Its official, crab season will be delayed

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/4704376-181/dont-eat-dungeness-crab-california

Nice action! That bottom fish looks more like a Spotted Bass than a Smallie.

I went camping there a few times maybe 15 years ago. I caught a lot of brown and rainbow trout, they very obviously planted a lot of fish there at the time. Putah creek is a lot more productive further up closer to the dam, both for rainbows and pretty sizable browns. I've also heard there are smallmouth but never targeted them. I caught my personal best rainbow there in one of the shallow runs, measured 26". Beautiful naturalized/wild fish. Sorry to hear it hasn't been maintained.

I don't think its an MFE, look at the head shape. Looks more like the related Rock Prickleback to me.

Honestly, it makes sense to me. I saw this same sort of problem in a lot of Maryland's streams/rivers when I moved there. The DFG stocked rainbows and browns into most of the suitable habitat and now complain about the native Brook trout numbers declining. Pretty basic fish knowledge will tell you that Browns are more aggressive, larger and spawn at the same time in the same places as the smaller, native Brookies. Not hard to figure out what will happen. I am glad that Yellowstone is taking action, but they could also stop stocking non-native trout and replenish stocks with native strain hatchery cutthroats. That could potentially maintain catchable numbers for tourists while reducing the numbers (over time) of non native salmonids. Most likely a cost-prohibitive option though...

Never done too well fishing the main lake at Donner. Caught some small Rainbows and Browns fishing the outlet area near the Memorial statue on flies. That narrow snake-y section of lake is usually good for a few planters.

neat catch, albeit a bit eerie! i've seen/heard of them caught pretty regularly around catalina, a friend of mine caught one in monterey a few years back too. maybe theres a rogue population hanging out?