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Timberwolves burned by one coach’s hunch
Bill Callaway picked quite a time to play a hunch. With its season in the balance and four hours of open road behind it, the Shasta boys basketball team went off script in a shocking 66-56 victory over Sierra in the first round of the CIF Northern California playoffs. "They dictated what we did tonight," Sierra coach Scott Thomason said with his arms folded, his gaze burning a hole in the ground. To be fair, ...
The Mustache Mantra: Just Grow it
Sometimes you don't think things through. You allow yourself to be oblivious to consequences and thus you can't be completely surprised when confronted with them. Other times you meticulously plot and pour over details in order to reach a desired end.
Prepare for change in springtime weather
One of the most common mistakes anglers make during the spring is not being properly prepared.
Connected to fishing holes near and far
I know it doesn't make a lot of sense, but in the afternoon of the Fly Fishing Show in Pleasanton Saturday, with all the other locations featured, I went into the destination theater showing Alaska.
Wildflower excursions
For the next month or two, California's wildflowers will be putting on a magnificent show for all of us to enjoy. The price of admission is a tankful of gas and some wear and tear on your boots. While the high Sierra get all the attention of trout fishers, skiers, and hunters, the most prolific wildflowers are actually a little lower down the mountain.
Running old fuel can damage boat’s engine
Last year I started fishing for trout and kokanee, and before I knew it time had passed and my bass boat just sat there.
Dinners raise wildlife funds
Usually about this time of year, I attend the annual fundraising dinner for the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. If you have never been to one of the many outdoor fund raising events of this nature, I highly recommend it. I attend every year and it's a great time for the whole family. Many of the major conservation groups have such dinners: Ducks Unlimited, The Mule Deer Foundation, California Waterfowl Association, Ctrout Unlimited, California Trout, and ...
Experience, adaptability can improve your luck
I'm beginning to see more and more boats being towed through my neighborhood, leading me to believe that the fishing must be improving.
McFish plentiful but no bite
If the situation requires, I stop at the travel center in Corning.
Springtime crappies in foothills & Delta
About this time every year, I start getting to the limit of my ability to stay indoors and have to get out afield, even if it is too early. Fortunately, early spring time sometimes has some great crappie fishing. While there is great crappie fishing in both the Delta and the big foothill reservoirs, small farmponds are best this early in the season, because they are smaller and usually shallower, farmponds get ...
Early signs of spring give anglers the itch
What a difference a week can make. The last couple of days have been absolutely beautiful. Wednesday morning as I was getting out of the shower I heard something I haven't heard in a while: birds chirping outside my bathroom window. Then, as I left my house, I saw a flock of birds fly overhead. It just felt and sounded like an early-spring morning. All day at work, all I could think ...
At the very least, you fished
I've fished four days so far this year. At this time last year I had been out three times that.
First aid for your vehicle
One of the primary reasons I get out in the wilds to hunt, fish, or just explore the back country is to get away from the crowds. The fishing is almost always better, the game less skittish, and the trails seem to have more wild flowers. In order to get out "back of the beyond" you often have to take your vehicle onto roads less traveled. The great part about driving on untraveled roads way ...
Learning from the past
I opened my fly box, but knew it wasn't there. Rain started to soak the chenille, marabou and thread of the flies I didn't need in the box opened like a book with the best pages torn out. I had comets, bosses, polar shrimp, Babine Specials, fish tacos, October Hiltons, Silver Hiltons and a Deschutes Madness. No egg-sucking leeches. How can you be fishing for rainbow and cutthroat trout in ...
GETTING IT WRIGHT
For Ripon boys basketball coach Rod Wright, winning his 100th Trans Valley League game was about as meaningful as a rerun of The Jerry Springer Show.
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The handiest gun revisited
In my book, guns are neither good nor evil; they are simply inanimate tools that do what their owners use them to do. Over a lifetime outdoors I have come across numerous situations in which a gun has been extremely handy. I have killed coiled rattlers that were about to strike, and chased away bears that were raiding our icebox. A gun can indeed save a life.
Manteca’s ‘old dogs’ relying on youth
The gray in his stubble gives him away. Still, Manteca High defensive coordinator Rick James admits …
Stockton track honors Patterson
The 2013 local racing season will come to a close on Saturday with the 30th Annual "Tribute to Gary Patterson" event at the Stockton Dirt Track, located at the San Joaquin county fairgrounds. The program will feature championship night for the King of the West 410 Sprint Car Series, a special open 360 Winged Sprint Car event and a large fireworks show.
Anglers are adjusting to fall turnover
For those of us who have been fishing a while, I'm sure we've all heard the term "turnover" used.
It’s mating time for tarantulas
This is the beginning of tarantula mating season. If you take a drive some fall evening into the hills separating California's Great Central Valley from the coastal regions, you can spot the male tarantulas crawling across the roads in search of females. If you live in Central California, take a drive up into the hills to the west of the Valley. Almost any of the main roads will do: Patterson Pass Road, Corral Hollow Road, ...
Weather can be fascinating
The first time I took my wife out fishing on the Delta she asked, "Are there always this many bugs around?"
ANYONE HOME?
Duck hunting season is open, so it's important that we stay out of each other's way.
Sharing gun safety tips
Recently I observed in this column that I thought the ideal gun to instruct a beginning shooter was the single shot 22. Although no one disagreed with my assessment, several of my readers chastised me for not talking more about gun safety.
Sharing gun safety tips
Recently I observed in this column that I thought the ideal gun to instruct a beginning shooter was the single shot 22. Although no one disagreed with my assessment, several of my readers chastised me for not talking more about gun safety.
Finding your way around the Delta
Navigating the Delta can be a little intimidating for someone who is not familiar with where they are going.
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