdates.shtml tour dates.
Jerry’s studio is so funny, no wonder the songs turn out the way they do, he’s stark raving mad I tell you folks!
JERRY HANNAN ~ RANCHO NICASIO SEPTEMBER 28TH 2007 3 pm.
http://www.ranchonicasio.com/music.htm
There goes the stagecoach in McCloud for Heritage Days, the original brinks delivery truck!
Oh no a stage robbery! There hasn’t been one of those in McCloud since last Heritage Days!
See you next year! jt
McCloud Soda Shoppe back open!
Mother of the year!
Mother of all trout on the Lower Sac this past week! Way to go Michelle.
In my next life can I be a big trout for real or possible a frog? These trout get more lovin than I do!
P.S. KEEP THIS TROUT AWAY FROM SENATOR CRAIG
YES! We have quite a few pictures. My dad is going to send them to you because they
are on his camera. We had a great time. Aaron was excellent too.
I love those waters you frequent, you are so lucky! Have a wonderful
evening.
Cheers,
Yasmin
EMAILS FROM YOU:
Jack,
Excellent. I’ve heard you on the KNBR fishing show and read your fish reports on Thursdays in the Chron over the years. Thrilled to have a day of fishing with you. Any recommendations on equipment, rod/line weight 5, floating? Cleats on the boots? Neoprene waders or the light material? What do you figure the driving time from SF? Thanks.
Phil Rollins
My wife and I would like to learn the basics of fly fishing and try a guided day trip around Mt Shasta. Do you have any thing that would include this?
Eugene Sanders
Hey Trout!
Hey Trout!
Making contact, nice hanging with y’all at the shows I’m fairly open October & November; maybe we should try stickin a couple big Steelies?
Pals,
Johnny
Hi,
Will be in Northern California during September 30 to
October 5 and would like to do some fly fishing on the
Klamath. Do you have any openings for a day trip? If
not – any suggestions for other guide service? Thank
you.
Al Niebur
Hello:
My name is Juan Vera and I’m from Chile. I am not sure if this is the place
where I am supposed to address this email, but I met a member of your staff
a long time ago that I would like to thank. I believe his name was Jack
Trout. Is that possible? I hope I am not mistaken. I don’t have his card. I
just did a google search by Jack Trout, and this is where it sent me
It was around 1996 or 1997 in Valparaso, Chile in a small fishing bay
(Caleta El Membrillo). I come from a humble family, so I would go there
almost everyday to catch some fish to take home. One day, I was fishing with
a couple of friends, and I saw this “gringo” that was looking at us as we
cought some “Cabinzas.” It seemed that he was very interested in what we
were doing, so I started a conversation with him.
My English was really bad, so basically we communicated with signs.
According to what I understood, he was from the US and would take people
fishing as a job. He gave me his card, and it was there when I believed him.
I just found this kind of job so interesting since I loved fishing, and I
just couldn’t imagen that you could make a living out of it. Nevertheless,
he told me that he practiced a different kind of fishing. It was the first
time in my life that I heard the term fly fishing. He sort of explained it
to me after a series of gestures and repetitions. I was just amazed. The way
he described the activity. All that passion was transferred to me. By that
time, I was 16.
I put a clamp in the hook and I let him fish. He cought 2 or 3 fish. He was
pretty excited and thankful. Right before leaving, he bought me a soda and
gave me some money. Now I understand that it was a tip. I had some how
guided the guy.
I don’t want to extend this email too much. I just want to let that man know
that now I am 27 years old, that learned how to fly fish, that learned
English in College ,and this season I’ll be working for a very important fly
fishing lodge in the Chilean Patagonia. I just fell in love with this
activity that many years ago he described to me.
Probably he doesn’t even remember me at all, but I just feel that I have to
thank him for introducing me to this amazing world of fly fishing. Not many
people have the chance to meet someone that marks their life. This gringo
had an inpact on my life, and , again, I just want to thank him for that.
More people like you are needed in this world. Thank you Jack!
Sincerely,
Juan David Vera Moya, Valpraiso Chile
Hey Jack,
Nice seeing you again the other day. Sorry I had to take off. If Richard had told me we were going up there with some lead time I would have been able to get someone to take care of the animals. Anyway enjoyed the time I had and the kids loved your extra instruction. Just wanted to say thanks.
Take care, Cindy Gebhart
Hi Jack,
Yes, our trip is set. We will be in Dunsmuir September 9-13. We would like
to fish with you on Monday and Tuesday, September 10 and 11. We are fine
with one day float and one day walking as you suggested. Please let me know
the details of where we will be fishing, special gear etc.
Looking forward to a great trip!
Veronica G. Carloni
Hello Friends,
Feeling isolated and disallusioned about the state of the planet and
your role in it?
Yeah…..me too!
Come to this on Saturday and have a great time with a lot of people
who feel the same.
http://www.powertothepeaceful.org/
Michael Franti brings it every time!!!
Spread the word.
I hope to see you there.
Be well,
CW
Thank you Jack for keeping me on your mailing list. The pictures are awsome and it reminds us of the great time we had fishing with you a few years ago. Brendan
Jack
Sorry for this last minute reply to a long-ago email. Our plans were off-again on-again.
They are on now.
Question below is still the same though.
My wife and I are novice flyfishers who are interested in fishing the McCloud either 9/11 or 9/12, although 9/10 is also possible.
Are you available?
Steve Matthews
Jack,
I’m on your newsletter list and love to get them and see all the fun photos of your fishing. I thought you might enjoy seeing this monster trout. Too bad it’s dead. Doesn’t look like it had to work too hard to make a living.
Thanks,
Ron Hickman
World Record Rainbow Trout
Caught on June 5th and weighed on June 6th on a certified scale at 43.6lbs. This is the new World Record Rainbow Trout
caught by twin brothers from Saskatoon at Diefenbaker lake. These guys have been catching lots of BIG fish down there and
previously caught the provincial and Canadian records. Everything grows big in Saskatchewan!!
NEIL YOUNG IS FROM Saskatchewan he is HUGE!! jt~ Oh to live on Sugar Mountain, with the Barker’s and the colored baloons.”
Hi Jack,
Well it turns out my Dad is going to be coming out from England, so it would be very cool to have three generations, Him, me, and my sons James and Daniel.
Are you open either weekends of October 12-14th or 21st ˙ã 23rd . Jack I have not confirmed with him yet, so I am still kicking tires but your photos on the web site look so GREAT! We will defirnitely come before the end of fall.
Regards,
Martin Cooper
Hi Jack.
Somehow your web site is not loading on my computer. Just happened last two weeks. Not sure why?
Thanks for the information about Chile. Madeleine and I are 80% ready to go and working on another couple to join us. Will call you after I get back from Kodiak chasing Silvers on Sept.15th.
Date of Oct. 31st is OK to fish with you. Take us where the fishing would be best. Please confirm.
Cheers
George P.
Jack-
Dave and I will be headed up to fish on the Trinity
with you next month on the 27th and 28th. Would you
give me an idea where we should stay?
Thanks and see you next month.
Scott Jones
Hi Jack,
I≠ writing to let you know that we are still coming to the Mt. Shasta, Lassen area on Sept 25 & 26th. I have made arrangements with Brian at Best Western Tree House to have box lunches on both of these when you do the tour. The group is to meet you at 8:15 am; do you want to meet the group at the hotel? If not, where? If you have a schedule for each of the days, could you e-mail that to me? That way I can let Jane Veneman, our Tour Director will know what is happening.
Thanks,
Chris Misiak
YO! Thanks for message and call last week. I have been on the road since I saw you last. Boston last weekend was cool. I Got some good pics and a few good board mixes of Jerry from Saratoga we will have to hook up and/or I can send you some when I get back. I’m on my way to Santa Barbara until next week. I Should be back in Marin the rest of the month. Your sight looks great I will keep checking it and pass it on. Talk to you soon…DJ.
Jack,
This is one of my favorite weblogs in a long time. For one, the pictures of the people kissing the fish are genius. Another, I love the reference to “The Wizard of Oz.” Seems like you are the wizard of ‘ahhhs’ up there in Mt. Shasta. Also, the email from the 27-year old in Chile touched me. There you have made a difference. Sometimes, we don’t know the difference we make to someone else. To me, his letter is worth more than any kind of monetary reward.
There’s a lot of heart in this blog, Jack.
Hugs,
Tracy
Discord threatens Klamath River water talks
By By David Whitney – McClatchy Washington Bureau
The Sacramento Bee August 12, 2007
Bush administration throws a political monkey wrench into Klamath dam settlement talks.
Discord threatens Klamath River water talks
Klamath: Refuge farms ‘a deal-killer’
Story appeared in MAIN NEWS section, Page A4
http://www.oregonwild.org/press-room/press-clips/klamath-refuge-farms-a-deal-killer/
Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., second from left, testifies July 31 before the House Natural Resources Committee. Listening are, from left, California Reps. Mike Thompson, John Doolittle and Wally Herger. McClatchy Tribune/Chuck Kennedy
WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON — When the House Natural Resources Committee met in July to discuss whether Vice President Dick Cheney had improperly interfered in the battle over Klamath River water, Republicans complained that the hearing could derail negotiations to settle the heated farming vs. fish fight.
“Let’s do what’s best for the fish, farmers, the tribes and the fishermen,” Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., pleaded, with fellow GOP Reps. John Doolittle of Roseville and Wally Herger of Marysville sitting in solidarity with him at the witness table. “Let’s encourage them to find common ground, not rub salt in old wounds when they are so close to an historic agreement of enormous significance.”
But as the projected November deadline for a deal moves steadily nearer, environmental and Indian tribal leaders are raising concerns that the pact that everyone so desperately wants is in danger of slipping away because of what they see as political manipulation.
“Whatever comes out of these negotiations has to have a scientific basis, rather than a political basis,” said Clifford Lyle Marshall, Hoopa Valley Tribe chairman. “There were political strings being pulled before the negotiations started — and they are still in play.”
Critics warn that the evolving 60-year agreement is being shaped by Bush administration officials and is looking more and more like a $250 million-plus gift to irrigators, assuring them of ample water and subsidized power to pump it in exchange for a huge but possibly elusive environmental victory — knocking down four dams on the river.
The hydroelectric dams are owned by Portland, Ore.-based PacifiCorp, which is no longer involved in the talks.
“PacifiCorp hasn’t committed to anything,” said Steve Pedery, spokesman and conservation director for Oregon Wild, an environmental group now excluded from the talks because it wouldn’t sign on to a binding 23-page “settlement framework” in January.
“The framework is what we had to agree to in order to get a seat at the table with PacifiCorp,” Pedery said.
Greg Addington, director of the Klamath Water Users Association and a strong advocate of a negotiated settlement, said he was disappointed that critics are beginning to go public before a deal is done. “I’d hope that we could work these things out amongst ourselves and not in the media,” he said. But he added that even among irrigators there are “big concerns,” despite assurances of water and subsidized power.
“The certainty to irrigators is a value to us,” he said. “But it comes at a cost to us. It is not all roses for us. The settlement, if implemented as it is today, will be painful for us.”
Alex Pitts, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service official, declined comment, other than to say the talks are not being directed by the administration.
Some 26 groups are involved in the secret talks, including representatives of state and federal agencies, local governments, Indian tribes, environmental groups, irrigators and fishing organizations. Participants have signed confidentiality pledges.
The fight over Klamath water is a textbook example of a conflict so complex and long-standing that the best promise for success is a negotiated settlement.
Farmers rely on the same water for irrigation that fishermen and Indian tribes need for the health of fish, and in many years there is too little of it.
Complicating the tensions are federal laws protecting endangered fish and nearly a century of federal policies that drained once-rich wetlands for migratory birds and converted them into irrigation-dependent farmland for homesteaders.
The problems came to a head in 2001 when outraged farmers had their water supply turned off during a prolonged drought to save water for salmon runs.
The tables turned in 2002 when water was restored to farmers while reduced downriver flows of sun-heated water created ideal conditions for the spread of a pathogen that killed an estimated 70,000 salmon.
That massive die-off, the worst in U.S. history, led to a fishery disaster in 2005 and 2006 as commercial fleets along 700 miles of the Pacific Coast were idled to protect the diminished Klamath River run.
Settlement talks began in 2005, about the time PacifiCorp applied to relicense its dams for up to 50 years. Environmentalists want the dams removed to reopen the upper Klamath to salmon.
Several participants said hopes for a balanced agreement began to fade last fall and accelerated with the settlement group’s release of the January framework. Among its many principles, the details of which are now being negotiated, is a pledge to increase minimum water supplies for irrigators, and protect farming operations on the 39,000-acre Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge, where costly pumping drains rich lake-bottom lands for farming.
Environmentalists long have opposed refuge farming, saying places like Tule Lake should be allowed to return to their natural wetlands state. “This was a deal-killer for us,” said Pedery of Oregon Wild. “This is an effort by the Bush administration to lock in agriculture in the refuge.”
Felice Pace of the Klamath Forest Alliance said the deal is looking more and more like a bargain with the devil — the promise of dam removals in exchange for binding water rights for farmers. Also troubling is the decision to virtually exclude California’s Scott and Shasta rivers from the talks even though irrigation demands on them affect 35 percent of the water flowing down the Klamath River, Pace said.
“When and if this settlement happens, the governors of Oregon and California will be there to declare the water wars are over and the Klamath is fixed,” Pace said. “But what commitments are the states making? I’ll be there to protest if the Scott and Shasta rivers are on their current trajectory with no commitments to stop their dewatering.”
About the writer:
The Bee’s David Whitney can be reached at (202) 383-0004 or dwhitney@mcclatchydc.com.
Jack just confirmed with Dusty an Trevor for our fishing trip. Both are looking forward to catching big fish. Will talk to you more next sunday at Elvin Bishop show in Rancho Nacasio. See you then my brother! Thanks Ken.