For a month or so each year, frothy, soapy water spills from a small Dam feeding water to the Sacramento River. Just outside of the tiny town of Knight's Landing, this location is surrounded by agricultural lands, and boasts a popular fishing spot and boat launch. I traveled there twice (once on my birthday) to learn about the soap skimming along the top of the water, building up onto the sides of boats and rocks, headed Southeastward with the Sacramento.
Ike and Bea fish along the Sacramento, just upstream from the open dam. They are taking advantage of this year's short Salmon season, running from November 1 to Decemeber 31 from this point of the river and north. Salmon season has been closed all year due to record low salmon counts, and many anglers are eager to catch their one salmon per person limit. While scoping out the fishing site, an older man and his young son wrestled a large salmon out of the waters (a busted net meant they almost lost their catch). The first he'd caught in 17 years.
Asking Bea about the foam, she says it is only around this time of year. "The old timers," she remarks, "say that the foam is from the salmon. You know the fish are around if the foam is around.
My hands are tired of typing. More soon...
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