Conservation

I would like two tickets for the July dinner. I will send a check  need address? Richard  Holubek Thank You

I have a guide, a car, and room reservations for two days on the Rogue in Oregon, September 20 and 21. I would like a fishing buddy. Interested? Call me at 650-233-2720.

Conservation: PFF Trout in the Classroom                                February 14, 2017
Or “How to return more fish to the water than you catch”.

Les Junge is the chairperson for the PFF “Trout in the Classroom” program. Through this program young kids have their first shared experience with the “wild” in California outdoors. Through a classroom experience of hatching eggs and coordinated learning activities, students experience firsthand the value of aquatic environments, the balance in life that must be exercised to preserve and maintain the aquatic habitats. Plus, how their personal actions affect these valuable resources.

Les, teachers, and the students set up a chilled aquarium in the classroom. They receive fish eggs under a special CDFW permit, and observe, discuss, and learn about the fish and their environment as they hatch and develop. The experience culminates in a field trip to a local lake where the fish are released along with songs, poems, and Les’ stories to remember the experience. This is a hands-on, interdisciplinary project for grades K-12 and has the following objectives.

• Provide a positive learning program for classrooms on the value of aquatic ecosystems through the hatching and release of trout

• Help students learn about their local watershed and how human activities affect the quality of water in local streams, lakes and the bay.

• Provide support to teachers to enable them to participate in this learning experience.

In 2016 there were 11,000 students in the greater bay area schools that made eye-to-eye contact with a baby fish. Just imagine the experience and what they learned. That was 11% of all program students nationwide. In 2018 there is the opportunity to increase those numbers.  If you are interested in volunteering to connect fish and outdoor stories with kids, please contact Les Junge.       
                                                          Article by Gary Trott. PFF Secretary. Keeper of fish stories.    

PFF Members, Thank you for posting some of our photos on the website. I would like to learn how that was accomplished. 

Thanks for your thoughtfulness.   Christine

Hi,Peninsula Flyfishers

Just wanted to get the word out that a new and large home on the lower sac river (same street as ours) is for sale now.....it was the home of our good neighbor's/friend's mom, who passed away recently.....

It's 19104 River Crest Drive, Anderson CA, about 2800 sq ft, with a list price of $699,000....website is www.realtor.com....anderson....

So,if anyone is looking, this is a special opportunity for a great house...and some neighbors (us!) that you would know!

Thanks...and all the best....Judy Decker-Inouye & Victor Inouye

If anyone has decided to stop fly tying and have all the gear they want to gift or sell to a total newbie then let me know - I would make a great new home for everything.

I dont plan to jump in too quickly, but it would be great to have a setup as getting all the materials and equipment seems expensive and time-consuming...I am in search of a shortcut to get me started.

Cheers

Jon

ACTION NEEDED NOW!

STRIPED BASS REGULATION PROPOSAL TO BE HEARD AT THE

FEBRUARY 2, 2012  FISH AND GAME COMMISSION MEETING.

It is time to write that letter to the California State Fish and Game Commission.  Why is this important?  If we don’t turn back this cynical and spiteful effort by San Joaquin Valley agribusiness, we stand to lose an outstanding striped bass fishery and its Delta protecting constituency.  Furthermore, leading fisheries biologists believe that the proposed regulation changes will increase the threat to listed species in the Delta.

As discussed at the last PFF general meeting, the Department of Fish and Game is presenting a proposal to the Commission to dramatically increase the take of striped bass in order to reduce the striped bass population.  This action is the result of a legal settlement between the Department of Fish and Game and a coalition of agricultural interests who sued with allegations that the striped bass were impacting the population of endangered species in the Delta, including salmon and delta smelt. 

The settlement requires the Department to present the regulation change for the Commission to approve or reject.  If the Commission rejects the recommendation, the striped bass regulations will remain unchanged.  Please write a reasoned and considerate letter to the Fish and Game Commission and urge them to reject the proposed regulation changes.

The basic proposed changes are as follows:

•   Raising the daily bag limit for striped bass from two to six fish.

•   Raising the possession limit for striped bass from two to 12 fish.

•   Lowering the minimum size for striped bass from 18 to 12 inches.

•   Establishing a hot spot for striped bass fishing at Clifton Court Forebay and specified adjacent waterways at which the daily bag limit will be 20 fish, the possession limit will be 40 fish and there will be no size limit. Anglers fishing at the hot spot would be required to fill out a report card and deposit it in an iron ranger or similar receptacle.

•   Changes to the sport fishing regulations for the Carmel, Pajaro and Salinas Rivers to allow harvest of striped bass when the fishery would otherwise be closed.

•   DFG is also recommending an adaptive management plan that will help assess how the new regulations influence the fishery.

You may address the Commission as follows:

Mr. Jim Kellogg, President

California Fish and Game Commission

1416 Ninth Street

P.O. Box 944209

Sacramento, California 94244-2090

Via fax to (916) 653-5040 / via e-mail to fgc@fgc.ca.gov and include “Proposed Striped Bass Sport Fishing Regulations” in the fax / e-mail or mail subject line.

Here are some suggested points to make in your letter.  Your letter will have more impact if you re-phrase and make the points your own:

•   Striped bass have coexisted with the listed species for over a century.  It is clear that the same stressors that have decimated the striped bass population are to blame for listed species decline.  Scapegoating the striped bass will not eliminate the impacts of water export, entrainment, habitat destruction, and poor water quality on listed species.

•   Striped bass prey on other introduced species that compete with and/or prey upon listed species.  Leading fisheries scientists warn that reducing striped bass numbers could have the unintended consequence of increasing overall predation on listed species.

•   The proposed regulations conflict with provisions of the Cental Valley Project Improvement Act which requires the doubling of mid nineteen nineties populations of all anadromous fish species in the estuary, including striped bass.

•   The proposed regulations encourage consumption of striped bass beyond levels considered safe by the State of California Office of Environmental Health.

•   The proposed regulation changes apply to San Luis Reservoir and O’Neil Forebay.  This does not follow the stated rationale for the changes – protecting endangered species in the Delta. 

For more information and relevant links, go to

http://www.danblanton.com/blog/category/conservation/

and

http://www.dfg.ca.gov/news

PLEASE WRITE YOUR LETTER TODAY!  THE ISSUE WILL BE ADDRESSED AT THE FEBRUARY 2, 2012 MEETING OF THE CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME COMMISSION.