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Recreational fishing supplies, including bait, but also food, drink, fuel and boating equipment, constitute an important business in many areas.
Suisun City, CA (1991).
During the fall and winter steelhead and salmon season small boats can be seen holding steady against the current at the mouth of the Klamath and other north coast rivers.
mouth of the Klamath River, Requa, CA (1983).
An early morning spent fishing can still, under good conditions, produce a fine breakfast.
Benson Lake, Yosemite NP, CA (1969).
California's natural supply of trout must be supplemented by huge artifical hatcheries, paid for by fishing license fees.
Mount Whitney State Fish Hatchery, near Independence, CA (1977).
Some stretches of exceptional trout fishing streams have been reserved for fly fishing only.
Ah-Di-Na campground, Shasta NF, CA (1992).
Hunting and fishing are traditonal economic mainstays of the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta.
Suisun City, CA (1991).
Native Americans (and others) catch small fish known as smelt by dipping them from the surf with special nets.
near Kalaloch, Olympic NP, WA (1969).