JonBailey

California is under its worst drought ever as you know. This will adversely impact inland/freshwater fishing in this state for years to come, quite possibly. This state may be becoming a desert. You may have to trade your fishing boat in for a dune buggy for CA recreation. Of course, if CA should fall ever into the sea, that would quickly avert the drought. You then will need a coastal boat to fish off the shores of Reno, Nevada. Casinos on the Pacific Ocean beach front! What a notion! The CA lakes and reservoirs are all mud puddles by now. The rivers are exposing their beds to the air and sunshine. Maybe a swamp buggy might work as a bass rig. Then again, you can dip a line into a tank with fish in it.

What is a PROPER diet? Mine is high fiber so just in case...

Since I will have two big pooches in life vests, portable toilet equipment, extra fuel, and a big cooler, I had better consider an 18 foot Cresty for some extra space on deck. My 14' Lowe of yore was awfully tight for room. A 50-HP motor should be sufficient.

There are no woods out on the California Delta. There is seldom woods near a duck blind or an open dove field.

I do know treated waste is dumped into the Sacramento River and the thought of that still grosses me out. I will probably just use the Delta waters for day cruising and not fishing, skiing or swimming and restrict my freshwater fishing to clear-running rivers, streams, lakes and reservoirs. The non-navigable shallow rivers of significant current will require waders or expensive jet boats, not prop-driven power boats, for angling. Because I, a flat lander, am prone to altitude sickness, I want to be no higher than 3,000 feet elevation in northern California for outdoor recreation. I suspect California fishing this coming season will be poor due to the record drought.

Well, yes, as at a deer stand, a dove field or a duck blind. Hunting in a stationary position or an open field that doesn't offer good natural cover for loo privacy. Hunting deer walking, I had to take a dump behind a tree in that hunt but the denser woods provide enough privacy. I carried TP in my backpack.

He has seen them but is concerned that the waters they are caught out of are polluted. He is also concerned that the rusty Navy mothball fleet has contaminated the Suisan Bay and that sewage is dumped into the Sacramento River. I am concerned about the pesticides and chemical fertilizers that run off into navigable Delta waters from farmland irrigation. It seems like salmon and trout caught out of northern California lakes and mountain rivers are going to be from cleaner waters than from Delta waters. Same goes for lake bass. I am concerned about water quality and QUANTITY during this drought episode for northern California inland fishing. I live in Sacramento County.

There should be laws and regulations governing power boating as there are for driving an automobile. Boating likewise is a privilege and not a right. For somebody to lawfully operate a power boat in any state I believe the following should be mandatory: 1. some kind of license or permit to operate a motor boat 2. some kind of minimum age requirement unless a licensed adult is on board 3. absolutely no driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol 4. mandatory life jacket wearing for all persons on board a recreational power boat while boat is underway 5. some kind of formal boater training and safety education approved by the USCG 6. training on how to properly trailer a boat, launch and load a boat at a boat dock instead of holding up everybody in line like an amateur 7. mandatory liability boating insurance Too many idiots are out on the water. Proper training and stiffer regulation eliminates stupidity.

A man I know claims that the Sacramento River is too polluted to catch quality food fishes from and the same goes for the Delta as a whole. I want fish that tastes good and are safe to eat.

Living, fishing and boating northern California inland waters, I would not be getting into water any bigger than Trinity Lake, Folsom lake, Lake Oroville, Lake Berryessa or Shasta Dam which ever is bigger. My outboard would be limited to 50 HP and so would my cruising speed, say 25 knots tops. I won't boat Lake Tahoe because the altitude is too high for my respiratory health. I am a flat lander and not a mountain man. The Cresty 16 deep-vee should handle freshwater lake chop up to 25 knots. I drive conservatively too not making hard turns and if the water gets too rough due to high winds, there is a procedure called slowing down the boat. The Cresty should also handle the Sacramento River and the California Delta.

I probably would go to the bank if I could and use the pop-up privacy shelter there if no public lavatory were close by.

I want to be able to fish for them on a multi-species deep-vee prop-driven aluminum boat under 20 feet. This is obviously not for large bays, arms or coastal waters. I want the best tasting salmon and fish weights for the grill and for the smoker. Which seasons are the best? Which species are the best? Are salmon found in inland waters strictly during spawning seasons? Are there more species of salmon than the chinook or king in northern California inland waters? Which bodies of water navigable by small motor boar is the best for very good food salmon? I live in Sacramento. The navigable non-land-locked bodies of water around here including but not limited to: 1. The Feather River 2. The Sacramento River 3. The San Joaquin River 4. The California Delta with its various complex maze of sloughs and channels 5. Folsom Lake 6. Carquinez Strait I am not sure if any part of the American River is navigable by non-jet power boat. i have heard of anchor fishing for Chinook on the Sacramento River. Are these good-tasting fish? What other methods and tackle are used for inland salmon? My main interest for food fishes are the salmonids: salmon, trout, steelheads, char or whitefish.

Something like that. But boats don't have plates. The DMV evidently sends a list of vacant (unregistered/untaken) boat numbers to marine dealerships. Each dealership, of course, gets a range of numbers that no other dealership has. There are about 6.7 million possible combinations for CA boat reg. numbers. When those become exhausted they will probably make the reg. numbers longer than 8 digits. With computers this should be no sweat these days.

The toilet tents fold very compact. Your "boat" must be an inner tube then if it won't fit.

It depends on the dealer. Apparently this particular dealer can as follows: Brothers Boats, Folsom, California I believe they have a pool of registration numbers the DMV allots them to use for new boat sales.