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It will help fill the lake, and in April it will start to drop a foot a day for aquaculture watering in the valley and drinking water for the millions that drink the stuff. I quit drinking water when I found out what fish do in it

Here are some pictures of the Sacramento river below my house, The river has come up 10-12' in last last 36 hours. With the heavy rains we had, it has melted the snow up above me which has brought up the river. Then two pictures of Shasta Lake at the harbor where I keep my houseboat. All the water in the river and lake at this point is brown. It will be a few days for it to clear all up, to the emerald green blue we are use to.

The lake is 20 miles south of my house. The lake has come up so fast it tore out 300 feet of dock, that is now floating towards the dam another 20 miles south

Good job Mike and JR. you guys have some weird fish out there

After 3 tours in Viet Nam myself , watching a movie today called "TAKING CHANCE " has showed me how much this country has changed in the last 33 years. If you get a chance to watch this great movie , please don't miss this one. It is a true story of a Marine coming home.

TAKING CHANCE

Thanks for a great story. Makes one look around a little different at life . Thanks Tom for sharing your story as well

Mick thanks for bring that to my attention , it has been corrected , slip of the left hand thanks

After all these months of reading your post, thought I would drop this on you. Before they

closed our salmon fishing in the ocean, I have fished the Pacific since I was a boy with my dad and grandfather. One of the top producers we used in the ocean was a Mepp's Giant Killer. The two top colors for us, where the orange, chartreuse. The top spoon was the superior, it comes in a 50/50 brass and silver, also the straight silver. Now just in the last couple of years the 6"Grand Slam Buck Tail has been added to the arsenal . If they ever open it up again to the anglers out here. So this year I will be fishing for Kings and Coho's out of Washington state

Great Job guys , the old drift boat just might have to come out of the barn

I will have to second that one, I love my burt's rod holders

Bob I thought you where taller and thinner and more hair

Ok Raymond

I run Cannon mag 20s on my boat. I am just trying to get more lines out with the rods (poles ) I have now. Kokanee are a small fish , even in the ocean a big Sockeye only reaches 6 to 7 lbs.

Andy you will love it. I love the one I have. They fitted the mast to my bow seat pedistil

and added a 1' extension to get over my canvas top.

Now I was thinking of the small dollar size dipsy divers, most kokanee fishing is in the 39 to 65' level .

Here on the west coast and other parts of the country, the Sockeye has been introduced

to fresh water lakes . Then then are called Kokanee Salmon. Here in California a 3lb Kokanee is a monster. My question is -do you think I could use steel line rod with a dipsy diver to catch them on ? In the past they have not be big enough or heavy enough to trip the dipsy. Any suggestions would be appreciated please

Thirsty, drought-suffering Californians will get just what they desperately need the next few days from a lumbering Pacific low headed slowly inland. The first to bear the brunt of this approaching storm tonight through Sunday will be Northern California?s Siskiyous and Coastal Ranges, the area in the most severe drought right now.

Winter storm warnings have been hoisted for these areas through Sunday afternoon above 2500 feet, including Mt. Shasta, where a couple of feet of snow may pile up by Sunday evening. Ironically in this drought-stricken area, below 2500 feet, heavy rain may trigger local flash flooding and mudslides through Sunday night, particularly north of the Bay Area.

High wind warnings were also posted for the Santa Cruz Mountains northward to the East Bay hills, where south winds may gust to 60 mph, at times, as the storm pulls toward the coast tonight into Sunday morning.

This front may temporarily stall over Northern California during the day Sunday, bringing periods of heavy precipitation from the central coast northward into the Sierra and Siskiyous. Burn areas of the Santa Cruz Mountains and the Big Sur may see some mudslides or debris flows, as the heaviest rainfall near the Bay Area targets southwest facing mountain slopes. From 1-2? of rain is expected in San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose.

Monday, this storm?s heaviest rain and mountain snow will take aim on Southern California and the southern Sierra. From 1-3? of rain can be expected in coastal and valley locations of Southern California. Flash flooding, is a very real threat, particularly in burn areas. Mudslides and debris flows may occur. Heavy snow on the order of 1-2 feet may make travel difficult by Monday afternoon and evening in the Southland mountains.

Elsewhere, lighter snow and rain will dampen parts of the Pacific Northwest. Snow levels may be as low as 1000-1500 feet in the Columbia River Basin of eastern Washington and northeast Oregon.

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If this wasn?t a Valentine?s Day weekend, punctuated by one of NASCAR?s biggest events of the year, perhaps the soaking Gulf Coast rain may be thought of in a more positive light.

After all, much of this region needs the rain. Moderate drought has spread from Texas along the I-10 corridor as far east as Pensacola, Fla. Moderate drought also covers parts of central and south Florida, including Tampa/St. Petersburg and Miami.

The first round of rain dumped almost 4? in New Orleans, which was their heaviest rain event in almost 6 weeks. Street flooding was reported in Waveland, Miss.

Now, a second disturbance riding the subtropical jet stream will reactivate this rainy zone through Sunday from the Upper Texas Coast to Florida. Rainfall amounts from 1 to 2?, with locally higher amounts, can be expected from southern Louisiana to northern Florida.

Unfortunately, this also includes Daytona International Speedway, site of Sunday?s Daytona 500. While rain spared the Nationwide race Saturday, this aforementioned second wave of rain looks poised to disrupt Sunday?s festivities.

Unfortunately, little rain can be expected in the most dire drought areas both in Texas and in Upstate South Carolina and western North Carolina.

That said, some light snow may fall Sunday evening into Monday morning in parts of the Carolinas and southern Virginia. Any accumulations at this time, on the order of a dusting to an inch, look most likely in the Smoky Mountains.

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Cold high pressure will exert its will over much of the nation?s mid-section rounding out the Valentine?s Day weekend.

Memories of the record warmth from earlier this week will be just that?memories. Highs Sunday will remain stuck in the teens in North Dakota and northern Minnesota. Twenty degrees will be all the mercury can climb to in the Twin Cities. Thirties will chill those in Indianapolis and St. Louis.

An area of light snow will slowly spread across North Dakota and northern Minnesota Sunday, eventually blanketing parts of northern Wisconsin and Michigan?s Upper Peninsula Monday.

A more significant snowstorm may take aim on the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Tuesday night into Wednesday.

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High pressure building in from the Upper Midwest will maintain stubborn northwest winds Sunday. That said, temperatures won?t be all that cold, relative to mid-February averages. Highs will range from the 20s in Upstate New York and northern New England to the middle 40s in the Middle Atlantic States.

Calm, tranquil weather will dominate the first part of the work week as the Midwest high shifts over the region. However, a potential winter storm lurks in the distance Wednesday into Thursday.

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Why is it these holidays are so important to woman? And guys it's just another day we can not go fishing . The price we have to pay to cook our own meals, get the house cleaned and the laundry done. Kind of like looking for gold , you never find the one that was there when you just dated them. They get a taste of that wedding cake and it's all down hill from there..........

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this will make you feel better

hope this day brings you all you wish for

I just bought this dvd, anyone seen it yet?

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hey thanks guys

Ray that finger thing ,could you write up a description of step by step on it please

Happy Birthday from the west coast, or as you guys say the left coast

Happy birthday old Buddie, may you get all you wish for.

Sheriff: 1 dead, 100-plus rescued from Lake Erie

OAK HARBOR, Ohio – One person who was among those stuck Saturday on a miles-wide slab of ice that floated away from the Ohio shoreline of Lake Erie has died, while more than 100 others were rescued, authorities said.

The victim fell into the water while searching with others for a link to the shoreline, Ottawa County sheriff Bob Bratton said. Others tried CPR before the person was flown to a hospital and pronounced dead, Bratton said.

Several ships and helicopters from Toledo and Marblehead, and from Detroit, were sent to rescue the people from the 8-mile-wide ice floe. He said 100 to 125 were rescued by late afternoon.

Authorities said fishermen apparently used wooden pallets to create a bridge over a crack in the ice so they could go farther out on the lake Saturday morning. But the planks fell into the water when the ice shifted, stranding the fishermen about 1,000 yards off shore.

Ice on western sections of Lake Erie is up to 2 feet thick, National Weather Service meteorologist Bill Randel said. He said it started to crack as temperatures rose above freezing this weekend and wind gusting to 35 mph pushed on the ice.

"The ice just separated and we didn't even know," Rich Strickland of Bowling Green, who was among those rescued, told the Port Clinton News Herald.

Mike Sanger of Milwaukee was in the area for walleye fishing.

"We were having a good time and when it got to be time to come home, it wasn't so good," he told the newspaper after being rescued.

Ice fisherman who regularly visit the lake have said this winter's thick ice has lured more people to the lake this year.

"There was a heck of a city out there for the last week and a half, two weeks," said 71-year-old Oak Harbor resident Peter Harrison, who has lived on the shore for 40 years.

Ohio Division of Wildlife spokeswoman Jamey Graham said the state annually warns fishermen that there's no such thing as "safe ice."

Even in very cold weather, the ice on western Lake Erie is often unsafe because currents can easily cause the ice to shift. Firefighters in communities along the lake are trained for rescues from the ice and are often on guard when temperatures rise.

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I could hear the pipe playing all the way out here in California as you walked aboard.

Congratulations