Barnacles wrote:
In my teens I lived in Colusa, about 100 yards from the river, I fished quite a bit then, used to pull out quite a few stripers next to the state park a couple of hundred yards upstream from the boat launch, used sardines for bait. For salmon, we'd anchor on the channel below the water towers. These days, I don't fish much in the river. I live near Sacramento, and the banks there are lined with homeless camps. It's not so scenic, and it's not hard to imagine what the homeless use for a 'sanitary facility'. No thanks to those fish! As for Colusa, they've pulled out all the graceful trees along the banks and covered the banks with rip-rap. It doesn't look like a river there anymore, it's the Sacramento canal! These days, I prefer mountain lakes. Fishing isn't just for catching fish, it's something I do to get my emotional batteries recharged.
In my teens I lived in Colusa, about 100 yards fro... (
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