Outdoors Dave Sartwell The Gloucester Daily Times Fri Apr 29, 2011, 11:40 PM EDT
The American Shad (Alossa sapidissima to you Latin fans) will soon be running the Merrimack River in great numbers
As the warm weather and spring rains come to New England, the rivers that flow down out of the mountains start to play host to a number of fish species that use these waters as their spawning medium
We invited Daily Telegram readers to share stories and photos of the first time they went fishing. Here are the stories you sent.
Sonja Yeutter Colcun, Jerome:
My uncles, Kenneth “Tubby” and Lysle Yeutter, had allowed my 4-year-old sister and 5-year-old self to accompany them in the rowboat during one of their fishing trips at Wamplers Lake during the early ’50s. My uncles not only loved fishing but were very tolerant of small children — to a point. The rules, besides not talking, included no complaining about the hot sun, no wanting to immediately return to the dock for bathroom breaks, no whipping about of the cane poles, no whining about being hungry. We were expected to be able to bait our own hooks with worms, although if a fish swallowed the hook, we were assisted in removing it.
For the first time in four years, salmon fishing will be allowed this summer on the Sacramento River between Anderson and Red Bluff.
The California Fish and Game Commission Thursday laid out the guidelines for the season.
"It's a terrific season," said Harry Morse, spokesman for the California Department of Fish and Game.
Fishing is really busting loose right now from the high pines to the lower deserts. Full moon is Sunday. We have nice warm weather shooting up into the nineties this weekend in the deserts. This should definitely be the time for the crappie to spawn. Mini-jigs and live minnows should be the trick for most.
• NEW MELONES RESERVOIR — Big news was the 43.19-pound limit landed during Saturday's Angler's Choice tournament with a large fish of over 14 pounds. These fish must have been picked off of the beds since the remaining limits in this small tourney dropped dramatically. Bass are moving toward post-spawn, and they are holding around structure with submerged wood at 5 to 20 feet and hitting white/chartreuse spinnerbaits, River2Sea S-Wavers, jigs, Senkos or 6-inch plastics. Trout are in the main lake and upriver at 15 to 30 feet, deeper as the weather warms with small, bright-colored lures behind small dodgers or Sling Blades.
Civil society members have called for immediate release of all the fishermen languishing in Pakistani and Indian jails and suggested that a buffer zone of 100 nautical miles between the territorial waters of the two countries be created in order to resolve this issue on permanent basis.
Many such recommendations were put forward by Justice (retd) Nasir Aslam Zahid, ex-Senator Iqbal Haider, Chairman Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum Mohammad Ali Shah and peace activist BM Kutty while addressing a press conference on the issue of Indo-Pak fishermen at the Karachi Press Club here on Wednesday.
Гидроним озера Инышко до сих пор не имеет единого толкования. Одна из общепринятых версий исходит от башкирского мужского имени — Иныш. Другие ученые отдают предпочтение тюркскому толкованию: «инеш» значит «маленький». Водоем, действительно, не большой по размеру. Третья версия - «йенеш». Переводится как «рядом» или «около». Скорее всего, это название указывает на местоположение водного объекта: озеро Инышко отделено от соседнего Тургояка небольшим перешейком. Его ширина - 250 метров.
На многих наших водоемах ерша ловят, как попало и на что попало. Клюет он, как правило, безотказно и основная проблема наших рыбаков в том, как бы от него избавиться.
В то же время на балансиры, ставшие очень популярными в последние годы со льда ловят в основном окуня, реже судака, щуку, язя.
