Few people, if any, know the San Joaquin River as well as Louis Moosios.

The 36-year-old fishing guide, whose family owns 400 acres on the Madera County side, has been fishing, boating and swimming in the river since he was a boy.

Piloting his 14-foot aluminum skiff up river, Moosios keeps the 40-horsepower outboard's throttle steady through a series of bends and side channels, and even across a small weir.

"I've snorkeled the entire river from [Freeways] 41 to 99 -- that's how you get to know every little turn, every little bush, every big rock and fish hiding spot there is," Moosios says.

Moosios picks me up below Riverside Golf Course, and it's a 10-minute run to one of his favorite spots: a reclaimed gravel quarry connected to the river. We're here to fish and talk about the river restoration, especially aspects of the project that have received scant attention even though they'll affect nearly everyone who uses the river for recreation.

By now, everyone should be aware Chinook salmon are slated to be reintroduced to the San Joaquin, perhaps as soon as this year. And like in other California rivers where salmon have been re-established after a long absence, those fish will either be off limits to anglers or strictly catch and release.

But what seems to be lost in all of this, even though it's spelled out in the Draft Environmental Impact Report, is that the presence of salmon will also mean the end of all trout fishing and, potentially, bass fishing.

No more trout fishing in the San Joaquin? It says so right in Section 3.3 of Chapter 21, which quotes California Fish and Game Commission policy: "Domesticated or nonnative fish species will not be planted, or fisheries based on them will not be developed or maintained, in drainages of salmon waters, where ... they may adversely affect native salmon populations by competing with, preying upon or hybridizing with them."

Think about what that means for a moment.

No more trout plants at Lost Lake Park or North Fork bridge, the two most popular spots on the river.

No more trout derbies at the Fresno County Sportsmen's Club.

Thousands will have to go elsewhere.

The report states that 18,000 anglers use Lost Lake Park every year. What are all those people supposed to do now? Simple, it concludes: They'll just have to go to the Kings River instead.

Even though the report lists the impact on trout fishing as "potentially significant," I'll bet this is the first you've heard of it.

By the time the San Joaquin flows into Fresno, where Moosios and I are spending the afternoon, it becomes a warm-water fishery inhabited by bass, crappie, bluegill and catfish. And, yes, the fishing for those species will be affected as well.

Most of the best bass fishing takes place in reclaimed gravel quarries. But the report states these ponds, and there are many of them, must either be filled in or separated from the river so that juvenile salmon don't get swallowed by predators.

What happens to the fish in these ponds when their habitat gets cut off from the river? Water levels, temperature and quality are impacted to the point where "fish populations may decline or may be eliminated over the longer-term if conditions for fish deteriorate."

Guess that means no more bass fishing in the San Joaquin, either.

This is where Moosios has a problem, noting that most of the river's invertebrates and insects, potential food sources for salmon, are produced in these ponds, then flushed into the river.

Isolate all the ponds from the river, and you're affecting the health of the river as well.