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The Great Pacific Northwest YOUR FISHING REPORTS • STORIES & EDUCATION FOR NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AND COAST OF OREGON


With Rob Gensorek


Charleston, OR. ~ Happy March everyone, can you feel spring moving closer? I sure can and so can the fi sh. More and more striped perch and lingcod are coming into the bay to spawn and more and more are fi nding themselves dredged in fl our and fried in but- ter or oil. T ere have also been plenty of lim- its of black rockfi sh and Dungeness crab in the bay. T ings


are look-


ing great for spring and summer folks! Pinkfi n perch are being caught on the beaches when the weather allows, some steelhead are still being caught locally although that season is fast winding down, and more and more boats full of anglers are getting out to have fun. A word of caution mind you,


the ocean is still pretty big and bad this time of year but as you just read there’s plenty of fun to be had in the bay. Speaking of the bay I’m thinking of doing a series on dock critters, big and small, cool or creepy, tasty or poison- ous. I want to cover a bunch of them and I’m starting today with one of my favorites, the White Plumed Anemone. T is anem- one is a textbook underwater cool critter, it is one of the most beautiful things out there and al- though it looks like a plant it’s all animal and a carnivore at that! From Alaska to California this anemone sits in sheltered areas and waits for its prey. It captures small invertebrates, zooplank- ton and other food particles that


cialized cell or cells with barbed, poison tipped ends that are used to stun, immobilize, or kill prey. T e anemone will then use those same ne- matocyst cov- ered tentacles to


push its or more its


victim into its mouth on top of


“head” cor-


rectly oral disc. T e anemone is comprised of


four main


parts, the oral disc I just men- tioned, tentacles, a column, and a foot. T is particular species is long lived with one in captivity dying at almost 100 years of age. During this long life they will reproduce in two manners with the fi rst and most typical re- productive method being to release eggs into the open ocean through its mouth (yeah, sorry about that, I didn’t want to tell you but it’s kind of im- portant) and the second is by cloning whereby they grow a whole new geneti- cally identical animal from


fl oat or swim by using the nema- tocysts on its tentacles. Nemato- cysts by the way are a highly spe-


their slimy trails) and fi ll them with beer! T ey are attracted to the yeast and will sadly drink to their death. Oh, and on a happier note,


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wriggly red worms turning your garden waste and kitchen scraps into rich earthworm castings.


I hope the March


hare isn’t nibbling your tender greens and if snails and slugs are nibbling as well try plac- ing shallow yellow saucers here and there (where you have seen


you must visit the simply mag- nifi cent Russian River Rose Company in Healdsburg! With over 650 varieties of roses in their nursery and gardens, they also off er Perfume Rose Har- vest tours, Nursery and Display Gardens. T eir rose company sells delightful rose waters and other rose products they cre- ate. Call them, 707-433-7455, look them up on line info@rus- sian-river-rose.com and make an appointment to visit them.


small pieces of its foot that may break off . T e anemone in the at- tached picture is about a foot long


Please tell them I sent you! As the March winds begin to


blow I hope your gardens large and small are beginning to awaken.


Fragrances are waſt -


ing through the clear air. Side- walks around town are dotted with fading fl ower petals. Remember your grandpar-


ents and all gardens that have inspired and touched your heart.


Songbirds and tiniest of


fi nches perch and splash in the bird bath of cherub holding the horn of plenty turned to stone aſt er all these years in all my many gardens. Rejoice! Spring has returned once again.


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but ones in the open ocean can reach about three feet in length and when disturbed or threat- ened will retract into a spherical ball until the disruption has passed. Come on down to D-dock in Charleston and we’ll point out these and many other fun and interesting creatures. Whether your crabbing for dinner or checking out cool critters on our docks I hope to


see you out there. Rob Gensorek is the owner of


Basin Tackle www.basintackle. com in the Charleston, OR. Ma-


rina and can be reached by phone at (541) 888 3811, by Facebook


at Basin Tackle Charleston, or e- mail at basin_tackle@yahoo.com


JOKES & Humor # 5


A man truly dislikes his wife’s cat and decided to get rid of him by driving him 20 blocks from his home and leaving him at the park. As he arrived home, the cat was walking up the driveway. The next day drove the cat 40 blocks away, booted him out, and headed home. Driving back up his driveway, there was the cat! Finally, he drove ten miles away, turned right, then left, and over a mountain until he found a thick forest and left the cat there. Hours later the man calls home to his wife: “Jen, is the cat there?” “Yes,” the wife answers, “Why?”


“I’m lost, and I need the cat to give me directions home.”


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