Thanks Fumio! You are awesome! For those of you who don't know Fumio, he is one of the nicest people I have ever met. We often are at the lake at the same time, and it is always a pleasure to see and speak with him. The other day he got a really nice fish. Good job buddy!

Through the grapevine I have heard there is going to be a possible public forum meeting in regards to this matter. From what I know right now it will be in Solvang sometime in march. I will keep you posted.

Lake Casitas has an on staff biologist who is responsible for studying and reporting on the steelhead in the Ventura River. They have extinsive data on the amount of fish in the river. Hopefully this data can be of great assistance to DFG. What is also of interest is that the lake has only went over the spillway 5 times since it was built in the 50's. They also have the ability to release water through filtered screens during high water flows to eliminate the lake spilling over during this time.

Lake Piru spills over more frequently. But they have the ability to release water also. Lake Staff at piru where unaware of what has been happening until a few days ago.

What scares me is the lagoon. If you look into DFG's data when they were investigating Steelhead Habitat, it is noted that no steelhead were found in the river in which it outflows. But there is nothing in place to prevent fish from flowing over the spillway. Often times you will see people illegally fishing downstream for the trout that spillover.

Cachuma is also very scary because it dams off a river system. I am not very familiar with this lake, but I would hate to see any presedence take place in which a lake or area could lose trout plants and the fishing opportunity they present.

I also have seen a letter from the Center of Biological Diversity stating their displeasure with the EIR. They say DFG has released a "Flawed EIR". Great! I would assume more litigation is pending. I suggest we all write to our local representatives and inform them of this problem. We cannot continue down this path of constant litigations in regards to EIR's. We are the people who end up paying for these types of litigations when they attack government entities. Maybe Stanford Law would represent us in a lawsuit for free? HAH!

Brian