Article in the Ukiah newspaper about a tournament targeting squawfish at Lake Pillsbury July 15th with cash prizes. The article in the newspaper was quite educational as it explained how a release of Pike minnows in Lake Pillsbury helped to destroy the salmon and steelhead runs on the Eel River and the Russian River.
       If somebody knows how to put the link up so people could read it I'd be grateful as I don't yet know how to do that. I believe the accidental release happened sooner than the article stated as I remembered catching one in the Russian River Slightly North of Cloverdale in 1974 or 75 and it was probably 16 inches in length. Still remember how it slammed a small two or two and a half inch split lure there resembled a young salmon or steelhead in the Dead Heat Of Summer.
        I also remember catching a couple above the Healdsburg Memorial Dam in the mid-90s probably about 12 to 16 in inches with my son as he enjoyed catching the suckers with worms and releasing them. The last one I caught probably 2006 on the Russian River near Forestville and weighed about five or six pounds is straight up salmon and steelhead gobbling machine.
           None of these fish ever made it back into the river and I know I shouldn't even State this because I could have been cited for wanton waste. I lived with the Russian River in my backyard in Redwood Valley and just over the top of the hill was tomki Creek a tributary of the eel river maybe a six or seven Mile Drive from my home.
         Redwood Valley Fork of the Russian River still had a run of salmon and steelhead in 1976 though not as big as the locals described it 10 or 20 years earlier. Over the top of the hill on the Eel River still had some pretty darn good sized runs but from what I understand not any longer and I watch those spawning fish declined so drastically and fast it wasn't even fun to go up there and watch them anymore.
         After reading the article in the newspaper I thought I'd research on how big a squawfish could get and I came across this video on YouTube which I don't know how to post a link either if anybody's willing to help me out I'd be grateful again if you posted the link so people can watch. It was a YouTube post by Scott Higgins fishing called Russian River California Pike minnow and it was released in 2022.
            He released his fish back into the river and they were pretty good sized so if we can get that video on here to show people what kind of fish we don't want in the river and how to identify the pike minnow people just might start throwing them up on the bank hopefully.

Free kayak on Craigslist freebies says it's in Santa Rosa.

Craigslist freebies 12 foot aluminum boat says it was posted 2 hours ago and I believe it's in Novato

Dad would tell me the night or two before beautiful ocean conditions or a hot bite on one of the rivers in Mendocino County or expected rain making for a good deer or pig hunt.
I always was ready to go at the drop of a hat, and he would throw some salami cheese and a loaf of sourdough bread for a day run. That was all it took and we were on the trip the next morning.
What was your dad's meal plan they kept you interested in Hunting Fishing and Outdoors

I'm sure we've all had the problem of soggy egg carton of a broken egg in the ice chest or the hassle of all ways having to make sure the eggs are on top.
Found this solution on the net , whip raw eggs and use funnel to put Into an empty beverage container with a screw on cap. Wish I would have known this many years ago.

saw this at a garage sale this morning in Santa Rosa 150$ if there's any interest I'll post the telephone number.

free on Craigslist don't know how to post the link but here's a picture

In junior high health class learned definition of scrotum. Nicknamed some poor kid scroter and it stuck like glue bear in mind this was some forty plus years ago.
Then there was boogie a freind of mine.
My joker uncle asked me where boogie was and mom looked at him with a raised eyebrow. he did a little dance and said that boy can boogie and it calmed mom down.
I thought the jerky dance looked funny and began calling him boogie. He asked me why so i demonstrated dance to the best of my ability.
He liked it so much he made up his own dance and when the other kids called him boogie he would do his quick dance to everyones laughter.
Found out some thirtyfive years later the reason he called him boogie was he always had a booger visible in his nose.
Now some of your nicknames and how you or they got them