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Web Host Supports Isle of Man Government Participationbr/24-26 January 2012, Earls Court/ppBallasalla, Isle of Man, 12 January 2012 – Ballasalla based Netcetera, one of Europe’s leading Managed Hosting and Datacentre providers, announced that once again, they are attending theInternational Casino Exhibition for e-gaming, from 24th to 26th January 2012 at Earls Court, London, where they will be part of the Isle of Man delegation on stand No. 5530.br/The Isle of Man actively encourages e-gaming and offers a world-class telecommunications infrastructure, low-tax incentives as well as a superb business environment. said Tim Cass of Netcetera. This will be our fourth year at ICE, and as it’s the world’s leading business to business gaming exhibition, it will be an excellent networking opportunity. After the resounding success of the 2011 event, we are delighted to be returning again this year br/Netcetera’s Datacentre, The Dataport in Ballasalla, offers the e-gaming industry the mostadvanced and cost-effective facilities for housing IT infrastructure available anywhere offshore including the following products and services:br/? Over 16,000 sq foot of Datacentre Space available offering server co-location frombr/single shelf to custom suites, purpose designed expandable space tailored to individuals needsbr/? Fully resilient N+1 services including power, air-conditioning and networkbr/? Experienced support, 24/7br/? Low-latency communications circuits – only 10ms from peers at the major Europeanbr/exchange point and Tier 1 transit providersbr/? DDOS mitigationbr/? Cloud Hostingbr/? Complimentary range of Managed Services./ppIn addition Netcetera offers:br/? Experience in e-Gaming industry hosting servicesbr/? Consultancy in design and implementation of secure infrastructuresbr/? Dedicated account managers amp; e-Gaming-savvy executivesbr/? ISO9001 and ISO27001 accreditationbr/? Isle of Man Government Approved Disaster Recovery Providerbr/With over 400 exhibitors from across the betting, bingo, casino, lottery, mobile, online and street gaming sectors, ICE is well established as the world’s leading gaming exhibition. 2011 saw over 20,000 gaming professionals travelling from 126 countries to visit the three day event, and 11.5% increase on 2010 and which reinforces its resounding success and confirms the exhibition’s status as the place to do business.br/If you would like complementary passes to the show, or would like to arrange a meeting in advance please contact us on telephone 0800 061 2801 or by email to sales@netcetera.co.uk./ppThe passes to attend the event give exhibitors and visitors the opportunity to attend conference sessions, seminars, workshops, networking and hospitality events during the two days./ppENDS#13;
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The Internet’s most popular destinations, including eBay, Google, Facebook, and Twitter, seem to view a href=/8301-31921_3-57329001-281/how-sopa-would-affect-you-faq/Hollywood-backed copyright legislation/a as an existential threat.
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It was Google co-founder Sergey Brin who a href=https://plus.google.com/109813896768294978296/posts/Dt6FoRv6hXJwarned/a that the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act would put us on a par with the most oppressive nations in the world. Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, Twitter co-founders Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone, and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman a href=/8301-31921_3-57342914-281/silicon-valley-execs-blast-sopa-in-open-letter/argue/a that the bills give the Feds unacceptable power to censor the Web.
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But these companies have yet to roll out the heavy artillery.
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When the home pages of Google.com, Amazon.com, Facebook.com, and their Internet allies simultaneously turn black with anti-censorship warnings that ask users to contact politicians about a vote in the U.S. Congress the next day on SOPA, you’ll know they’re finally serious.
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True, it would be the political equivalent of a nuclear option–possibly drawing retributions from the influential politicos backing SOPA and Protect IP–but one that could nevertheless be launched in 2012.
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There have been some serious discussions about that, says Markham Erickson, who heads the a href=http://www.netcoalition.com/NetCoalition/a trade association that counts Google, Amazon.com, eBay, and Yahoo as members. It has never happened before. (See a href=/8301-31921_3-57329001-281/how-sopa-would-affect-you-faq/CNET’s SOPA FAQ/a.)
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Web firms may be outspent tenfold on lobbyists, but they enjoy one tremendous advantage over the SOPA-backing Hollywood studios and record labels: direct relationships with users.
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How many Americans feel a personal connection with an amalgamation named Viacom — compared with voters who have found places to live on Craigslist and jobs (or spouses) on Facebook and Twitter? How would, say, Sony Music Entertainment, one of the Recording Industry Association of America’s board members, cheaply and easily reach out to hundreds of millions of people?
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Protect IP and SOPA, of course, represent the latest effort from the Motion Picture Association of America, the RIAA, and their allies to counter what they view as rampant piracy on the Internet, especially offshore sites such as a href=http://thepiratebay.org/ThePirateBay.org/a. It would allow the Justice Department to obtain an order to be served on search engines, Internet providers, and other companies forcing them to make a suspected piratical Web site effectively vanish, a kind of Internet death penalty.
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There are early signs that the nuclear option is being contemplated. Wikimedia (as in Wikipedia) a href=http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/11/15/wikimedia-supports-american-censorship-day/called/a SOPA an Internet Blacklist Bill. Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#Request_for_Comment:_SOPA_and_a_strikehas proposed/a an article page blackout as a way to put maximum pressure on the U.S. government in response to SOPA. /p
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The Tumblr microblogging site a href=/8301-13506_3-57327681-17/tumblr-users-fight-sopa-with-87834-calls-to-congress/generated/a 87,834 calls to Congress over SOPA. Over at a href=http://godaddyboycott.org/GoDaddyBoycott.org/a, a move-your-domain-name protest is scheduled to begin today over the registrar’s previous–and still not repudiated–a href=/8301-31921_3-57348511-281/godaddy-accused-of-interfering-with-anti-sopa-exodus/enthusiasm for SOPA/a. Popular image hosting site Imgur a href=https://twitter.com/#!/imgur/status/151966977655701504said yesterday/a it would join the exodus too.
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Technically speaking, it wouldn’t be difficult to pull off. Web companies already target advertisements based on city or ZIP code.
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And it would be effective. A note popping up on the screens of people living in the mostly rural Texas district of SOPA author Lamar Smith, a href=/8301-31921_3-57343367-281/meet-sopa-author-lamar-smith-hollywoods-favorite-republican/Hollywood’s favorite Republican/a, asking them to call or write and voice their displeasure, would be noticed. If Tumblr could generate nearly 90,000 calls on its own, think of what companies with hundreds of millions of users could do.
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If these Web companies believe what their executives say (a href=http://www.net-coalition.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Opposition_Dec16.pdfPDF/a) about SOPA and Protect IP, they’ll let their users know what their elected representatives are contemplating. A Senate floor debate a href=/8301-31921_3-57345187-281/senate-will-vote-next-month-on-protect-ip-copyright-bill/scheduled for/a January 24, 2012 would be an obvious starting point.
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The reason it hasn’t happened is because of the sensitivity, says Erickson, even when it’s a policy issue that benefits their users. He adds: It may happen.
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bPrivacy from above/b
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A few years ago, it would have been something that only the military could afford, but for $300 or so, you can buy Parrot’s remarkable a href=/8301-17938_105-20016828-1.htmlAR.Drone quadricopter/a. In addition to being a technological tour de force that will enrapture any child, it’s an
a href=http://reviews.cnet.com/iphone/ section=luke_topiciPhone/a-controlled spy cam and capable airborne surveillance platform.
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Which means it and similar aircraft are capable of invading privacy in novel ways — don’t be surprised if the a href=/8301-31921_3-20020225-281.htmlEd Markey set/a concocts proposals to somehow regulate or license them. On the other hand, they also offer novel ways to advance government and police accountability.
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Journalists and activists are already starting to do just that. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is a href=http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/25/australia-japan-whaling-idUSB69119620111225taking footage/a of Japan’s whaling fleet; Occupy Wall Street has its a href=http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/dec/21/occupy-wall-street-occucopter-tim-pooloccucopter/a; CNN a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmpwTVvS67Yhas shot aerial footage/a with a drone. Your 12-year-old neighbor won’t be far behind.
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bObama fails privacy test/b
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In 2011, the surveillance enthusiasts at the U.S. Department of Justice a href=/8301-31921_3-20051982-281.htmlfirmly opposed/a a proposal from Internet companies and civil liberties groups to enhance the privacy of anyone who owns a mobile device or uses Web-based email. (Cloud computing users currently are second-class citizens: they have more privacy if they store documents on their own hard drive at home.)
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The Justice Department’s announcement might come as a surprise to anyone who voted for candidate Obama based on his campaign promises at the time. He a href=/8301-13578_3-10080024-38.htmltold CNET in 2008/a that: I will work with leading legislators, privacy advocates, and business leaders to strengthen both voluntary and legally required privacy protections.
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Which has yet to happen. If a href=/8301-31921_3-20071670-281/senator-renews-pledge-to-update-digital-privacy-law/pro-privacy legislation/a introduced this summer advances, Obama will get to choose between honoring his civil liberties pledge or siding with the surveillance-industrial complex. Given his poor record in this area so far, this is one privacy test he’s likely to fail.
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bAntitrust on the rise/b
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It tends to be far cheaper to pay lobbyists to cripple your rival than compete in the marketplace. A decade ago, Sun, Oracle, and Netscape a href=http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/2001/06/44902teamed up/a to convince the solons at the U.S. Justice Department that arch-enemy Microsoft needed to be lopped off at the knees.
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Now Google is a primary target, and Microsoft and its allies are the ones lobbying for some impromptu axe-wielding. The latest round came this week when the Wall Street Journal a href=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203686204577116700668483194.htmlreported/a: Competitors say Google is abusing its power in Web search to gain sway over the $110 billion online travel business.
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There’s no evidence that Google’s Flight Search is harming consumers, which is supposed to be the modern requirement for an antitrust violation. Or that Facebook Credits somehow violates antitrust law, which a href=/8301-30685_3-20075388-264/watchdog-facebook-credits-violate-antitrust-law/some activists have claimed/a. But because bureaucrats build careers on high-profile prosecutions, don’t expect that to stop the antitrust aficionados in the U.S. government in 2012.
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bAnonymous takes on politicians/b
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If 2011 was the a href=/8301-27080_3-57347329-245/five-predictions-for-security-in-2012/Year of the Hackers/a, 2012 may be the Year the Hackers Upset the Political Establishment.
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Anonymous has taken aim, with various degrees of success, at targets including Sony, police, and a href=/8301-1023_3-20092221-93/anonymous-defaces-bart-site-leaks-user-data/the San Francisco-area subway system/a. /p
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The obvious 2012 election-year target: politicians, especially ones supporting SOPA. Sarah Palin’s a href=/8301-13578_3-10044919-38.htmle-mail was hacked/a in 2008, revealing nothing especially interesting, but the Twitter account of a href=http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/anthony_weiner_wanted_threesome_lsWQP7yVeLiUcO1wawrddOthreesome-loving/a ex-congressman Anthony Weiner a href=/8301-31921_3-20068178-281.htmlproved to be an entertaining read/a. A recent Reddit a href=http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/ntfzw/lets_pick_one_senator_of_voted_for_ndaasopa_and/thread/a says it’s time to destroy a pro-SOPA politician, and suggestions of dubious legality are already surfacing.
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pGod oh god, it’s Christmas and I wanted to write some sort of light frippery that allowed me to get in a joke about news that Molly Meldrum’s condition being described as ‘stable’ was a lifetime first. But there’s no alternative to saying a word or two on the strange turn that the refugee debate has taken, in the wake of the sinking of Siev-221, and the reaction it has produced in the commentariat./p
pM’colleague a href=http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/21/a-year-on-what-has-changed-in-asylum-seeker-policy/Keane summed it up/a by saying yesterday that: “Opinion now seems to be shifting to recognise that, to the extent that if the Australian government can take action to deter people from risking their lives, it should.”/p
pThat may well be true, but exactly whose opinion is it that’s shifting? The comments strings here, at emThe Drum/em and the major papers shows nothing that is so easily readable. More than usually for comments strings, they show such a wild variation not merely of opinion, but of basic perception and understanding that no simple summary really covers it./p
pThat is to be expected. After all, the asylum seeker debate has been prodded, pushed, manipulated, reshaped and repackaged for so long now that one layer of official sentiment lies atop another./p
pWe have gone from the high/low point of children overboard — in which boat-borne refugees were constructed as inhuman monsters who did not love their children — to an official bipartisan version blaming people smugglers, and constructing boat-borne refugees as wholly passive, and thereby innocent./p
pThe latter attitude suits both major parties: the ALP can use it to pursue exclusionary refugee policies by framing them within a notion of oppression and exploitation, and the Coalition can back away from the race-hate it deployed in 2001-4, which caused major internal party disruption, and endangered inner-urban seats with a left-liberal tinge./p
pThe racist “children overboard” version licensed a form of visceral hate close to the surface, and made it permissible by expressing it in terms of national traditions — as an alleged expression of the “fair go”./p
pThe “people smugglers” version licenses another sort of approach: that we try and manage not only the people who come here, but do so by managing their beliefs and expectations. Suddenly, the whole approach to boat-borne refugees has become very UK New Labourish./p
pRather than treat them as subjects and world citizens to whom we have a treaty-based obligation, should they arrive at our shores, the new approach is that they should be managed from afar, so that they don’t even want to come here./p
pThis is expressed not as a preventative tactic for national security, but as a way of honouring our obligation to them — in designing policies that treat them as psychological units to be deterred, we can claim to have their best interests at heart./p
pThis argument is the latest one being used to justify “overseas mandatory detention” — the process known as “offshore processing” the very use of such a weasel term all but conceding the argument to the “people managers”. It came from within Rudd Labor as a branded alternative to the Coalition’s overseas mandatory detention policy, the so-called Pacific Solution./p
pThe claimed superiority of Labor’s Malaysia solution was that it would engage the region in a collective approach, thus drawing on notions of equality. But inequality was central to the process — the inequality between Convention signatories and non-signatories, between countries with an independent economy, and dependent states, and so on. This stands to reason — if we were exchanging refugees between two equal countries (as Nordic countries sometimes do) it would have no strategic effect at all./p
pThe “regional” rhetoric of the Malaysian mandatory detention fooled no-one paying attention. Now it, and Pacific mandatory detention, are being re-examined as a tool for people management by those who were never fooled by the official version./p
pBernard Keane gave a policy-led utilitarian version assessment of it in these pages some months ago, arguing for a boat-deterrent policy coupled with an increase in official refugee intake. In his blog and in emThe Age/em, Robert Manne has give a more, erm, performative take on the whole thing, arguing a similar policy./p
pGiven the horrors of mass drownings, it’s worth taking their arguments seriously — a great deal more so than the endless position skirmishes of the major parties. But both positions are nevertheless found wanting./p
pThe problem that Keane and Manne have to deal with is this. Our commitment to refugees is an argument based on human rights, and on a categorical imperative. The Convention we are signed up to makes a promise to any potential refugee that if they reach our shores, they have the right to make a claim for asylum. Recent laws we have put in place may interfere with that treaty/promise, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t made it./p
pThe extreme form of such a morality would suggest that we make no consideration of the situation of refugees before they make landfall, at which point we would accord them full rights. But such abstract positions become immoral in themselves if they become an excuse for allowing great wrong to occur./p
pSo both Manne and Keane put the emphasis on a utilitarian argument — the need to dissuade people from lethal voyages outweighs honouring the rights of others to claim asylum. They are appealing implicitly to the process by which general rights are curtailed for specific good — a compulsory seat-belt law would be one mundane example./p
pYet such an example gives the reasons why overseas mandatory detention can’t be advanced in that way. We make such trade-offs in situations like the seat-belt one, of clear knowledge and limited impact on rights./p
pThe boat-borne refugee situation is the reverse — we are being asked to wholly negate someone’s rights (that we have explicitly promised them), in a situation where their life and freedom will be wholly annihilated indefinitely, all as a strategy for dissuading unknown future persons from making a possibly perilous journey./p
pBy that definition we are using the “deterrent” — the people locked up for years on Manus, Nauru, in Malaysia, or god knows where — as a means to a utilitarian end. It is a clear use of human beings in their totality, as means to other ends, and cannot in any sense ground a moral policy./p
pSuch a negation of the humanity of the present refugee in favour of the welfare of a possible future one thus makes the ultility calculus impossible. The old challenge to utilitarianism was the question as to whether one can torture a small number of people to make a larger number happy./p
pSince we know that prolonged mandatory detention has many of the effects of torture, on adults and children alike, the solution that Rob Manne proposes — overseas detention in Australian de facto dependencies for “lengthy” periods that would deter others — would seem to elevate that philosophical conundrum to the policy level./p
pHow have these two commentators got themselves to this position — negating the irreducible moral base with a utilitarian argument based on unknowable contingencies and outcomes that cannot be guaranteed? Such an over-ride usually occurs when an obligation is honoured partially, and the resulting situation is blamed not on the partiality of the response but on the obligation itself./p
pPut simply, our specific obligation to refugees under the Convention, and our general obligation to fellow human beings means, not a curtailing of the former but an expansion of the latter — in the form of increased sea patrols to the north to make possible the rescue of people in unsafe vessels. Any other activity — harsh prosecution of users of unsafe boats, warnings in third country — may be a good idea, but they are not central to the moral obligation./p
pBoth Keane and Manne would respond, I suspect, that there is no chance of that being a realistic policy option — and in the absence of one, the current half-cut muddle will continue to see human disasters occur. But that then becomes a question as to what one is actually doing in voicing an opinion and arguing a case. Is it really, as both seem to argue, to provide the government of the day with a policy?/p
pOr is the role to stand up for what we believe to be irreducibly right — right not by emotion, but by well-argued reason from fundamental principles, capable of debate — and seek to repeatedly make those issues clear as they are ceaselessly covered over by, well by notions like “offshore processing”.span id=more-266699/spanMaking those issues clear would be done by making clear the fundamental political question that no politician will put — are we going to stay within the Convention, or are we not? Surely anyone who wants an honest debate and decision would want that question to rise to the surface./p
pEither we stay with the Convention, and honour its obligations – and further obligations that arise from those — or we repudiate it. Putting the question thus is first of all, simply honest — but I suspect it would also make clear to people eager to impose desert prisons etc, exactly what they are repudiating, about themselves as much as anything./p
pThat seems to be the only moral approach of any honest commentator from any side regarding the issue. In that respect, Rob’s approach in his two recent pieces has served to put the debate about as badly arse-about as one could imagine./p
pTo be swept up in Rob’s grandiose mea culpa, assailing the Left for failing to provide the government with a refugee policy, is merely irritating in its implicit claim to leadership of a political formation of which he is not really a member./p
pBut the wider suggestion — that it is the role of activists and writers to provide governments with pre-packaged compromises, is simply a mistake, and a more serious one, about what such people should do, what their role is./p
pI think Rob knows that, and I think the brief sunlit days of the Rudd era, when it looked like public intellectuals etc might have a direct line to the Lodge, is leading him astray on that one./p
pThe anti-mandatory detention campaign, which came from the Left, has a simple demand — that the country live up to its freely taken-on treaty obligations – that puts it firmly in the tradition of the Left giving heft to campaigns that liberals and centrists can’t or won’t push through./p
pSuch campaigns may demand strategic compromise, but they defeat themselves if that involves turning core principles into their opposite. From Mabo back to Charter 77, to the Moratorium, to Wave Hill, to Selma, Alabama, and back further, such core demands are how progress gets done. I would have thought that was understood — indeed I would have thought that some still, small voice might have told Rob that the week Vaclav Havel died was a bad one to float the idea of a prison archipelago as a progressive cause./p

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pWhat strikes the visitor to Perth most forcefully, and most immediately, is its air of self-confidence. While politicians and commentators in the east like to play down the potential longevity of the west’s current mining boom — the better, one suspects, to keep a href=http://www.disposablewords.net/?p=4950the romantic secessionist rumblings/a in check — those who actually live here have a uranium-glow of optimism about them./p
pWhen I was here in January, I was told by a woman who works on an offshore oil rig that what the state was actually experiencing was “not a boom”, but rather “a boom within a boom”. On the first day of my most recent visit, I was told that the latter of these booms, the what-the-hell-is-water boom, would last “a hundred years”. This prospective timeframe accords nicely with the comments of Perth’s recently re-elected lord mayor, Lisa Scaffidi, who a href=http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/wa/10486616/perth-about-to-enter-new-era-says-mayor/last week told reporters/a that the city is on the brink of its “Belle Époque”./p
pIt almost goes without saying that the honour of hosting this year’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting fits in perfectly with the city’s idea of itself as a cultural and economic powerhouse. That Perth should have been chosen as the site for this get-together is seen to be indicative of its growing importance, not only within the context of this country’s national accounts, but on a larger, global scale, too. Far from a href=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/opinion/indias-absence-a-serious-failure/story-e6frgd0x-1226173456478being hassled with all the trans-continental flights/a, the thinking goes, world leaders should feel honoured to be coming to one of the most remote cities in the world. Perth, the thinking continues, is worth it./p
pAnd yet things haven’t been quite soem belle/em in the emépoque/em leading up to the meeting. Anti-CHOGM protesters, making common cause with the increasing transnational a href=http://occupyperth.org/Occupy/a movement, are very loudly planning to a href=http://www.chogmprotest.org/march on the event’s opening/a. Organisers’ houses have been a href=http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/chogm-protest-organisers-claim-homes-raided-phones-confiscated-20111014-1log2.htmlraided on dubious grounds/a and said organisers interrogated about their plans. (After Occupy Melbourne and the manner in which it was put down, Perth’s organisers have started to back away from a href=http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/breaking/10089596/protesters-vow-to-break-chogm-security-lines/their original plans/a and are now claiming they have a href=http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/full-coverage/chogm-2011/a/-/article/10724937/perth-protesters-worried-by-police-tactics/no intention to enter or occupy restricted areas/a. Somewhat less sensibly, they have also started claiming that CHOGM is a meeting of the 1%, rather overlooking the GDP per capita of several of the countries that are actually attending it.)/p
pPerth’s prisons — and this is my favourite of the recent security-related news stories — have been ordered to a href=http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/breaking/10485450/barnett-rejects-chogm-prison-fears/make sure they have enough room to handle mass arrests/a, the sort of order that makes such arrests sound, not only possible, but inevitable. Indeed, the feeling one gets, in the ore-speckled air, is less that of a European city in its golden age than a punitive-minded police state cranking into gear. One can only assume, in other words, that the city’s 100 years of enlightenment are on hold until next week, when Queen Elizabeth II is safely aboard her chartered jet and somewhere out over the Indian Ocean./p
pWalking around Perth’s CBD on Saturday, the signs of the security ramp-up were subtle but many. They were also quite literally signs. Hundreds of them, sandbagged to the ground or zip-tied to light poles, have appeared without fail at 10-metre intervals all up and down St George’s Terrace and Riverside Drive, warning the reader that he is entering a CHOGM security zone and may thus, among other humiliations, be searched without warning. Like signs in airports that prohibit photography, which one always feels a strange compulsion to photograph, these signs stir one’s nascent urge towards civil disobedience./p
pYou find yourself wanting to steal one of these signs, put it in your bag, and then get the attention of the nearest police officer so that he might search you without warning and find it./p
pThe nearest police officer shouldn’t be too far away. On Hay Street Mall, a seven-strong posse, blue limbs sprouting from their fluorescent yellow torsos, made their way along a predetermined route, scoping things out. Meeting another three of their ilk coming at them in the other direction, the seven stopped to form a quorum of 10 in the middle of the mall, before each group went its separate way./p
pOf course, those aforementioned 10 police officers — the seven on their route-mapping mission and the other three keeping the 16-year-olds in the mall under observation — had divided and multiplied by yesterday, when the full-scale APECisation of Perth really got under way. With Julia Gillard flying into town ahead of today’s cabinet meeting, hundreds of uniformed and plain-clothes police, in marked and unmarked cars, took to the streets. Some of them will have a href=http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/full-coverage/chogm-2011/a/-/article/10497286/police-graduates-ready-for-chogm-beat/only recently completed their training/a. Others won’t even be a href=http://au.gwn7.yahoo.com/w1/news/a/-/state/10360728/fly-in-force-for-large-chogm-police-contingent/from this side of the country/a. And that’s just the heat that the ground will be packing./p
pA $600 million Boeing 737 AEWamp;C, or Wedgetail, will be a href=http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/full-coverage/chogm-2011/a/-/article/10625806/high-tech-plane-to-scan-for-threats/airborne every day of the meeting/a, the better to fire laser beams at anyone who’s feeling lucky (or so the very excitable emWest Australian/em would have you believe). Eight a href=http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/full-coverage/chogm-2011/a/-/article/10502382/raaf-fighters-to-boost-firepower-over-perth/RAAF F/A-18 Hornets/a and several Black Hawk helicopters — the latter of which have been heard throbbing over the city like mechanised blowflies all week — will be stationed at Base Pearce, 35 kilometres north of the city, in case anyone should run at anyone with a starter’s pistol. (Talk about keeping calm and carrying on, by the way. Prince Charles was a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9kbOTJGkT8straightening his cuffs throughout the entire incident/a. As much as you hate him, you’ve got to love him.) The Wedgetail and the Hornets will be flying trial runs over the city today and tomorrow./p
pIf the behaviour of the police on the weekend was anything to go by, they’ll be spending more time flying over the mall than they will over the security zone itself. On Saturday, at least, the latter had hardly anyone in it. Down there, besides the naff floral arrangement that spells “CHOGM 2011” atop a grassy knoll, and the large Hollywood-sign letters that spell “PERTH” and that, from a certain angle on Fraser Avenue in Kings Park, appear like a name tag on the breast pocket of the city, the country town deadness of a lazy weekend afternoon was complemented by a more insidious sense that one probably shouldn’t have been down there at all. One thing the police have been relying on this week is that media coverage of their plans might to help generate a sort of self-policing city./p
pAs for Fraser Avenue itself, the only street besides those directly adjacent to Government House that is going to be closed to all traffic for the duration of the meeting, it remained untouched on Saturday afternoon, with neither the yellow-vested keepers of the peace or the blue-and-white-checked threats against one’s orifices. But then, there was a mining industry function at the restaurant atop the hill that night, and one doubts that the city would have wanted to put any of its captains of industry out./p

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pa href=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/support-for-pms-partners-slumps-in-newspoll-as-windsor-and-oakeshott-defy-voters/story-fn59niix-1226174598855The Australian/a brings results of a Newspoll survey conducted from Tuesday to Saturday in Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott’s regional NSW seats of a href=http://www.crikey.com.au/fed2010-newenglandNew England/a and a href=http://www.crikey.com.au/fed2010-lyneLyne/a. The polls targeted about 500 voters each, producing margins of error of a little under 4.5 per cent. As expected, the results indicate a plunge in support for the incumbents since the election and their subsequent decision to back a Labor minority government. In New England, the poll has Tony Windsor at 33 per cent compared with 61.9 per cent at the election, with the Nationals at 41 per cent compared with 25.2 per cent. In Lyne, Rob Oakeshott’s primary vote is at 26 per cent compared with 47.1 per cent at the 2010 election, and the Nationals are at 47 per cent compared with 34.4 per cent. /p
pDetermining two-candidate preferred results for individual electorates in circumstances so radically different from the previous election is problematic, and Newspoll has done the best that could be done under the circumstances by publishing both previous-election and respondent-allocated measures. In New England, the previous election measure has Windsor and the Nationals tied at 50-50. Unfortunately we do not have a full set of primary vote figures at this stage, but it would seem to me from the two-candidate result that the “others” vote (excluding Windsor, Nationals, Labor and Greens) must be in the mid-teens. iUPDATE: Full tables a href=http://ghostwhovotes.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/newspoll-111024-independents.pdfhere/a courtesy of GhostWhoVotes – “others” is at 14 per cent in Lyne and 13 per cent in New England./i At the 2010 election it was only 1.2 per cent, that being the combined total for One Nation and the Citizens Electoral Council. To apply these parties’ preference distribution to such a large chunk of the vote is obviously imprecise at best. The respondent-allocated preference measure has Windsor trailing 53-47, but this has problems of its own – in particular it requires respondents to make up their own mind, when many will in fact follow how-to-vote cards. /p
pIn Lyne, Rob Oakeshott trails 62-38 on respondent-allocated preferences and 55-45 on the previous election results. Similarly to the New England poll, the latter figure appears to have been obtained by amplifying a mid-teens “others” vote through the 2010 preference distribution of one independent who polled 0.7 per cent. While this is by any measure a depressing set of figures for Oakeshott, it is a good deal better for him than a ReachTel automated phone poll conducted in August, which had the Nationals leading 55 per cent to 15 per cent on the primary vote. That poll was rightly criticised at the time for asking about the carbon tax and pokies reform before getting to voting intention. It may also raise doubts about the precision of automated phone polling, which in this country at least has a patchy record (though it seems to be a different story in the United States)./p
pAnother difficulty with polls for these two seats is that it is not yet clear which candidates the Nationals will be running, which can have a very significant bearing on regional seats especially. After initially stating he wasn’t interested, the party’s state leader Andrew Stoner has recently said he would “never say never” to the prospect of running in Lyne, with earlier reports suggesting he was being “courted” to make such a move with a view to replacing Warren Truss as federal leader. This was said to be partly motivated by a desire to block a similar move by Barnaby Joyce, who has declared his interest in New England. However, Tony Abbott has said the candidate in Lyne from 2010, Port Macquarie medical specialist David Gillespie, would get “wholehearted support” if he wanted to run again. According to a a href=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/a-well-wound-clock-is-counting-down-to-tony-time/story-fn59niix-1226173368969flattering profile/a of Abbott by Tom Dusevic in The Weekend Australian, Gillespie is a “boyhood friend” of Abbott’s./p
pNewspoll also sought approval ratings for the two independents and gauged opinion on their decisions to support the Labor minority government and the carbon tax legislation. This provided one heartening result for Tony Windsor, who retains the approval of 50 per cent of his constituents with 44 per cent disapproving i(UPDATE: Sorry, got that the wrong way around)/i. Rob Oakeshott’s respective ratings are 38 per cent and 54 per cent. Voters in Lyne were the more hostile to their member’s support for the Labor government: 32 per cent were supportive and 61 opposed, against 36 per cent and 54 per cent in New England. The results on the carbon tax seem to have been effectively identical, with respective opposition of 72 per cent and 71 per cent. Only 22 per cent of respondents in Lyne were supportive; The Australian’s article neglects to provide a figure for New England, but it can be presumed to have been very similar./p
pUPDATE: The a href=http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/files/2011/10/Essential-Report_241011.pdfweekly Essential Research/a has the two-party preferred steady at 55-45, although Labor is off a point on the primary to 32 per cent with the Coalition and the Greens steady on 48 per cent and 11 per cent respectively. My favourite of the supplementary questions, as it was at my suggestion, gauges current opinion of major reforms of the past few decades, which gives a resounding thumbs-up to compulsory superannuation and Medicare, strong support to floating the dollar and free trade agreements, a fairly modest majority in favour of the GST. Privatisations, however, are opposed in retrospect as well as prospect, although reversing those already conducted has only bare majority support. For some reason though, more support regulating the dollar than thought it was a bad idea in the first place, and a big majority favour increasing trade protection. Other questions relate to a republic (41 per cent for, 33 per cent against), the Commonwealth (47 per cent believe membership of benefit) and succession to the throne (61 per cent believe it should be gender-neutral) and who is to blame for the Qantas dispute (management by and large)./p

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pstrongFISH REPORT for Oct. 20/strong/p

pstrongCompiled by Jim Matthews/strong/p

pstronga href=http://www.OutdoorNewsService.comwww.OutdoorNewsService.com/a/strong/p

pThe fish report is weekly. Its accuracy depends on marina
operators, tackle shops and local fishermen we contact. Anglers
catching large fish should send the information to Outdoor News
Service, P.O. Box 9007, San Bernardino, CA 92427, or telephone
909-887-3444, so it can be included in this report. Faxes can be
sent to 909-887-8180. E-Mail messages or fishing reports can also
be posted to Jim Matthews at a href=mailto:odwriter@verizon.netodwriter@verizon.net/a./p

pThis report is published by 11 daily newspapers in Southern
California each week. Frequently it is edited for space. A complete
version is available through our Outdoor News Service web site
(www.OutdoorNewsService.com). The updated report is usually posted
by Thursday afternoon. The fish report is copyrighted and any use
or reposting of the report, or portions of the report, is
prohibited without written permission. Posting of links to the
Outdoor News Service web site is allowed./p

pThe Outdoor News Service is also on Facebook with updated
reports and photos posted throughout the week. The Twitter account
name is MatthewsOutdoor. For our latest fishing information, use
these sites./p

pThe Cal TIP number, the Department of Fish and Game poacher
hotline, is 1-888-DFG-CALTIP. The DFG’s Internet web page is
located at the following address: a href=http://www.dfg.ca.govwww.dfg.ca.gov/a./p

pstrongMATTHEWS’ PICKS OF THE WEEK/strong/p

p1. Corona Lake’s trout season has started with a bang after a
big plant last week and another for this week. Limits of trout to
three pounds were common for anglers fishing near the dam, and this
bite will just get better as the season progresses. Most of the
action has been on small artificials. For an update on this bite
and more information, call the tackle shop at 951-277-3321./p

p2. The Diamond Valley Lake striper bite is also very good and
many anglers are still getting limits of stripers every trip to the
lake. Most of the action is for bait fishermen fishing deep water,
but with DFG trout plants coming every other week. The big swimbait
action is not far away. Call the marina at 951-926-7201 or Last
Chance Bait and Tackle at 951-658-7410 for the latest on this
bite./p

p3. The striper bite has been steadily improving in Lake Havasu
and the heat has finally abated. It’s finally time to think about
the Colorado River for boiling stripers and jerk baits. The quality
of the fish has improved, too, with lots of four to six pounders.
For an update on this bite and where the boils have been, check
with the guys at Bass Tackle Master at 928-854-2277./p

pstrongFRESHWATER HOT SPOTS/strong/p

pstrongTROUT:/strong Best action in Southern California has
been at Corona Lake after its first major plant last week. Most
other urban lake programs start the first of November, but Hesperia
Lake gets its first fish this Friday. Other good bets include Lake
Hemet where limits have been pretty easy for experienced trollers.
Green Valley Lake has been surprisingly good, and Big Bear Lake and
Jenks Lake are both pretty fair. Jess Ranch in Hesperia has been
getting trout all year and it is good, too. Trout action in the
Sierra Nevada is generally good most places as the cool weather
sets in and the hillsides color up for fall. Good bets are the
Virginia Lakes, Twin Lakes in Bridgeport, Bridgeport Reservoir,
Grant and Silver Lakes in the June Loop, the brook trout bite is
good in all the Mammoth Lakes, South Lake is very good in the
Bishop Creek drainage, and there is light pressure everywhere. For
fly anglers, Crowley Lake is very good and the East Walker River
flows are down and the action is breaking wide open./p

pBLACK BASS: Most of the lakes in the region are still seeing
good topwater and reaction bait action early and late in the day.
During the day, the fish generally sound to deeper structure where
they can be caught on dark plastics, but that bite is much tougher.
Top bets are still Diamond Valley, Lake Perris, Otay, El Capitan,
and Piru. On the Colorado River, Havasu is improving and it took
over a three-pound average fish to win a weekend tournament./p

pstrongSTRIPED BASS:/strong Striper bites continued good this
past week with Castaic, Pyramid and Diamond Valley still the top
bets for topwater action and getting nice stringers of fish.
Silverwood and Skinner are both fair to good. The California
aqueduct near Taft is improving again with cooler water and the
weed problem abating. Lots of fish to four or five pounds. On the
Colorado River, there have been a lot of quality fish to 20 pounds
or better at Willow Beach. Havasu is breaking open with some good
action in the main body of the lake again, mostly early and late on
topwater and jerkbaits./p

pPANFISH: There’s still very good bluegill and redear action at
Perris, Diamond Valley Lake, and Skinner, just like for the past
several weeks, and the Silverwood bite remains very strong. Piru,
Castaic and Casitas are fair to good on the bluegill and/or redear,
too. The Henshaw crappie bite had fewer reports this past week, but
still has been fair. Piru also continues to have a good crappie
bite and the Casitas afterbay has also been a decent bet./p

pCATFISH: The Colorado River is fair to good for catfish with
flatheads and channels showing in good numbers but with very light
fishing pressure. The action has been good on flatheads to 20
pounds and channels to eight pounds most weeks, but reports are
fleeting. Southern California lakes are all fair to good. Catfish
planting season is winding down most places. Top picks are Hesperia
Lake and Santa Ana River Lakes, which are all still being planted
with cats each week. Other good catfish bets are Irvine, Skinner,
Diamond Valley, Silverwood, and Pyramid./p

pstrongSAN DIEGO AREA LAKES/strong/p

pstrongBARRETT:/strong Closed until spring. Reservations can
be made through Ticketmaster (800-745-3000 or
a href=http://www.ticketmaster.comwww.ticketmaster.com/a). Lake information: 619-465-3474 or
a href=http://www.sandiego.gov/water/recreation/www.sandiego.gov/water/recreation//a./p

pstrongHODGES:/strong There were 57 anglers who landed 36
bass and 10 channel cats over the three fishing days this past
week. The lake will close to fishing Oct. 30 until spring.
Bowfishing for carp is allowed at this lake. Open only on
Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday with boat rentals available all
three days. Rental boat and concession information:
760-432-2023./p

pstrongEL CAPITAN:/strong There were 66 anglers who landed
215 bass over the four fishing days this past week. Bowfishing for
carp is now allowed here. The lake is open Thursday through Monday
with boat rentals available all five days (closed to fishing on
Sundays). From Oct. 17 through Nov. 13, El Cap will be open on a
Friday through Sunday schedule. General lake information:
619-465-3474 or a href=http://www.sandiego.gov/water/recreation/www.sandiego.gov/water/recreation//a. Rental boat and
concession information: 619-443-4110./p

pstrongLOWER OTAY:/strong There were 137 anglers who caught
354 bass to 5.3 pounds, 70 bluegill to .9 pounds, three channel
cats to 7.2 pounds and two crappie to 2.55 pounds over the three
fishing days this past week. Bowfishing for carp is now allowed
here. The lake is open on a Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday
schedule and boat rentals are available all three days. General
lake information: 619-465-3474 or
a href=http://www.sandiego.gov/water/recreation/www.sandiego.gov/water/recreation//a. Rental boat and concession
information: 619-397-5212./p

pstrongUPPER OTAY:/strong There were 17 anglers who caught 38
bass to 6.2 pounds and 18 bluegill to .6 pounds over the three
fishing days this past week. The lake is open on a Wednesday,
Saturday, and Sunday for catch-and-release fishing (only artificial
lures with single, barbless hooks), sunrise to sunset. The road to
Upper Otay is closed, but anglers can still walk in. Lake
information: 619-465-3474 (recording) or 619-397-5212 (concession)
or a href=http://www.sandiego.gov/water/recreation/www.sandiego.gov/water/recreation//a./p

pstrongMURRAY:/strong No report. Lake information:
619-465-3474 or a href=http://www.sandiego.gov/water/recreation/www.sandiego.gov/water/recreation//a. There are boat
rentals Friday through Sunday and the new concession number is
619-466-4847./p

pstrongMIRAMAR:/strong No report. The lake is open for
fishing seven days a week. Rental boats are available on Saturday
and Sunday. Lake information: 619-465-3474 or
a href=http://www.sandiego.gov/water/recreation/www.sandiego.gov/water/recreation//a. New boat rental and concession
information: 858-527-1722./p

pstrongSUTHERLAND:/strong Closed until spring. Lake
information: 619-465-3474 or a href=http://www.sandiego.gov/water/recreation/www.sandiego.gov/water/recreation//a.
Rental boat reservations: 619-668-2050 or a href=mailto:ssmith@sandiego.govssmith@sandiego.gov/a./p

pstrongWOHLFORD:/strong The bass bite has been fair to good
on dark plastics with some fish showing on cranks and topwater
baits mornings and evenings. No catfish or crappie reports this
past week, but a few bluegill continue to show on meal worms and
wax worms. Fishing is now only allowed on weekends until trout
season opens in December, and private boat launching is not allowed
because of Quagga mussel fears. Information: 760-839-4346 or
a href=http://www.wohlfordlake.comwww.wohlfordlake.com/a./p

pstrongDOANE POND:/strong DFG trout plants this week and
three weeks ago./p

pstrongDIXON LAKE:/strong The catfish bite has continued fair
to good on cut baits in the early morning. The first trout plant of
the fall is tentatively set for Nov. 2 and the 33rd annual Dixon
Trout Derby will be held Nov. 10-13. No State fishing license
required here. Lake information: 760-839-4680 or
a href=http://www.dixonlake.comwww.dixonlake.com/a./p

pstrongPOWAY:/strong Trout season is set to kick off with a
3,000-pound plant Nov. 9. The lake will be closed to fishing Nov.
9-10, and reopen on Friday, Nov. 11 for trout season. Plants will
generally be every two weeks this season with bonus trophy fish
plants in December and March. Continued fair catfish action with
the best bite tight to the weed lines on fly-lined cut baits or
nightcrawlers. Top action has been at Jump Off Point, the Log Boom,
and Hidden Bay. The fish continue to move deeper as the water
cools. Still fair action on bluegill and redear around the fishing
pier and along most weed lines. Also fair bass action with more
fish up chasing cranks and topwater baits mornings and afternoons
with some fish on drop-shotted plastics through the middle part of
the day. Lake open Wednesday through Sunday with only shoreline
fishing allowed on weekdays. A state fishing license no longer
required here. Lake information: 858-668-4772, tackle shop
recording 858-486-1234, or a href=http://www.poway.orgwww.poway.org/a./p

pstrongJENNINGS:/strong The catfish have been providing the
best action this past week with the best bite in 60 to 80 feet of
water on the south side of the buoy line with mackerel and chicken
liver. The best bass action has been on drop-shotted plastics on
rock bottoms where they abut weed lines on crawdad-type lures or
plastics. The topwater action fizzled this past week. Top spots
have been the west side of Sentry and Eagle points. Trout season is
set to begin this month with the first plant slated for Oct. 24 and
then each week after that through March next year. Each Mt. Lassen
plant will be 1,000 pounds or trout averaging a pound each. The
lake is open Friday through Sunday. Free fishing class 1 p.m.
Sunday on how best to catch Jennings catfish. Information:
619-390-1300 or a href=http://www.lakejennings.orgwww.lakejennings.org/a./p

pstrongMORENA:/strong Fair mixed bag action with light
fishing pressure. Catfish action the best bet on cut baits in
Horseshoe and Gizzer coves. Bluegill are good in most coves in less
than 20 feet of water, with the bass showing on plastics and cranks
in 20 feet with Horseshoe and Paradise coves the best bets. Most of
the bass are small. Information: 24-hour fishing update line
619-478-5473, ranger station 619-579-4101, or a href=http://lakemorena.comlakemorena.com/a./p

pstrongCUYAMACA:/strong There continues to be a fair to good
trout bite, with a few bass, catfish and crappie showing. Top trout
was a 4.8-pounder landed by Kurt Record, San Diego, to top off his
five-trout limit landed on jigs at the Lone Pine Tree. Jeff
Tinderholt, Chula Vista, landed five to three pounds on orange
Power Bait at the finger jetty. Eric Predmore, Ramona, landed four
rainbows to 2-8. Private boats are allowed on the lake, including
canoes and kayaks now, but the boats must be sprayed for quagga
mussels by a high-pressure heated wash prior to entering the lake.
The cost is $10 for the spraying and it lasts for multiple trips to
Cuyamaca as long as the boat is not used in another reservoir. The
decontamination wash down station is for all craft and items used
in the water, including boats, motors, kayak, canoes, float tubes
and waders. Information: 760-765-0515 or a href=http://www.lakecuyamaca.orgwww.lakecuyamaca.org/a./p

pstrongHENSHAW:/strong Fewer crappie reports again this past
week but the catfish bite has remain pretty fair. Michael Portnoy,
Beverly Hills, landed a nine-pound cat on corn meal dough bait.
Mike Erwin, San Diego, had seven cats to four pounds on
nightcrawlers. Mike Butcher, Santa Ysabel, landed seven cats to 2-8
and three crappie around a pound. Jake Howard, Pasadena, had seven
cats to two pounds and five crappie to 1-8. Tom Johnson, Ramona,
had four cats and a crappie with his best cat at four pounds. Also
a few nice bass showing. Donald Reynolds, Los Angeles, landed three
bass to 4-8 and four crappie to two pounds. Art Carrasco, Henshaw,
had four bass to six pounds. All private boats must be checked and
washed down for zebra and quagga mussels. Henshaw is open until 10
p.m. on Friday and Saturday nights, closing at dusk the rest of the
week. Information: 760-782-3501./p

pstrongRIVERSIDE COUNTY/strong/p

pstrongDIAMOND VALLEY:/strong The striper bite was wide open
over this past weekend with the majority of the action on cut
sardines and anchovies in 80 to 120 feet of water. Quite a few
limits of fish. The largemouth bite also remains very good with
some topwater still in the mornings, but the majority of the fish
are showing on plastics fished drop-shot or Texas-rigged with
bigger fish in the 25 to 50 depths, but fish showing from the
surface all the way down. Good catfish action on cut baits and
nightcrawlers in 20 to 30 feet of water in most coves with the
attenuator and Cove 3 the hot spots for shore anglers. Bluegill
slowed, but still a few showing on nightcrawler pieces. Crappie
very slow. The DFG planted trout last week and the first Mt. Lassen
plant is set for next week. Private boats must be inspected for
zebra and quagga mussels. Boats with wet lower units will be turned
away. For general lake and launch information, call 800-590-LAKE.
For fishing and boat rental info call the marina at 951-926-7201 or
a href=http://www.dvmarina.comwww.dvmarina.com/a or Last Chance Bait and Tackle at 951-658-7410 or
a href=http://www.lastchancetackle.comwww.lastchancetackle.com/a./p

pstrongPERRIS:/strong The panfish action remains good, but
the cooler water is pushing the fish deeper. The redear are still
showing on the east side of the island in good numbers and the tire
reef and marina have been good for a mix of both redear and
bluegill, with the odd crappie still showing in this bite. Best
action on small jigs tipped with meal worms, crickets, or wax
worms. The bass are best on surface lures until about 11 a.m. on
the main lake points and at the dam, but there has also been a
pretty good bite in the east end. A few cats continue to show in
the evenings at Lots 11 and 12, mostly on cut baits or
nightcrawlers. DFG trout plants this week and two weeks ago. As of
Oct. 1, the park and marina are now closed on Tuesday and Wednesday
each week (but anglers can still walk in or bicycle in on those
days). New hours are 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Marina hours 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Information: marina 951-657-2179, state park 951-940-5600./p

pstrongSKINNER:/strong The lake record for bluegill was
broken on Friday when James Mehan, Winchester, landed a three-pound
bluegill fishing chicken liver at the dam buoy line. Overall, the
bluegill are still fair with quite a few quality fish in the
one-pound range being caught. There has been fair to good catfish
and striper action. The stripers have been best at the dam, the
inlet, and main lake points on cut baits./p

pRogelio Asishio, Temecula, landed 10 stripers that weighed 26
pounds to three pounds fishing chicken liver at the inlet. Courtney
and David Conway, El Cajon, landed four stripers and catfish on
anchovies at the buoy line at the stringer weighed 21 pounds,
anchored by an eight-pound catfish. The catfish action is best on
cut baits and nightcrawlers. The largemouth bass action is fair
early and late in the day with the best bite along the south shore
and into the east end. Some topwater, but most of the action is in
15 to 30 feet of water on drop-shot plastics. No carp reports.
Information: store 951-926-1505 or marina 951-926-8515./p

pstrongELSINORE:/strong The catfish bite is still fair to
good and fishing pressure is very light. The fish are nice quality
cats to eight pounds with an occasional bigger fish. The bluegill
bite is good and they are showing along most shorelines on meal
worms, wax worms, red worms, and nightcrawlers pieces. There has
also been a trickle of quality wipers averaging about six pounds
showing up most weekends, and the largemouth bass are very spotty.
Carp are good for the specialists fishing the dough baits,
especially with the Total Carp Kit. The carp bow fishermen are
having a tough time with the fish mostly in deeper water now. For
more information, call William’s Bait, Tackle, and Boat Rental at
951-642-0640 or go to a href=http://www.williamsboatandtackle.comwww.williamsboatandtackle.com/a./p

pstrongCORONA LAKE:/strong The trout season started with a
bang with limits of rainbows to three pounds or a little better
pretty common for anglers fishing near the dam from shore, float
tube, or boat this past week. The best trout action has been on
small trout jigs, trout plastics, and floating dough baits, and the
cooler, deeper water at the dam has been the best spot for the
trout action. One of the top stringers reported this past week was
a 15-fish, 28 1/2-pound catch of Sierra Bows made by Robert Vega,
Orange, fishing a garlic dough bait at the dam. Matthew Olney,
Montebello, and Greg Schowen, Fontana, had 10 rainbows for
22-pounds. Betty Kerr, Yucca Valley, landed 10 rainbows for 18
pounds, while Vaughn Densley, Huntington Beach, had 10 trout for 17
3/4 pounds. Richard and Sonni Rivera, Murrieta, landed 15 trout for
24 pounds, and Louie and Mike Castianeda, Baldwin Park, had 10
trout for 16 1/2 pounds. Mike Marquez, Beaumont, landed a 3
1/2-pounder to top off his five-fish 13 1/2-pound catch, and Adam
Paulson, Redlands, had five fish for 12 pounds. Mark Thomsom,
Riverside, landed five for 11 1/2 pounds while Alex Saucedo,
Menifee, had five for 11 pounds. Catfish are also still good on cut
baits. An 8 1/4-pounder was caught by Tony Hui, West Covina,
fishing mackerel from a boat. Bill Cooper, Dave Porter, and Bob
Schempp, all Los Angeles, had 15 channel cats for 38 pounds with a
seven-pounder their best fish. Tom Pearcy, La Verne, landed five
cats for 13 pounds. Trout plants are now each week. No state
fishing license is required here. Information: 951-277-3321 or log
on at a href=http://www.fishinglakes.comwww.fishinglakes.com/a./p

pstrongEVANS LAKE:/strong Mostly tough action with just a few
bass and a few panfish for the bank walkers. The bass are best on
small reaction baits and topwater early and late, while the
bluegill are still best on wax worms or meal worms fished near
structure. Also some carp showing on dough baits./p

pstrongRANCHO JURUPA:/strong Slow fishing, but trout season
plants are set to kick off Friday, Nov. 4. Information:
951-684-7032./p

pstrongFISHERMAN’S RETREAT:/strong No report. Information:
909-795-0171./p

pstrongLITTLE LAKE:/strong Overall slow action. Hours are 7
a.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday. Entrance fee is $10 per
person, with a $3 per angler fishing fee. Kids five to 12 pay only
a $5 entry fee. Kids under five only have to pay the fishing fee
(if they fish). A state fishing license is required to fish here
and regular state limits apply. Access is now off Stetson in the
former Lake Hemet shop/yard (not off Thornton) in Hemet. The lake
phone is 530-526-7937./p

pstrongREFLECTION LAKE:/strong Information: 951-654-7906 or
a href=http://www.reflectionlakerv.comwww.reflectionlakerv.com/a./p

pstrongJEAN’S CHANNEL CATS:/strong The catfish bite remains
good on cut baits, nightcrawlers, and stink baits. Trout season is
set to kick off with the first plant of the season on Nov. 9. The
lake is open only on weekends Friday through Sunday from 8 a.m. to
5 p.m., and on Monday holidays. No state fishing license is
required to fish here. Information: 951-679-6562 or
951-259-2021./p

pstrongSAN JACINTO MOUNTAIN WATERS/strong/p

pstrongLAKE HEMET:/strong Good trout action continues with
many anglers getting limits or near limits in the The Triangle (the
point to the spillway to the dam and back to the point). Shore
anglers are doing as well on inflated nightcrawlers or orange and
green Power Bait. Most of the rainbows are eight to 14 inches long
with a few bigger holdover fish. Bluegill pretty good in the
shallows on small jigs, flies, worms, meal worms, crickets or wax
worms but this bite is slowing down. Catfish have also slowed in
the cooling water. Bass and carp slow. Carp bowfishing is allowed
Monday through Thursday but bowfishermen must check in first. Lake
open daily from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Boat inspections for quagga
mussels are $7 and banding is $3. Half-price boat rentals weekdays.
Information: Lake Hemet campground 951-659-2680 or
a href=http://www.lakehemetcampground.comwww.lakehemetcampground.com/a./p

pstrongLAKE FULMORE:/strong No recent DFG plants in Fulmore
or nearby Strawberry Creek. Information: 951-659-2117./p

pstrongSAN BERNARDINO MOUNTAIN WATERS/strong/p

pstrongSILVERWOOD:/strong First DFG trout plant of the season
went in two weeks ago and another was slated for this week. There
has been a fair bite around the marina and into both Cleghorn and
Miller canyons. There also continues to be a fair striper bite at
the dam and in Chemise on anchovies and swim baits. Art Gutierrez,
Rancho Cucamonga, landed stripers at 21 and seven pounds on Friday.
Jamie Walters, Fullerton, also had a 21-pound striper fishing
anchovies in Miller Canyon. The bluegill bite has continued strong
around the marina and in the rocky mouths of most coves on small
worms, crickets, wax worms, and Gulp! Maggots. Tim Matthews,
Wrightwood, landed 10 bluegill on meal worms at the dock. Catfish
are also pretty good on cut baits, especially chicken liver and
shrimp, in Miller, Cleghorn, and Chemise. Doug Amen, Hesperia, had
12 cats to 13 pounds fishing anchovies at the dam. There has been a
fair largemouth bite in the quarry area, Twin Cove and Live Oak on
Power Worms and jerkbaits with fish to 5-8 reported this past week.
Trout, carp, and crappie all slow. Beginning Oct. 1, the park has
been closed on Wednesday and Thursday each week. This closure is
slated to go through March. Hours are 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. There is a
petition at the Silverwood Country Store to get the lake opened
back up those two days. Information: marina 760-389-2299, state
park 760-389-2281, Silverwood Country store 760-389-2423./p

pstrongBIG BEAR LAKE:/strong The trout bite had been fair
will the cooler evenings dropping the water temperature. Trout are
still best for trollers working from the west ramp to the dam. Bait
anglers are still using a slip bobber in 12 to 20 feet of water and
floating dough baits. The bass action is fair around the
observatory and north shore toward Grout Bay. Jigs and plastics are
best in eight to 20 feet, but there has been some topwater around
the weed beds with both smallmouth to two pounds and largemouth to
three pounds in the action. The crappie action is slow to fair
around sheltered docks and rocky structure, with small, sparkle
jigs the best bet. Most are eight to 10 inches long. Catfish and
bluegill slow. For fishing information: Big Bear Marina
909-866-3218 (or a href=http://www.bigbearmarina.comwww.bigbearmarina.com/a), Big Bear Sporting Goods
909-866-3222./p

pstrongLAKE GREGORY:/strong DFG trout plant two weeks ago. No
reports. For more information, call the Lake Gregory boathouse at
909-338-2233./p

pstrongGREEN VALLEY LAKE:/strong The trout action has
remained good for the few anglers fishing and quite a few quality
trout continue to be landed. Best was a 7-8 caught by Joel Adams,
San Bernardino, on a clear red sparkle jig. Chuck Jewell, Moreno
Valley, had trout at 6-2 and 4-1 on pumpkin-pepper jigs, while Ric
Stephens, Santa Ana, landed a 5-6 on a wooly bugger fly fishing off
the north shore. No more private stocks this season, but the lake
will remain open and charge fees until the water freezes this
winter. Anglers landing trout six pounds or better get a free
tee-shirt. Recorded information: 909-867-2009 and the new website
is a href=http://www.gvlfishing.comwww.gvlfishing.com/a./p

pstrongARROWBEAR LAKE:/strong No recent DFG plants./p

pstrongJENKS LAKE REGION:/strong Trout action has been slow
to fair with an occasional limit posted. Float tube anglers still
having the best luck, but the shore bite is also fair. Top action
on floating baits and small jigs and lures. Most recent DFG plant
was three weeks ago. Most of the trout are pan-sized, but some to
2-8. The Santa Ana River in the Seven Oaks area and the South Fork
are both slated to be stocked this week (the first plant in a
month). Jenks Lake: 909-747-5098. General Information: Mill Creek
Ranger Station at 909-382-2881./p

pstrongHIGH DESERT LAKES/strong/p

pstrongHESPERIA LAKE:/strong The catfish bite has remained
good with plants each week through October including this week’s
stock on Monday The best action has been on cut mackerel or shrimp,
but the marshmallow-meal worm combo is good. Lots of two to
six-pound fish. Trout plants kicked off this week with the first
plant of the season schedule for Friday (pushed back from Tuesday).
Lake hours are 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. with the night session from 1 p.m.
to 10 p.m. Cost is $15 per angler. No state fishing license is
required here. Information: 800-521-6332 or 760-244-5951./p

pstrongJESS RANCH:/strong The unseasonable heat this past
week slowed the afternoon trout bite, but the action is still fair
to good for fish averaging about two pounds. Best bite before 11
a.m. on floating baits, inflated nightcrawlers, trout jigs in
orange or chartreuse, and small trout lures (Jakes and Thomas
Buoyants). Top trout was a 7-4 rainbow landed by Oscar Miranda,
Baldwin Park, on spring green Power Bait. Catfish action perked
with the heat and several anglers reported limits, but the big news
was a 23-3 cat landed by John Sims, Apple Valley on mackerel from
lake three across from the pump house. The bass action is slow to
fair on Senko-type lures and drop-shotted plastics. Also a few
bluegill being caught on meal worms and small jigs near the reeds
in lake two. The lake complex is open every Friday through Sunday
from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., and it is stocked with trout each week on
Friday from its own hatchery. Check the lake’s web site for some
price changes for this summer. Lake information: 760-240-1107 or
a href=http://www.jessranchlakesnews.comwww.jessranchlakesnews.com/a./p

pstrongMOJAVE NARROWS:/strong DFG trout plant two weeks ago.
No reports. County trout plants scheduled to begin in November.
Horseshoe Lake is still closed due to flood damage. Pelican Lake is
remains open. For lake information: 760-245-2226./p

pstrongINLAND VALLEY LAKES/strong/p

pstrongSAN BERNARDINO COUNTY/strong/p

pstrongCUCAMONGA-GUASTI:/strong No report. Trout plants
scheduled to begin in November. Information: 909-481-4205./p

pstrongPRADO:/strong No report. Trout plants scheduled to
begin in November. Small boats (non-inflatable with a hard bottom)
under 16 feet with electric motors are allowed. Information:
909-597-4260./p

pstrongYUCAIPA:/strong No report. Trout plants scheduled to
begin in November. Lake information: 909-790-3127./p

pstrongGLEN HELEN:/strong No report. Trout plants scheduled
to begin in November. Information: 909-887-7540./p

pstrongMOUNT BALDY TROUT POOLS:/strong The heavily stocked
pools are open every Saturday and Sunday. No fishing license is
needed. Information: 909-982-4246./p

pstrongSECCOMBE LAKE:/strong First DFG trout plant of the
season went in last week. Few reports. Information:
909-384-5233./p

pstrongORANGE COUNTY/strong/p

pstrongSANTA ANA RIVER LAKES:/strong Good channel catfish
bite thanks to weekly plants of fish. The best catfish reported was
a six-pounder that topped off an eight-fish, 31 1/2-pound stringer
of cats landed by Santiago Palacios, West Covina, on shrimp at the
road. Jerry Perez, Santa Ana, had nine cats for 20 1/2 pounds
fishing mackerel and nightcrawlers and his best fish was a 3 1/2
pounder. Mike Banks, Orange, landed four cats for 10 1/2 pounds,
while Tom Bickley, Los Angeles, had five cats for 10 pounds. A few
carp and sturgeon also continue to show. Quinn Hickman, Riverside,
landed the top fish of the week, a sturgeon at 12 pounds fishing a
hot dog with garlic off La Palma Point, while Yoslynn and Yousria
Paredes, Long Beach, had five carp for eight pounds from the
Catfish Lake. The catfish plants are continuing each week, and
trout stocking slated to start soon. Other than float tubes, no
water craft are allowed due to fears of invasive quagga mussels
being introduced into the water system. No state fishing license is
required here. Special half-price 24-hour fishing on Monday nights.
Information: 714-632-7851 or log on at a href=http://www.fishinglakes.comwww.fishinglakes.com/a./p

pstrongANAHEIM LAKE:/strong Closed. Anaheim Lake only opens
when Santa Ana River Lakes is closed for cleaning and maintenance.
Information: 714-996-3508 or a href=http://www.fishinglakes.comwww.fishinglakes.com/a./p

pstrongIRVINE LAKE:/strong The fall catfish bite is on. The
action has been very good for anglers fishing cut baits in 10 to 30
feet of water in Sierra Cove, Boat Dock Cove, and along the west
shoreline. Most of the fish are two to seven pounds, but a few
quality fish are showing up. The largemouth bass bite remains fair
to good on plastics or jigs fishing off Rocky Point, the Red Clay
Cliffs, or the west shoreline. Most are two to three pounds. No
trout or crappie anglers this past week, but there have been plenty
of bluegill available for anglers fishing mealworms in brushy
areas. The lake is closed Tuesdays, but there is evening fishing
Friday and Saturday nights. Trout season will kick off Nov. 4, and
the lake will be closed to fishing Oct. 31 through Nov. 3 for
plants. No state fishing license is required here. Lake
information: 714-649-9111 or a href=http://www.irvinelake.netwww.irvinelake.net/a./p

pstrongLAGUNA NIGUEL LAKE:/strong No report. Trout season
opener is set for Wednesday, Nov. 16 when 3,000 pounds of rainbows
will be planted. Plants of 2,000 pounds will be weekly through
April. Information: 949-362-3885 or a href=http://www.lagunaniguellake.comwww.lagunaniguellake.com/a./p

pstrongLOS ANGELES AREA LAKES/strong/p

pstrongCACHUMA:/strong Catfish are still the top bet with
fair to good action on fly-lined mackerel, packaged dough baits,
and chicken liver in Santa Cruz and Sweetwater Bays and Drake’s
Cove. The fish are moving into deeper water, and most are
three-pound class fish. The bass bite is fair on top and shallow
early and late in the day, with the fish whacking blades and
cranks. The fish sound to deeper water in the mid-day and can be
landed on main lake points by spooning, fishing plastics, or jigs.
The bluegill are still pretty good around any stand of tules or
brush on meal worms, red worms, or Gulp! maggots fished under a
bobber. Crappie, redear, and carp have all been slow. Trout are
also slow with a few showing for anglers fishing from show in
Harvey’s tossing Power Bait on long leaders. The first 5,000-pound
trout plant of the season is slated for Nov. 4. Carp bowfishing is
also slow. Free bowfishing permits are available at the entrance
gate. For quagga mussel and the boat launching information, log on
at a href=http://www.sbparks.org/DOCS/Cachuma.htmlhttp://www.sbparks.org/DOCS/Cachuma.html/a. The marina is open
with rental boats available. The boat launch remains open, but
boats must get a quagga mussel inspection. Information:
805-688-4040./p

pstrongCASITAS:/strong Continued light fishing pressure. The
few anglers fishing have found a fair bite on smaller bass on
plastics through the day with some fish on cranks early and late in
the day. There has also been a fair to good bite on redear and
bluegill on nightcrawlers pieces, red worms, and small jigs tipped
with bait. While no bigger cats have been reported this week, there
is still a fair bite in 15 to 20 feet of water off the Sunken
Island and Dead Horse Canyon on mackerel and nightcrawlers pieces.
Very slow trout action. Private boats must be inspected for quagga
mussels and face a 10-day dry dock requirement before being allowed
to launch. The lake is open every day, including all holidays.
Information: 805-649-2043./p

pstrongCASTAIC:/strong The hot surface striper bite lulled
after the rain two weeks ago, but has been slowly coming back on,
and the boiling fish are very mobile, following the bait around the
lake. For bait anglers, the fish have been showing in 40 to 80 feet
of water with cut squid the best bait this past week. The
largemouth bite also slowed, but there is still fair action on
topwater and other reaction baits, drop-shot plastics, and
nightcrawlers in the coves. The better fish have been from deeper
water. The lagoon has been best in the evenings and after dark. The
catfish bite has also been pretty decent in the coves on cut bait
and nightcrawlers at the buoy line and behind the Old SS. Crappie,
bluegill and redear are still showing in most coves and the lagoon,
mostly on wax worms. Information: 661-775-6232 or
a href=http://www.CastaicLake.comwww.CastaicLake.com/a./p

pstrongPIRU:/strong Fair to good bass action in most coves on
plastics and nightcrawlers. Some fish are showing on cranks or
surface baits early and late in the day with fish to two pounds or
a little better. The crappie action has been good on small jigs,
mostly in Cow Cove and Reasoner Cove. The bluegill and redear bite
has been fair on meal worms, wax worms and nightcrawlers pieces in
Reasoner Cove, around the marina, and most other coves. The catfish
action has been fair with few reports. Information: main office at
805-521-1500, x208 or a href=http://www.camplakepiru.comwww.camplakepiru.com/a./p

pstrongPYRAMID:/strong The striped bass topwater action
remains fair to good with boils occurring any time during the day
this past week. Most of the fish are one to three pounders, with
the action best on topwater, jerk baits, and drifted baits. The
bait action is still best at the dam and off the islands in 10 to
40 feet of water on anchovies fly-lined down to the fish. Good
catfish action in the coves on cut baits, and there is good action
on small bluegill in the coves on small baits with some bigger
panfish in deeper water. The bass have been very good on plastics
and nightcrawlers in 12 to 30 feet, with some topwater and reaction
bait action in the mornings and late evenings with the fish
sometimes mixed in with the stripers. Information: Emigrant Landing
entrance booth at 661-295-7155./p

pstrongQUAIL LAKE:/strong No reports./p

pstrongPUDDINGSTONE:/strong Water level is down for work on
launch ramp and fishing is tough overall. A few small bass are
showing, mostly on topwater bait, and there have been a few smaller
bluegill caught. There is a decent bite on crappie for boat and
float tube anglers at the buoys and some catfish are showing off
the north shore. Fishing from the shore and piers is tough due to
weeds right now. DFG catfish plants this week and three weeks ago.
No trout plants yet. Park and lake fishing information:
909-599-8411 or a href=http://www.bonellipark.orgwww.bonellipark.org/a./p

pstrongSANTA FE DAM:/strong DFG catfish plants this week and
three weeks ago. Information: 626-334-1065./p

pstrongALONDRA PARK LAKE/strong: DFG catfish plant two weeks
ago./p

pstrongBALBOA PARK LAKE:/strong No recent DFG plants. Carp
fishing has been fair to good for anglers targeting them./p

pstrongBELVEDERE PARK LAKE:/strong DFG catfish plant two
weeks ago./p

pstrongCERRITOS PARK LAKE:/strong DFG catfish plants this
week and three weeks ago./p

pstrongDOWNEY WILDERNESS PARK:/strong DFG catfish plants this
week and three weeks ago./p

pstrongECHO PARK LAKE:/strong No recent DFG plants./p

pstrongEL DORADO PARK LAKE:/strong DFG catfish plants this
week and three weeks ago./p

pstrongELIZABETH LAKE:/strong No recent DFG plants./p

pstrongHANSEN DAM LAKE:/strong No recent DFG plants.
Information: 888-527-2757 or 818-899-3779./p

pstrongHOLLENBECK LAKE:/strong DFG catfish plant two weeks
ago. Information: 213-261-0113./p

pstrongJOHN FORD PARK LAKE:/strong DFG catfish plants this
week and three weeks ago./p

pstrongKENNETH HAHN PARK LAKE:/strong DFG catfish plant two
weeks ago./p

pstrongLA MIRADA PARK LAKE:/strong No recent DFG plants./p

pstrongLEGG LAKES:/strong DFG catfish plants this week and
three weeks ago./p

pstrongLINCOLN PARK LAKE:/strong DFG catfish plant two weeks
ago./p

pstrongMAGIC JOHNSON LAKE:/strong No recent DFG plants./p

pstrongMACARTHUR PARK LAKE:/strong DFG catfish plant two
weeks ago./p

pstrongPECK ROAD PARK LAKE:/strong DFG catfish plants this
week and three ago. Information: 818-448-7317./p

pstrongCOLORADO RIVER/strong/p

pstrongFLOW INFORMATION:/strong Reservoir elevation levels
and flow releases for the entire lower Colorado River are available
at this web site with information updated hourly:
a href=http://www.usbr.gov/lc/region/g4000/hourly/rivops.htmlwww.usbr.gov/lc/region/g4000/hourly/rivops.html/a./p

pstrongLAKE MEAD:/strong Overall slow to fair action on both
stripers and catfish on cut anchovies or sardines in deep water
under balls of shad. Most fish under four pounds. The largemouth
and smallmouth bass are fair on plastics and reaction baits as the
lake level continues to come up with some topwater action early and
late. Fish the newly flooded brush. Redear and bluegill bite is
fair with most fish in six to 20 feet of water./p

pstrongWILLOW BEACH:/strong The striped bass action has been
good again with a lot of quality fish topping 20 pounds. The best
action has been between mile markers 48 to 52 on cast or trolled
trout-like plugs and swimbaits. The trout bite remains good on
salmon eggs, Power Bait, worms and Super Dupers after the weekly
plants. Lots of limits reported. Information: Willow Beach Resort
at 928-767-4747./p

pstrongLAKE MOHAVE:/strong The striper bite is fair from the
power lines to the dam at the south end of the lake. The fish are
running from three to six pounds and have been chowing down on the
shad in 30 to 50 feet of water. Some surface action early in the
day, but most of the fish are showing on anchovy pieces dropped
down to metered fish or on trolled shad-like lures. The largemouth
bite has been fair at best with the best action early in the day on
topwater or reaction baits or on plastics and jigs fished deep and
slow later in the day. The catfish and panfish action is fair to
good, mostly in less than 20 feet. Information: Cottonwood Cove at
702-297-1464, Katherine’s Landing at 928-754-3245. Interesting web
site for Willow Beach and Lake Mohave striper anglers:
a href=http://lakemohavestripers.comhttp://lakemohavestripers.com/a./p

pstrongLAUGHLIN-BULLHEAD AREA:/strong More and more stripers
have been caught in the Bullhead to Avi stretch of the river in the
past week, including some nice fish from four to seven pounds in
the Big Bend area. Frank Vroomin, Bullhead, landed a 4.64-pound
striper. Most are on Bomber-type lures, but some also on cut baits.
A few trout are showing in spotty numbers all the way from the
Laughlin casinos all the way to Rotary Park and points downriver.
Jeff Cearfoss, Bullhead, had a 3-14 rainbow to top of a nice
stringer of four rainbows on nightcrawlers in the Big Bend area.
Nightcrawlers have been the best bait. The catfish are quiet right
now. The smallmouth are slow along river rip-rap and other
structure and taking small jigs and crankbaits, with the Willow
Valley stretch the best bet. The annual fishing derby to benefit
the meals program in the Bullhead area is going through Nov. 20,
with prizes for the biggest striper, trout and catfish.
Information: Riviera Marina at 928-763-8550./p

pstrongNEEDLES AREA:/strong There is a fair to good
smallmouth action in the main river from Needles south to the I-40
bridge, mostly on small cranks, plastics, and nightcrawlers. The
striper bite has been spotty with only a few fish to four pounds in
the main river from the upper end of Topoc Gorge to Needles.
Catfish fair on cut baits, and a few rainbow trout continue to show
but most are nice quality fish up to four pounds. Information:
Needles Marina at 760-326-2197./p

pstrongTOPOCK AREA:/strong Fair action on smallmouth bass in
the Topoc gorge region with some fish to three pounds on plastics
and nightcrawlers. The bluegill and redear are fair with cooling
water conditions. Stripers have remained slow to fair on cut bait.
Catfish remain spotty in the gorge, but the bite is still fair to
good at night on cut baits and smaller live baits in the marsh. The
largemouth bass bite has been pretty consistent in Topoc Marsh.
Topock Marsh can be accessed by boat at North Dike, Catfish
Paradise, and Five-Mile Landing. Information: Phil’s Western Trader
at 928-768-4954 or Capt. Doyle’s Fun Fishing at 928-768-2667./p

pstrongHAVASU:/strong The striper bite has been steadily
improving as the fish drop back out of the river as the water
cools. The fish have been boiling most days with action this past
week at the Chalk Cliffs on the California side below the casino.
The bite was very good on the Arizona side early this week on the
Arizona side at the Water Safety Center. Quite a few smallmouth
have also been up in these boils. The best bite has been on white
Rat-L-Traps and Pointer 128s in white or shad colors. Most of these
stripers are nice four to six pounders. The largemouth and
smallmouth bass bite has been fair and improving. The fish are
showing on everything from topwater and cranks to deeper
presentation with plastics and jigs. The National Bass West Classic
this past weekend was won with a 10-fish, 37.27 pound total by Sean
Bailey and Billy Skinner, both of Lake Havasu. Big fish of this
event were 6.89 and 5.25 pounds. The catfish action has been very
good with a lot of three-pound class fish in deep water on cut
mackerel. The redear have slowed with spotty action on smaller
fish, mostly on nightcrawlers. Information: Bass Tackle Master at
928-854-2277./p

pstrongPARKER STRIP:/strong Fair to good smallmouth bass
along the rip-rap on small cranks, plastics, and jigs. The catfish
are fair to good on cut baits in the bigger pools and eddies.
Bluegill and redear are good in the backwaters and quiet water in
the main river. No flathead reports./p

pstrongBLYTHE:/strong The flathead catfish bite has been fair
to good on live goldfish and bluegill in the deep pools of the main
river, but also quite a few fish in the area drain ditches. The
blues and channels cats are also good, mostly on cut baits. The
bass are fair on crankbaits and plastics in all of the ditches,
backwaters, and quiet water in the main river. Topwater action
early and late in the day. The smallies are best in the main river
along the rip-rap and in the canals. Bluegill are fair in area
backwaters and ditches, but there haven’t been any striper reports
from the diversion dam and very few tilapia have been reported.
Information: Bamp;B Bait 760-921-2248./p

pstrongPALO VERDE:/strong Very light fishing pressure with
just a few reports over the past week. The channel catfish and
flathead catfish action remains fair to good early and late in the
day or at night. There has been pretty decent bluegill and bass
action, especially for the smallmouth in the main river along
rip-rap on small cranks, plastics or jigs. Information: Walter’s
Camp 760-854-3322 Thursday through Monday./p

pstrongPICACHO AREA:/strong The bass are showing on cranks,
spinnerbaits, and even topwater with most of the bite early and
late in the day. Generally good action on catfish but bluegill are
slowing./p

pstrongMARTINEZ LAKE AREA:/strong Largemouth bass action has
been fair to good on spinnerbaits and other reaction baits early
and late in the day and then slows way down with a few fish on
plastics and jigs during the day. Channel catfish action is good on
stink baits, and the quality flathead action has been fair to good.
Bluegill are fair and no crappie reports. Information: 928-783-9589
Thursday through Monday or a href=http://www.martinezlake.comwww.martinezlake.com/a./p

pstrongYUMA AREA:/strong Largemouth bass action is fair on
plastics, nightcrawlers and reaction baits, with the best action on
topwater baits early and late in the day. The channel catfish
action also fair to good, mostly at night. Flatheads also fair on
live bluegill, tilapia, or goldfish. Fair bluegill bite in most
backwaters./p

pstrongLOWER DESERT WATERS/strong/p

pstrongSALTON SEA:/strong Very light fishing pressure and
slow tilapia action. The few anglers fishing are still at the state
park headquarters’ jetty and the free fishing jetty at the
refurbished Salton Sea Yacht Club. Information: Salton Sea State
Recreation Area main office at 760-393-3059, the ranger station
kiosk at 760-393-3052 (or mobile phone at 760-331-9944), or the
Visitor Center (Thursday-Monday) at 760-393-3810./p

pstrongALAMO RIVER/strong: No reports./p

pstrongCOACHELLA, HIGHLINE CANALS:/strong No reports./p

pstrongALL AMERICAN CANAL:/strong No reports./p

pstrongFINNEY-RAMER:/strong No reports./p

pstrongWEIST LAKE:/strong No reports. Information:
760-352-3308./p

pstrongSUNBEAM LAKE:/strong No reports./p

pstrongLAKE CAHUILLA:/strong No reports. Information:
760-564-4712./p

pstrongEASTERN SIERRA/strong/p

pFor up-to-date road and campground information by region, call
the following U.S. Forest Service offices: For the Big Pine to Lone
Pine region, call 760-876-6222; for the Bishop Region, call
760-873-2500; for the Mammoth Lakes region, call 760-924-5500; for
the Lee Vining region, call 760-647-3044; and for the Bridgeport
region call 760-932-7070. Lodging and guide information: Bishop
Chamber of Commerce 760-873-8405 or a href=http://www.bishopvisitor.comwww.bishopvisitor.com/a, Mono
County Tourism 760-924-1743. Top Eastern Sierra fishing report web
sites are: a href=http://www.KensSport.comwww.KensSport.com/a (Bridgeport region),
a href=http://www.TheTroutFly.comwww.TheTroutFly.com/a, and a href=http://www.SierraDrifters.comwww.SierraDrifters.com/a./p

pstrongBRIDGEPORT REGION:/strong Bridgeport Reservoir remains
a good bet for bait and troll from the mouth of the East Walker all
the way down to the public marina with the fish more in open water
but still some hanging along the weed lines. Rainbows to four
pounds and an occasional brown that’s bigger. Fly action a little
tougher, but some good fish on streamers fished along the weed beds
and at the dam. Twin Lakes are all good with a lot of fish to two
pounds on nightcrawlers and floating baits or trolled lures. All
the Virginia Lakes are good on small spoons and flies, but also
some fish on inflated nightcrawlers and floating baits. The East
Walker flows have dropped this past week to around 160 cfs and the
fishing is excellent on streamers, nymphs, and midges with a lot of
18 to 22-inch fish and some hogs. The West Walker is very good on
bait, lures, and flies with some outsize trout to six pounds
reported. The Little Walker River, Robinson Creek, Buckeye Creek
and Green Creek are all pretty good. Kirman Lake has been slow to
fair but the fish are all quality, with brookies to four pounds and
cutthroats to six pounds reported, mostly on stillwater nymphs,
seal buggers, soft hackles, and scuds. Information: Ken’s Sporting
Goods 760-932-7707 or a href=http://www.kenssport.comwww.kenssport.com/a, Twin Lakes Resort (Lower
Twin) 760-932-7751, Annett’s Mono Village (Upper Twin)
760-932-7071./p

pstrongJUNE LAKE LOOP AREA:/strong The trout action remains
fair to good throughout the loop with June, Gull, Silver and Grant
all producing some limits of fish, mostly pan-sized rainbows on
floating baits, small trout jigs and plastics, and flies fished on
top as the fish swirl. Silver Lake has been the top spot in the
loop, lots of planters and lots of holdovers. Floating baits fished
in deeper water are the top bet with flies a close second. Grant
Lake is fair with decent action on rainbows and a few browns. Best
action on trolled lures or nightcrawlers at the upper end of the
lake. Rush Creek between Silver and Grant has been pretty good with
a lot of limits of rainbows and a few bigger fish. Parker and
Walker lakes are fishing pretty well for smaller wild fish. Rush
Creek has also been very good. Information: Silver Lake Resort at
760-648-7726 or at a href=http://silverlakeresort.netsilverlakeresort.net/a or Ernie’s Tackle at
760-648-7756./p

pstrongMAMMOTH AREA:/strong Crowley Lake has been very good
on quality fish with the big rainbows and browns mostly working
over the small perch fry so streamers are the best bet. The fish
are starting to concentrate in the stream and river mouths,
especially the browns and working the weed lines for the minnows.
Upper Owens is fair with a very good grasshopper bite along the
banks, also still some small mayflies and caddis hatching morning
and afternoon for dry fly fishing. Streamers or deeply-fished
nymphs also getting a few fish. Hot Creek remains very good for fly
anglers with hoppers a good bet right now. Still quite a bit of
daily mayfly and caddis activity, midges in the evenings, and nymph
fishing all day. Convict Lake has been good on pan-sized trout with
shore anglers fishing nightcrawlers or Power Bait, while trolling
are mostly fishing six to seven colors of leadcore and Thomas
Buoyants or Needlefish. The Twin Lakes and all the Mammoth Lakes
basin lakes are good on planted fish with lots of holdover fish in
the inlets. Upper Twin the best bet. Brookies starting to stage in
creek mouths and move upstream in all the lakes. Rock Creek Lake is
very good, especially in the evenings. Rock Creek has been pretty
fair on planted fish. Mammoth Creek is also fair to good with quite
a few limits reported. Information: The Troutfitter at
760-934-2517, Convict Lake Resort at 760-934-3800, Crowley Lake
Fish Camp at 760-935-4301./p

pstrongBISHOP AREA:/strong South Lake remained good but the
bite shifted to the dam area with the corners the top spots. The
cove just north of the Long Lake inlet was also very good. Krisdina
Karady, Corona, landed a five-pound rainbow on a peal mini jig. The
South Fork of Bishop Creek has been good, and North Fork and Middle
Forks of Bishop Creek have been fair to good on planted trout with
some browns. Weir Pond is fair. Intake II has been very good this
past week with consistent action. Sabrina has been fair to good,
but North Lake is spottier. In the valley, Pleasant Valley
Reservoir is fair to good with the best action at the upper end of
the lake or at the dam on lures and floating baits in deeper water
with some action up on the surface on small lures and jigs in the
evenings and mornings. The lower Owens River is slow to fair with
high flows with there’s still a decent dry-fly bite on hoppers
along the banks. Information: Parcher’s Resort at 760-873-4177,
Sierra Drifters Guide Service 760-935-4250, Culver’s 760-872-8361,
Brock’s 760-872-3581./p

pstrongWESTERN SIERRA/strong/p

pstrongLAKE ISABELLA:/strong There has been a fair to good
bite on catfish on shad and clams in most coves. Most of the cats
are in the 1 1/2- to three-pound range, but some to six or seven
pounds. The bluegill bite is fair to good on crickets and wax
worms. All other species have been slow with very few crappie, bass
or trout reports. For fishing information: Bob’s Bait
661-833-8657./p

pstrongKERN RIVER:/strong Trout action had been very good
with a lot of quality two- to four-pound rainbows on crickets,
salmon eggs and nightcrawlers in the upper river. Fly anglers are
seeing very good action in the Johnsondale bridge and Brush Creek
regions. There continues to be weekly plants in the river above
Isabella. In the lower river, a few bass and trout are showing in
the Richbar and Hobo region. Information: Kern River Fly Shop
760-376-2040 (or a href=http://www.kernriverflyfishing.comwww.kernriverflyfishing.com/a) or James Store
760-376-2424./p

pstrongAQUEDUCT NEAR TAFT:/strong The striped bass bite
continues to improve with a pretty good bite on blood worms and a
few on lures. The heavy weed growth is finally subsiding. Lots of
four to five-pound fish (22 to 24-inches) with most over the
18-inch minimum keeper size. The catfish and carp bites are slow to
fair. Information: Bob’s Bait 661-833-8657./p

pstrongMILL CREEK PARK:/strong The catfish bite has been fair
on cut baits and green garlic nightcrawlers. Most of the cats are
one and three pounds. Also a few bass and bluegill showing./p

pstrongHART PARK LAKE:/strong The bluegill bite is fair to
good on crickets, wax worms, red worms, or meal worms. Carp are
also just fair on dough baits but getting very light pressure. Some
catfish and bass showing, but not many./p

pstrongTRUXTUN LAKE:/strong The bluegill bite is fair to good
and the carp action is fair. Carp best on dough baits, and the
bluegill best on crickets and wax worms. The bass action is slow on
plastics, cranks, spinnerbaits, and nightcrawlers, most action is
early and late in the day and most bass are small./p

pstrongRIVER WALK PARK:/strong The bluegill bite is fair to
good on wax worms, crickets, meal worms, and small worms or
nightcrawlers pieces. Some bass on nightcrawlers, small jigs,
plastics, and small reaction baits but the bite is pretty much
limited to early and late in the day. Carp fair on dough baits, but
light fishing pressure on the carp./p

pstrongMING LAKE:/strong The bluegill action is just fair on
worms, wax worms, and crickets. Carp slow to fair on Powder Bait
and other dough baits. The bass bite has been slow to fair on
plastics, nightcrawlers or reaction baits, mostly Senkos or
spinnerbaits fished early and late in the day./p

pstrongBRITE LAKE:/strong No reports./p

pstrongBUENA VISTA LAKES:/strong The bluegill bite has been
good and some real quality fish to nearly a pound have been caught
on red worms, wax worms, crickets, and small jigs. The catfish bite
remains fair on nightcrawlers, Sonny’s Catfish Bait, and frozen
shad. Most of the cats are two to four-pounds. The bass remain
spotty with only a few fish showing early and late in the day on
topwater or reaction baits. Trout season set to kick off Nov. 12
with the annual trout derby that day. Crappie very slow.
Information: Bob’s Bait 661-833-8657./p

pstrongWOOLLOMES LAKE:/strong The bluegill bite is fair on
wax worms, crickets, meal worms, and red worms. The bass action has
been slow on reaction baits, plastics, and nightcrawlers early and
late in the day and most of the fish are small./p

pstrongSUCCESS LAKE:/strong The bass bite is fair on reaction
baits, Senkos, plastic worm, and some fish on topwater. The
bluegill are fair to good on the usual array of small baits or
jigs, and the catfish bite has been pretty good on cut baits in the
coves. Information: 559-781-2078./p

pstrongKAWEAH LAKE:/strong The bass is very good on
Senko-type reaction baits and plastics with the best bite early in
the day. The bluegill action is fair to good in most coves on
crickets, red worms, and wax worms. Crappie very slow. Information:
559-597-2526./p

pstrongCENTRAL COAST LAKES/strong/p

pstrongSAN ANTONIO:/strong There continues to be a fair
striper bite with the best action for working shad-like baits. Some
topwater early and late in the day. The average fish continue to be
from seven to nine pounds with some topping that mark each week.
The smallmouth bass action has been fair to good on drop-shot
plastics and jigs fished on structure or rip baits and cranks when
the fish are up chasing bait. Some topwater early and late in the
day. A few crappie and largemouth are also being reports, but the
action on both is no better than slow to fair right now. Quagga
mussel inspections are now required before boat launching is
allowed. Anglers need to think cleaned, drained, and dry or they
are likely to be denied access. Information: marina at
805-472-2818, Bee Rock Store at 805-472-9677, or Jim’s Pro Bass
Tackle at 805-237-0549./p

pstrongNACIMIENTO:/strong There is continued fair to good
spotted action on small plastics with some good topwater action
early and late in the day. New lake record landed recently, but
mostly small fish. Few white bass reports, but some boiling fish
busting shad. No crappie reports. Quagga mussel inspections are now
required before boat launching is allowed. Anglers need to think
cleaned, drained, and dry or they are likely to be denied access.
Information: marina at 805-238-1056 or a href=http://www.nacimientoresort.comwww.nacimientoresort.com/a,
Bee Rock Store at 805-472-9677, or Jim’s Pro Bass Tackle at
805-237-0549./p

pstrongSANTA MARGARITA:/strong Very light fishing pressure,
but the bass action has been fair to good with a topwater or
reaction bait bite early and late in the day, and fair action on
plastics the rest of the day. The bluegill and redear action
remains good on nightcrawler pieces fished in six to 20 feet of
water around brush, reeds, or other structure. The crappie are
slow. No catfish reports. Quagga mussel inspections are now
required before boat launching is allowed. Anglers need to think
cleaned, drained, and dry or they are likely to be denied access.
The marina store is open Wednesday through Sunday. Information:
805-438-1522./p

pstrongLOPEZ:/strong The bass action has been fair to good in
the mornings on topwater and Senko-type baits along the weed lines
followed by decent action on drop-shot plastics or jigs in 18 to 40
feet of water. The crappie bite is slow to fair on small jigs. The
bluegill and redear bite has been good on nightcrawlers, meal
worms, crickets, or wax worms in most of the coves. Catfish are
still very spotty. Quagga mussel inspections are now required
before boat launching is allowed. Anglers need to think cleaned,
drained, and dry or they are likely to be denied access.
Information: 805-489-1006./p

pstrongTROUT PLANTS/strong/p

pBarring adverse weather, water or road conditions, the following
lakes and streams, listed by county, will be restocked with
catchable-size rainbow trout from the Department of Fish and Game
hatcheries this week. For updates in Southern California and the
Eastern Sierra Nevada, you can call the DFG recording at
562-594-7268, or for updates in the Western Sierra, you can call
559-243-4005, x183. For trout plants statewide, you can visit the
DFG’s web site at
a href=http://www.dfg.ca.gov/fish/Hatcheries/FishPlanting/index.asphttp://www.dfg.ca.gov/fish/Hatcheries/FishPlanting/index.asp/a./p

pstrongSAN BERNARDINO:/strong Santa Ana River, South Fork
Santa Ana River, Silverwood Lake./p

pstrongRIVERSIDE:/strong Hemet Lake, Perris Lake./p

pstrongSAN DIEGO:/strong Doane Pond./p

pstrongINYO:/strong Baker Creek, Big Pine Creek, Bishop Creek
(South and Middle Forks), Diaz Lake, Goodales Creek, Lake Sabrina,
North Lake, Pleasant Valley Reservoir, South Lake, Taboose Creek,
Tinnemaha Creek, Tuttle Creek./p

pstrongMONO:/strong Convict Lake, Gull Lake, June Lake, Lake
George, Lake Mamie, Lake Mary, Lee Vining Creek (main fork),
Robinson Creek, Rush Creek, Silver Lake, Twin Lakes Bridgeport
(upper and lower), Twin Lakes Mammoth (upper), Virginia Lakes
(lower and upper), West Walker River (section 2 and section 3)./p

pstrongFRESNO:/strong Kings River below the Pine Flat
Reservoir, San Joaquin River below the Friant Dam./p

pstrongKERN:/strong Kern River from Powerhouse No. 3 to
Riverside Park, Kernville./p

pstrongMADERA:/strong Corrine Lake./p

pstrongTULARE:/strong Kern River from Fairview Dam to Falling
Waters Lodge./p

pstrongTUOLUMNE:/strong Lyons Canal, Middle Fork Stanislaus
River, Moccasin Creek, Powerhouse Stream./p

pstrongCATFISH PLANTS/strong/p

pThe following lakes, listed by county, will be stocked this week
with one-pound catfish by private hatcheries under contract with
the Department of Fish and Game./p

pstrongLOS ANGELES:/strong Cerritos Park Lake, Downey
Wilderness Park Lake, El Dorado Park Lake, John Ford Park Lake,
Legg Lake, Peck Road Park Lake, Puddingstone Reservoir, Santa Fe
Dam./p

pstrongOCEAN FISHING REPORT/strong/p

pstrongBy Terrence Berg/strong/p

pstronga href=http://www.976-TUNA.comwww.976-TUNA.com/a/strong/p

pstrongLONG RANGE HOT:/strong The 10 to 14-day boats fishing
The Ridge off Baja have been seeing exceptional yellowtail and
dorado action with limit of both species the rule. The dorado and
yellowtail have been up into the 40 pound range. In addition, more
and more quality wahoo are showing on these trips with fish to 75
pounds this week on both the Royal Polaris and Shogun. Yellowfin
tuna from 15 to 25 pounds are also being found in greater number.
Under the weird conditions persist category, skippers reported
seeing bluefin tuna at the Ridge this past week, too. That is
almost unprecedented./p

pstrongYELLOWTAIL WIDE OPEN:/strong The yellowtail action for
the 1 1/2 and two-day boats running out of San Diego has continued
exceptional with limits the rule for most boats this week. There
also continue to be a few yellowfin and bluefin along with the odd
dorado showing in this bite in the 140 to 160 mile range. The
problem has not been a lack of fishing action, but the lack of
anglers going on these trips. In a normal economy, there would be
from 200 to 400 anglers a night wanting to jump on these boats.
Now, its more like 20 to 40 anglers with only twice that on
weekend./p

pstrongSAN NICOLAS HOTSPOT:/strong San Nicolas Island has
been a hotspot for anglers fishing boats at this offshore island.
The bite has been good for white seabass and halibut with most
skippers also taking the time to get limits of rockfish for the
anglers on board. Lots of sheephead and whitefish in these catches,
too. The Toronado, Freedom, and Mirage have all made runs in the
past week with excellent results. On Wednesday, the Mirage had 16
white seabass and two halibut along with the bottom fish./p

pstrongCLEMENTE, CATALINA UPDATE:/strong While much of San
Clemente has been closed off the by Navy this past week, there is
still a very good calico bass bite on the front side of the island
with a few yellowtail also breezing around. Catalina Island has
seen cooler water in recent days, but the pockets of 64 degree
stuff have also been producing a lot of calicos./p

pstrongROCKFISH EXCEPTIONAL:/strong While this bite has come
on earlier than expected, the rockfish action all along the coast
has been excellent with seven to 10 fish per rod on 3/4-day boats
and four to 10 fish on half-day boats. Landings from San Diego to
Santa Barbara are seeing this good action./p

pstrongINSTRUCTIONAL CHARTERS:/strong The staff of 976-TUNA
is hosting instructional charters throughout the year, offering
advice to beginning or veteran anglers and on-the-water teaching of
techniques for different saltwater species. The next trip is set to
depart Friday, Nov. 11, on a two-day rockfish and surface fishing
trip aboard the Pacific Star out of Pierpoint Landing in San Diego.
The trip is a $199 special. For information on upcoming 976-TUNA
instructional charters, call 562-352-0012 or go to the website at
a href=http://www.976-TUNA.comwww.976-TUNA.com/a./p

pstrongLANDING CONTACTS/strong/p

pstrongSouthern California:/strong Virg’s Sportfishing, Morro
Bay, 805-772-1222; Patriot Sportfishing, Avila Beach, 805-595-7200;
Sea Landing, Santa Barbara, 805-963-3564; Harbor Village
Sportfishing, Ventura, 805-658-1060; Channel Islands Sportfishing,
Oxnard, 805-985-8511; Captain Hook’s Sportfishing, Oxnard,
805-382-6233; Port Hueneme Sportfishing has merged with Channel
Islands Sportfishing; Malibu Pier Sportfishing, 310-328-8426;
Marina Del Rey Sportfishing, Marina del Rey, 310-822-3625; Redondo
Sportfishing, Redondo Beach, 310-372-2111; Rocky Point Fuel Dock
(skiff rentals for King Harbor), Redondo Beach, 310-374-9858; 22nd
Street Landing, San Pedro, 310-832-8304; L.A. Harbor Sportfishing,
San Pedro, 310-547-9916; Long Beach Sportfishing, Long Beach,
562-432-8993; Pierpoint Landing, Long Beach, 562-983-9300; Marina
Sportfishing, Long Beach, 562-598-6649; Newport Landing, Newport
Beach, 949-675-0550; Davey’s Locker, Newport Beach, 949-673-1434;
Dana Wharf Sportfishing, Dana Point, 949-496-5794; Helgren’s
Sportfishing, Oceanside, 760-722-2133; Fisherman’s Landing, San
Diego, 619-221-8500; Hamp;M Landing, San Diego, 619-222-1144;
Seaforth Landing, San Diego, 619-224-3383; Point Loma Sportfishing,
San Diego, 619-223-1627; Islandia Sportfishing, San Diego,
619-222-1164./p

pstrongMexico Landings:/strong Sergio’s Sportfishing,
Ensenada, 011-526-178-2185; San Quintin Sportfishing, San Quintin,
011-526-162-1455/p

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