Posted in Fishing Reports on August 18th, 2005 Comments Off
Big Bear Lake fishing report - As the weather conditions improved so did rainbow trout fishing on Big Bear Lake.
The oxycline went a little deeper this past week and is 23 feet at the Dam and Papoose Bay. It remains 20 feet at the west ramp. The summer pattern is well established now with the [...]
Posted in Fishing Reports on August 18th, 2005 Comments Off
Midwest fishing report - Lakefront perch: Indiana/Illinois: Capt. Chuck Weis of Ace Charters found perch last week as deep as 38 feet on the Indiana shoals to as shallow as 18 feet at Gary Light after water temperatures dropped 20 degrees on Friday. ”Every day is different. There is no rhyme or reason,” he said. [...]
Posted in Fishing Reports on August 17th, 2005 Comments Off
Numbers indicate cod stocks dropping despite fishing restrictions
BOSTON –The adult cod population off Massachusetts has dropped by more than 20 percent since 2001, despite tough new restrictions on fishing passed during that time, according to preliminary numbers presented this week by federal regulators.
The numbers of cod found near Georges Bank, off the southern New England [...]
Posted in Fishing Reports on August 17th, 2005 Comments Off
Bid to clamp down on illegal anglers
ILLEGAL fishermen have started fires at a beauty spot, threatened council officials who tried to get them to go and seriously injured a dog.
Epsom and Ewell Council Rangers mounted a joint operation with Surrey Police and Environment Agency officials at ponds in Horton Country Park.
The raids, over the weekend [...]
Posted in Fishing Reports on August 17th, 2005 Comments Off
Fishing Seattle : Where they’re biting, where they aren’t
Salmon and saltwater
Don Armeni ramp, West Seattle — Friday: 177 boats with 380 anglers caught 101 chinook, 16 coho, and 31 pink.; Saturday: 71 boats with 153 anglers caught 42 chinook, 25 coho, 24 pink, and 54 flatfish.
Everett ramp — Friday: 130 boats with 268 anglers caught [...]