It is very nice to see folks helping the critters, and even though it may be just for the fisherman's hook, at least in the open water it will be a fair fight for survival, which the fish wins more times than not.
Save a fish, please an angler
Volunteers scramble to free bass in the Delta
By Carrie Peyton Dahlberg - cpeytondahlberg@sacbee.com
Published 12:00 am PST Sunday, December 2, 2007
PROSPECT ISLAND – Slogging through foot-sucking mud and murky water, a few dozen fishing enthusiasts worked Saturday to free the same striped bass that many normally would be trying to hook.
"We want to give back to the fisheries," said Jeff Nash as an ad hoc rescue crew gathered on a Delta levee just after sunrise.
The group had come to save fish stranded when levee repairs cut off their passage back to the Sacramento River Delta.
Nash, a Roseville computer systems engineer, figured that a love of fishing, shared from one generation to the next, had brought out the volunteer rescuers on the brilliantly crisp fall morning.
"Most of us are parents, or we've been out here with our fathers or grandfathers," said Nash. "We don't want to see the fisheries depleted."
