NOTEBOOK: OCEAN SALMON ANGLERS MUST WAIT A LITTLE LONGER.Byline: Keith Lair Staff Writer California's recreational ocean salmon fishing season will open Feb. 16 with the Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, season set to open March 30. The first opening will be Feb. 16 between Humboldt County's Horse Mountain and Mendocino County's Point Arena. Waters between San Mateo San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. County's Pigeon Point and the Mexican border will open March 30, and waters between Point Arena and Pigeon Point will open April 13. Fishing north of Horse Mountain will remain closed until the Pacific Fishery Management Council The Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC) is an advisory body; it is charged with regulating most fisheries in U.S. federal waters off Washington, Oregon, and California. decides on a harvest level and time for the area. Anglers will be able to keep only two fish, both longer than 24 inches, and cannot use sinkers or weights exceeding 4 pounds attached directly to the line unless the line is attached to a mechanical device that releases the weights automatically when a fish is hooked. Only two single-point, single-shank circle barbless hooks can be used to take salmon in waters north of Point Concepcion. The distance between the hooks must not exceed 5 inches when measured from the top of the eye of the top hook to the inner base of the curve of the lower hook, and both hooks must be hand-tied. Anglers cannot use more than one fishing rod or line if a salmon is on board. --Volunteers needed: The Angeles Volunteers Association is in need of volunteers. The organization helps Angeles National Forest The Angeles National Forest (ANF) was established by executive order on December 20, 1892 as the San Gabriel Timberland Reserve. It covers over 2,600 km² (650,000 acres) and is located in the San Gabriel Mountains of Los Angeles County, just north of the metropolitan area of Los rangers with numerous activities, including manning centers, trail patrols, care of the forest and clean-up efforts. The AVA Ava, in the Bible Ava (ā`və), in the Bible, an unidentified city of Mesopotamia, perhaps the same as Ivah. Its inhabitants are called Avites. meets at Glendora's Finkbiner Park Scout Hut, located at 435 E. Dalton Ave., on the first Thursday of each month at 7:30 p.m. For more information, call (626) 334-8774. --Tree talk: The Angeles National Forests has set numerous public- workshop dates in January and February to discuss the Forest Plan. The workshops are designed to receiver input into the development of alternatives to the current plan. Agreements and disagreements will be discussed. The next meeting will be held Tuesday at the Glendora Library. Other dates: Jan. 31, at the Lakeview Terrace Recreation Center; Feb. 4, at Stevenson Ranch's Comfort Suites; Feb. 5, at Palmdale's Ramada ra·ma·da n. Southwestern U.S. 1. a. An open or semienclosed shelter roofed with brush or branches, designed especially to provide shade. b. An open porch or breezeway. 2. Inn; Feb. 6, at Wrightwood's United Methodist Church United Methodist Church, in the United States, religious body formed by the union in 1968 of the Evangelical United Brethren Church and the Methodist Church (see Methodism). Fellowship Hall; and Feb. 13, at the Pasadena Conference Center The Pasadena Conference Center is a convention center in Pasadena, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. It consists of three buildings. Pasadena Civic Auditorium The Civic Auditorium, also known as the Pasadena Civic Center . All are scheduled to start at 6 p.m. The Cleveland, San Bernardino and Los Padre forests will have similar meetings through Feb. 12. For more information, call (858) 524-0140 or visit the Web site www.r5.fs.fed.us/sccs. --For women only: The Department of Fish and Game's Becoming an Outdoor Woman program again will feature two three-day camps and 16 smaller seminars in 2002. The three-day workshops, which fill up quickly, will be held June 7-9 at Camp Rancho Alegre in Santa Barbara County and Oct. 25-27 at Wonder Valley Ranch in Sanger. They accommodate 100 people with a choice of four workshops, including firearms and firearm safety, map reading and compass use, orienteering orienteering Cross-country footrace in which each participant uses a map and compass to navigate between checkpoints along an unfamiliar course. Introduced in Sweden in 1918, it later spread throughout Europe. World championships have been held since 1966. , archery, bow hunting, fly fishing, outdoor cooking, camping, backpacking, canoe and kayak, basic fishing, survival skills, game birds, wild California and wildlife safari. Instruction, use of equipment, accommodations and food is included in the cost - $185 in Santa Barbara and $195 in Sanger. Sixteen one-subject workshops will be held around the state: Surviving the Snow (Friday through Sunday in Alpine County's Hope Valley); Cross-country skiing (March 8-10 near Mammoth); Map, Compass and Orienteering (April 12-14 at Joshua Tree National Park Joshua Tree National Park, 1,022,703 acres (414,050 hectares), S California. Lying between the high Mojave Desert and the low Colorado Desert, this park has a unique ecosystem in which are preserved rare Joshua trees (Yucca brevifolia ); Fly-fishing (April 19-21 at Lake Cachuma, June 28-30 near Frazier Park and Sept. 27-29 near Shasta County's Burney); Canoe and Kayak (May 18 and Aug. 10 at Sacramento Mather Lake); Surf Fishing, Sea Kayaking and Hiking (24-26 near Malibu); Survival Skills (July 12-14 in El Dorado National Forest); Shotgun shooting (July 27 in Morgan Hill); Backpacking (Aug. 24-25 in Lassen Volcanic National Park Lassen Volcanic National Park, 106,372 acres (43,081 hectares), N Calif., at the southern end of the Cascade Range. Proclaimed as Lassen Peak and Cinder Cone national monuments in 1907, the two were incorporated into a new national park in 1916. ); Bird Watching at Point Reyes (Nov. 15-17); and a guided duck hunt. For more information, call (916) 657-433 or see the Web site www.dfg.ca.gov/bow/owoman.html. |
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