2019 California Fishing Licenses Available Now
Now is the time to purchase your 2019 California sportfishing license. The 2019 license is valid from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31. Buy your license now so you can experience all of the year-round fishing opportunities the Golden State has to offer.
California Inland Fisheries was proud and honored to be able to donate $500 worth of food and supplies to the relief effort for the Camp Fire. Many thanks to JD Richie for facilitating the effort and delivering at least 2 truck and trailer loads to the Woodson Bridge RV Park. The RV Park is housing evacuees at no cost.
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Fall Weather is Perfect for Fishing
Autumn in California means cooler temperatures, leaves turning color and very hungry fish. Below are some of the many fishing opportunities the Golden State has to offer this fall.
The Feather River Hatchery is seeking volunteer assistance from 3-4 people to help pick eyed Landlocked Chinook eggs. These are the triploid eggs for the Landlocked Salmon program. The hatchery will likely need the assistance mid-next week. Please have volunteers contact the hatchery managers listed below for exact dates and times.
Anna Kastner
Fish Hatchery Manager II
(530) 538-2222
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Penny Crawshaw
Fish Hatchery Manager I
(530) 538-2222
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An update from Kyle Murphy, DFW Sr., Environmental Scientist, on the landlocked Chinook egg take. Crews took Chinook eggs from "tweeners" (fish that separate Spring from Fall runs) the first week of October at the Feather River Hatchery. I participated in the first days effort. Crews took a total of 2.76 million eggs, of which all were tripoded. An allotment was retained at Feather River Hatchery and the remainder were shipped to Silverado Fisheries Base in Napa. Eggs are looking good so far. CDFW used their new triploid machine which provides for twice the capacity of older machines for each triploid batch, thus improving efficiency. Currently, everything looks good to meet our 900,000 fish allotment target for release next year. Another inventory at the eyed stage, in a few months, and will see how much mortality occurred.
An additional day to clean the Lake Berressa Pens in preparation to accept fish in January has been scheduled for ...Nov. 7th at 9am.
If you are available, we need volunteers to help complete our clean up and repairs on the pens. Please contact Stan Wong via email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Remember to wear old clothes, bring rain gear and plan on lunch afterwards.
Thank you for all your help and support
Stan Wong
925-818-9332
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Message from Kyle Murphy, DFW Sr. Environmental Scientist, says "a second Kokanee egg take on the Little Truckee River has been scheduled on next Tuesday, 10/16. This take is conditional on a ripeness check to be conducted on Monday, 10/15. If the fish are spawned out, then this take effort will be cancelled. I will notify you on Monday either way."
If you are interested in volunteering to help with this event please contact our Egg Take Coordinator Ed Fisk at 530-559-7175 or sign up by filling out the Egg Take Volunteer form HERE.
This list goes directly to the coordinator so be sure to sign up or call Ed and leave a message if necessary.
Kyle Murphy from DFW just gave CIFFI the results of the 10/09/18 egg take... we had our best one day in recent history! The egg count was 1.5 million. They handled close to 700 male and female fish with the longest fish being 18 inches and the average being 15 and three-quarter inches. A huge shout out to all of the volunteers from CIFFI, Kokanee Power, and DFW. It was a 13 hour day on the water for egg collection, and an even little longer day for DFW and San Joaquin Hatchery workers who wrapped up at 4am.
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DFW will be receiving triploid Chinook eggs at the Silverado Fish Base and Kokanee eggs San Joaquin Hatcheries starting next week, Oct. 15th, and are requesting volunteer egg pickers.
If you are interested in volunteering, please contact the respective hatchery managers below. PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT CIFFI.
San Joaquin Fish Hatchery – Friant
Ron Samra, Fish Hatchery Manager II
Office: 559.822.2374
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Silverado Fisheries Base - Napa
Mike Ficele, Fish Hatchery Manager II
Office: 707.948.1237
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Check out these aerial views of the Kokanee spawn site on the Little Truckee River that were taken on Oct. 7th. This is what the annual egg take volunteers will be seeing today, Oct. 9th.
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The first of the annual egg takes with the Dept. of Fish and Wildlife has been scheduled for OCTOBER 9th.
If you are interested in volunteering to help with this event please contact our Egg Take Coordinator Ed Fisk at 530-559-7175 or sign up by filling out the Egg Take Volunteer form HERE.
This list goes directly to the coordinator so be sure to sign up or call Ed and leave a message if necessary.
TAKE A FRIEND FISHING
This is a great time of year to take someone new to fishing and show them the ropes. Fall-run salmon in the Central Valley rivers, striped bass in the Delta, tuna and yellowtail off the coast of Southern California, and trout fishing in the Sierra are all great bets for summer fishing in California. Get out on the water, take a friend or family member with you and enjoy the outdoors.
Due to last minute unforeseen circumstances, tonight's membership meeting in Dixon as been cancelled. It has been tentatively rescheduled for June 20th.
The CIFFI booth at the Sacramento ISE Show was ready for action Thursday January 18, 2018. The four days were busy with lots of new memberships, plus many renewals! Coordinator Board Member Mark Kalinowski did a good job of orchestrating!!
We will be receiving fish for our pens at Lake Berryessa on January 8, 2018 (Monday) at 10 AM and could use some help to place the fish into the pens. If you can give us a helping hand for a couple hours please contact Stan Wong by calling him at 925-818-9332 or email him at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Thank you in advance for any assistance you can give.
It's that time again to petition for assistance in the ISE Booth, January 18th thru 21st.
Please let me know either by phone at 925-822-5710 or email (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) at your earliest opportunity if you can help out.
Assistance for the following hours are needed...
- Wed.. 01/17 - help with booth setup 11 am - ?
- Thurs, 1/18 - 11 am-8 pm shift split is 11-3:30 and 3:30-8:00
- Fri, 1/19 - 11 am-8 pm shift split is 11-3:30 and 3:30-8:00
- Sat , 1/20 - 10 am-7 pm shifts are 10:00 -2:30 and 2:30-7:00
- Sun, 1/21 - 10 am-5 pm and helping taking down the booth
Mark Kalinowski
ISE Booth Chairman
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