On Sat, 08 Oct 2016 14:44:14 -0500, Califbill wrote:

wrote:
On Fri, 7 Oct 2016 20:02:24 -0400, Alex wrote:

Mr Ed heard from Wayne on his facebook page. He is OK, Boat is fine
and he will be underway soon.


Hope all is well for all those in the area. Me, I went salmon fishing, not
catching, on the Sacramento River at Walnut Grove. Slight breeze, hot,
needed my shorts, not long pants. Saw one salmon hooked, one boat with one
dragging in the river and one acquaintances that lives in the area, had 2
early in the morning. Still do not understand people dragging a fish in
the water. In the river, the surface temp is probably still 65, which
makes for poor quality fish, and we do get sea lions all the way to
Sacramento. They will take the fish off the stringer. Gut them and put
them on ice for nice quality fish. These salmon are far enough down river,
that 90% are still ocean quality meat. Further up river, they may be mush,
black spawned out fish.

Maybe they didn't have a permit (if required) and wanted to be able to cut it loose if the mounties
showed up. You know, "Aw, it was just a dogfish, officer."