Recreation
The sport season opened Saturday in the Klamath Management Zone, which stretches from the Oregon border to Horse Mountain, located just north of Shelter Cove.
The return of a healthy sport fishing season is excellent news for anglers and businesses in the region.
For the last three years, salmon fishing has been relatively nonexistent on the north coast due to fishery restrictions designed to protect California salmon stocks and a lack of local salmon in nearshore areas.
Early in the season, fishing success and opportunity is very weather-dependent. Fair weather on Saturday afforded anglers with the opportunity to pursue salmon from Crescent City to Fields Landing with “hit-or-miss” catches reported.
On Sunday, the weather turned stormy and those few salmon anglers who ventured out on the rough seas returned early from their trip without much luck.
Field samplers with DFG’s California Recreational Fisheries Survey Program contacted approximately 200 anglers fishing from private skiffs and commercial passenger fishing vessels and checked almost 100 chinook salmon landed during the opening weekend.
Heads were collected from all adipose fin-clipped salmon because the missing fin indicates that the salmon snout was implanted with a microscopic coded wire tag that reveals the hatchery of origin and other information important to California salmon management.
“This is a promising start to the salmon season,” said Ed Roberts, DFG associate marine biologist. “Weather hampered anglers on Sunday, but on Saturday most boats landed a few legal fish and also released some undersized fish.”
Anglers reported that cold water conditions and scattered bait made locating schools of salmon difficult. Increasing winds on Sunday severely limited effort and success.
As the season proceeds, waters are expected to warm and anglers will be better able to locate schools of bait and salmon. Spring weather is notoriously difficult to predict while summer days normally bring calmer seas.
Wardens checking anglers found good overall compliance with salmon regulations. The most common violation continues to be the use of barbed hooks while fishing for salmon.
Anglers north of Point Conception are reminded that they are required to use only barbless hooks while fishing for salmon and that once a salmon is onboard their boat or other floating device, all anglers must use barbless hooks, even if they switch to bottom fishing.
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Konocti Youth Soccer League has teamed up with Challenger Sports to host a weeklong British soccer camp June 27-July 1 at Westside Community Park.
The camp will run Monday through Friday and each child will be coached by a member of Challenger’s team of 1,000 British soccer coaches flown to the USA exclusively to work on these programs.
Challenger Sports will hold over 3,000 British soccer camps this summer and will coach more than 120,000 players between the ages of 3 and 19.
The British soccer camp is more than a week of drills and skills. In addition to taking part in a daily regimen of foot-skills, technical, tactical practices and daily tournament play, Challenger has partnered with the NAIA to help educate players in lessons on respect, responsibility, integrity, leadership and sportsmanship.
The British soccer camp program also provides a unique cultural experience for the players, highlighted in the Camp Word Cup.
The coaches use this daily tournament to teach the players about life, customs and traditions of other countries.
The campers are asked to make up soccer chants, wear the team colors of their country, bring flags and learn as much as they can about the country they represent.
Konocti Youth Soccer League is offering British soccer camp sessions for the following ages:
Ages 3-4; First Kicks; 9 a.m.-10 a.m.; $71.
Ages 4-5; Mini Soccer; 10 a.m.-noon; $96.
Ages 6-14; Half Day; 9 a.m. to noon; $101.
Ages 8-14; Full Day; 9 a.m. to 2.30 p.m.; $138.
Teams are also welcome to attend and receive a week of focused instruction to prepare them for the fall season. Team camp rates are available from your camp coordinator.
Each camper will receive a free soccer camp t-shirt, a free soccer ball, a free giant soccer poster and a personalized skills performance evaluation.
In addition, any child who signs up online at least 45 days prior to camp will receive a genuine British soccer replica jersey, valued at $39.
Space is limited – parents are encouraged to sign up on line in advance to avoid disappointment. Sign up at www.challengersports.com or, for more information please contact Mike Sheets, 707-263-6979, or email
Challenger Sports has been conducting soccer camps in the US for more than 20 years and in addition to coaching youth players throughout the country, Challenger will also run hundreds of free parent/coach soccer clinics throughout the country in partnership with the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.
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