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Of course we focus on the ducks and geese we hunt but the birds that are protected like the Bald Eagles, Swans and Cranes will be hit hard

OK I know I dont post here much but this is about to get real More than likely many of you don't follow the Mid Continent Snow Goose Conservation Season and the devastation due to Bird Influenza. The loss of mostly snow geese was substantial like due to their own characteristics of feeding...

Mike if this does happen I'm sure it will take a few years of this to really change the birds just like we witnessed when management at Wister ruined the snow population on the refuge right

We all hate rumors but when you hear the same exact story from 3 different people who dont know each other it makes you shake your head Many people I know, some in DFW are saying Sac, Delevan and Colusa are likely not going to open for hunting. If true, you misght as well add Kern I hope this...

83% of normal, we are not in a MEGA drought, its man made

There are a few things to consider and look forward to. There likely will be little to no decomp water which will likely turn into a lot more fog days. if you can get your farmer to mow and not disc you are in the money. I'm betting on lots of fog and will make the most of it

The water crisis is man made, unless you believe NOAA has been fudging numbers for over a 100 years The politicians are dumping the water in the ocean

So the north part of the valley from basically the city of Sacramento to Willows west of the Sacrament River will receive 17% water allotment out of Lake Shasta. On the east side of the Sac River, the farms that get water from Lake Orrovile will get close to 50%. I'm sure there will be some...

This really isn't about almonds vs rice, this is about gross water mismanagement and the loss of habitat and how it will effect local duck reproduction and habitat for next falls migration. The area not getting planted is roughly 15 or so miles wide and 50 miles long and probably larger. Of...

Yup Mike, its terrible. We might be leaving the decoys in storage this year!!!

I cant even sugar coat this but the info we are getting from our friends and farmers in Nor Cal is nothing short of devsastating. For those of you who hunt Nor Cal on private property please contact your guides or who you lease ground from if you have hunts planned for the upcoming season...

After you hunt with Melynda, come hunt with us a couple days. We guide 90 miles north of Sacramento

I personally know the owner of California Guide Service. She is the real deal and highly recommend her

3" 2s and the correct choke can kill snows at 50yds

Now that I have hunted up there the last 10 years or so I would say the average day is 3 to 5 geese a gun. These numbers are so easily changed by numerous things, weather, moon and the hunters ability to shoot I cant sugar coat this but some clients just cant shoot and thats ok. they days...

Once the geese show up they really dont leave Nor Cal. They will move out of the Willows area and slide down to the Delta but pretty much are near by. The biggest factor is the weather, if we're killing mosquitoes its tough to kill geese. We had great hunts from early December until the last...

We usually start our guided trips in Nor Cal around the first of December, thats typically about the time we start seeing the geese hit the dry fields The geese are in the dry already, big time which I have never seen this early Something is definitely different this year

Some birds migrate by the calendar Some birds migrate by the weather My buddies North End Salton Sea club has more GWTs than they have ever seen this early. I took the boat out in LA/LB Harbor this afternoon and it is loaded with Sea Ducks which I usually don't see until Thanksgiving...

Personally I don't like the taste of big Canadas at all, but I will eat snows out of the rice before any duck in California

Yup, the last year I saw Corvina in the Salton Sea was around 1996. Billy and I were fishing near Bombay and that was the first trip I saw fresh dead Corvina floating dead. They were dying all around us. 25 years ago