Tom Stienstra - SF Chronicle
[2006-04-25]

In the next few miles, we saw deer sipping water along the bank, a cottontail freeze at our surprising presence and then flash into the brush, and a dozen wild turkeys poking along a bluff. I told the story about my first fishing trip here, when I caught salmon on back-to-back casts that looked like whales and weighed 32 and 28 pounds.

This was on the Sacramento River near Red Bluff on the first day of a 400-mile canoe expedition from Redding to San Francisco. As we paddled, we noted that we felt like Jedediah Smith, back in the mid-1820s, exploring the area for the first time - and how much of the river here is still in its wild state.

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