Love this thread. Although it bums me out terribly being my home rivers have been bastardized and mistreated so bad to the point they are pretty much just dead.
They used to hold some of the best steelhead and salmon runs in Ca. Now all you'll catch is hepatitis or a dead transient stuck to the river bottom.
Pajaro River winter 2017. Major levee damage and almost flooding town again. Now it's back to being a trickle and 3" deep sludge.
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Soquel Creek winter '17. Same as above. Bastardized and abused.
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Cant not mention the San Lorenzo. Pic taken at the mouth of the river on a crazy high flow day. I still get out and fish this river in the Santa Cruz mountains every year. Only now I clip the hooks off my flies. If I feel the bump it makes my week and it's really all I want to experience. With our Coho salmon on the brink and the steelhead right behind them I'd hate to inadvertently kill one.
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