That was a good fall trip, listening to the Moody Blues and Led Zeppelin, dazzled by the Fall color, seeing black bear everywhere. The Cassiar had some gold rushes in the past, and there are signposts pointing out stretches of creek where guys would scoot aside six inches of gravel and find heaps of gold just lying there, glinting on the bedrock.

Photo: Tim Romano

There are a million cubic yards of silt behind Rindge Dam, so what it would take to remove that would be 100,000 truckloads of dirt weighing who knows how much.

A dispatch from TFFJ's SoCal Blog office and the great Ben Marcus, World's Greatest Surfwriter™ and a couple of LA Times vintage fishing reports from Malibu Creek, Ventura and beyond. And clearly there was bitterness towards the "salmon-eggers" crowd by steelie fly enthusiasts, even in 1904.