California's salmon population has declined so severely over the last several years that regulators canceled the fishing ...

DEC raises 750,000 steelhead fingerlings at its Salmon River Fish Hatchery in Altmar to stock ... on a drift rig or under a float. That’s the bait Muckey uses into early December.

As an example, if you were drifting a mealworm or salmon egg, you’re going to want to cast upstream of the target area and let the current carry the bait down to the fish. Depending on the speed ...