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CDFW Offering Drawings for 86 Spring Wild Turkey Hunts on Public, Private Land
by CDFW, FEBRUARY 24, 2019

California’s spring turkey season opens statewide March 30 and extends through May 5, and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) is offering 86 special hunts this year on public and private land to help hunters bag a tom. Young hunters have additional opportunities. Junior Hunting License holders can hunt March 23-24, the weekend before the general opener, and the...
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Steelhead Planted in Feather River
by Denis Peirce, FEBRUARY 23, 2019
Feather River

Over the past ten days the Feather River Hatchery has been planting juvenile steelhead into the Feather River. This year the hatchery produced 460,000 fish for planting in the river and it took over a week with three trucks to get them all down to the Boyd's Pump launch ramp. The ramp at Boyd's Pump is a few miles below...
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ODFW phone lines open for hunter reporting – Call 1-866-947-ODFW (6339), April 15 deadline to report tags
by ODFW, FEBRUARY 23, 2019

ODFW has increased the number of staff available to take hunter reports by phone and encourages hunters to report their big game or turkey tag(s) as soon as possible. Call 1-866-947-6339 (the reporting number printed on all 2018 tags) to report your hunt, or report online via MyODFW.com. As of today, more than 108,000 hunters still need to report hunt results,...
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MOB at Medford Show This Weekend
by Jason Haley, FEBRUARY 21, 2019

MyOutdoorBuddy.com (MOB) will be exhibiting this weekend at the 19th Annual KDRV Jackson County Sportsman’s & Outdoor Recreation Show (An ExpoSure Production) in Medford, Oregon. The show runs February 22-24 at the Jackson County Fairgrounds. Last weekend, MOB exhibited in Roseburg. Thad Vinson and Jason Webb from Steelhead Slammer Lure Company represented MOB, Sport Fishing Reports, NorCal Fish Reports and Oregon Fish...
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Fall Klamath King Returns Were Up In 2018
Kenny Priest
by Kenny Priest, FEBRUARY 21, 2019
Klamath River - Upper - CA

Last fall produced some of the best king salmon fishing on both the Klamath and Trinity Rivers in recent memory, and the preliminary number of returning kings seem to reflect just that. While we’re still not back up to average runs sizes, we’re headed in the right direction. The CDFW predicted a river run size of 91,873 in 2018, and...
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Sonoma County's Victor Gonella Receives Salmon Conservation Lifetime Achievement Award
by GGSA Staff, FEBRUARY 20, 2019

On February 16, friends, associates, fellow fishermen, and dignitaries gathered at the Bodega Marine Lab in Bodega Bay to honor lifelong salmon fisherman and salmon advocate Victor Gonella with a Salmon Conservation Lifetime Achievement Award. Gonella also received recognition from the US House of Representatives and the California State Legislature for outstanding contributions to conservation of California king salmon. Victor Gonella is the...
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