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Rivers of a Lost Coast Trailer

Jonathon Marshall — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:13:35 +0000

Rivers of a Lost Coast is a turn of the century story about a handful of pioneer fisherman that carried their fly rods north into California’s remote north coast and gave birth to a culture that would revolutionize their sport. For a few of these fisherman, like Bill Schaadt, this fishing life style became an obsession, an obsession that would not accept compromise.

Behold The Art of ParaHawking!

Jonathon Marshall — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:05:54 +0000

What is ParaHawking you ask? It’s simple! Take paragliding and add a hawk flying along side you and eating from your hands. While you’re still flying! I need to add this to my bucket list.

Read more on ParaHawk USA’s website. Thanks to my good friend Jerry for sending me this.

Beware of Bungie Bridge Bears

Jonathon Marshall — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:21:11 +0000

Or if you prefer a boring headline, “How to recue a 250-pound bear stuck under a California bridge.” Apparently this black bear tried to cross the two lange bridge and was spooked by cars coming from both directions, instead of moving on, it decided to jump over the railing and some how managed to find the ledge right below the bridge.

Now if you wanted to get a base jumper off a bridge you just have to tell him you wont arrest him, he won’t believe you and he’ll just jump anyway.

Thanks to Jerry for sending me the photos!!

Millions of Dead Fish Crowd California Harbour

Jonathon Marshall — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 20:48:01 +0000

Much as the title suggests, literally millions of dead fish including anchovies, sardines, and mackerel were found floating on the surface of King Harbor Marina. Authorities are investigating the causes, but so far signs point to “oxygen depletion” and have stated that no oil slicks or contaminants have been found.

City Manager Bill Workman said city officials with the help of marine experts would help determine if there was any environmental issue involved. Tests are now being performed on the water as officials begin removing the dead fish, which city officials estimated to be in the millions.

“There are no visible signs of any toxins that might have caused [the die-off] and our early assessment is that this was oxygen depletion,” Workman said. “This is similar to what we experienced five years ago but that was distinctly a red tide event but there’s no discoloration of the water, no associated foaming in the waves, Workman said. “There are no oil slicks or leaking of substances into the water.”

via LA Times Blog

* UPDATE: A toxin may have contributed to why the fish congregated in the same marina, but the cause of death is still pointing at oxygen depravation.

via Yahoo! news

Thanks to member ST on the forums for linking us to the original story.

California Chinook Scared Straight – Fear of the Bubble Ravers

Jonathon Marshall — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:56:01 +0000

The California Department of Water Resources is installing an experimental “bubble barrier” in a side channel of the Sacramento River that has become a graveyard for Chinook salmon migrating down stream to San Francisco Bay. This barrier is a sheet of bubbles with strobe lights and underwater acoustics designed to scare young salmon away from Georgina Slough. The salmon that end up in the slough become dinner for stripped bass and other predators, or get sucked up in to giant irrigation pumps.

via CBS

The Goldfish Helmet

Jonathon Marshall — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 14:08:45 +0000

Check out this guy at the Edwardian ball with an aquarium on his head. Not to be confused with the fish helmet where your head is actually underwater!

via Gizmodo.

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Jonathon Marshall — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:30:51 +0000

The Monterey Bay Aquarium, which is located in a former sardine cannery on Cannery Row in Monterey, California, is one of the largest and most respected aquariums in the world. It has an annual attendance of 1.8 million and holds 35,000 plants and animals representing 623 species.

Thanksgiving 2005

Jonathon Marshall — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:12:36 +0000

I was lucky enough to spend his Thanksgiving for 2005 in Santa Cruz, a huge difference to the previous 11 months where he lived in Mexico. Staying at a friends house high in the California mountains I spent the majority of my time walking around in the woods and watching these wonderful Koi swimming around their little pond

World Record Largemouth Bass Chasers

Clive Mathias — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:14:06 +0000

It has been more then a year since Dottie, the biggest bass ever caught on a rod and reel, died. Some believed the dream of beating a world record that has stood since 1932 died with her. A year ago, no one would have predicted the next giant bass would be caught in Japan of all places. I’ve been waiting to hear more about the potential record tying bass, but very little new has made it way here to North America. Some say that exclusive rights were purchased for the story, so it still could be a while before we learn more.

Many men and women have dedicated countless hours in search of the world record bass, but few have had the dedication of Mac Weakley, Mike Winn and Jed Dickerson. These guys spent every second they could trying to catch Dottie, here is their story…

via Delaware Trophy Bass

Earthquake Brings Squid to California

Jonathon Marshall — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:24:04 +0000

A recent earthquake in California has shaken up a large group of Humboldt squid and sent them straight in to the beaches of La Jolla. Local residents were shocked and say they’ve never seen anything like this before. Check out the video!

This isn’t the first time we’ve covered the Humboldt squid, and when not confused by whatever occurred underwater during the quake they can even be quite aggressive and dangerous. In Mexico they refer to them as diablo rojo.

via NBC San Diego

Raw video from the beach can be found after the break.