The Good Fight: Delta Stripers Threatened
Striped bass are aquatic vacuum cleaners. They eat nearly anything that swims. Juveniles eat microscopic invertebrates by the…
Tom Martens
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The Good Fight: Conservation Updates
Trout Conservationist Heads State Fish and Game Agency For the first time in California’s history, a trout conservation…
The Good Fight: “Visionaries” Start Work on Fish-and-Game Strategies
Who’s got the vision for California’s fish and game? More than 130 people with a stake in the…
The Good Fight: The Sierra Fund Takes On Threat of Mercury to Anglers
Mercury and gold mining have gone hand in hand in the Sierra Nevada ever since the mid 1800s.…
The Good Fight: New Delta Organization Takes On a Range of Issues
Restore the Delta is a tiny organization with a big mission — keeping the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta “fishable,…
The Good Fight: Governor Brown Could Reshape Fisheries Management
California now has a leader with the same name as a trout, but will Governor Jerry Brown be…
The Good Fight: The Northern Sierra Partnership
You’ve likely fished it: the Sierra region that extends from Ebbetts Pass northward to the border of the…
The Good Fight – An Issue of Public Access: Pleasant Valley Creek
Pleasant Valley Creek is the kind of a place usually found only in trout anglers’ dreams. Located just southwest of…
The Good Fight: Trout Groups Cast for Clout at the Capitol
In June, California’s two biggest trout groups brought their fly rods to the State Capitol for a PR…
The Good Fight: The California Sportfishing Protection Alliance
Watching fisheries that God nurtured over tens of thousands of years being virtually destroyed in less than two…