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BC Family Fishing
Day on Fathers Day
Appropriately
enough on Fathers Day, June 20, British Columbia also celebrates the
Family Fishing Day. This is an event that I look forward to every year.
This year we had over 60 children and families attending the event.
What a better way is there then to spend with the children and family
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A Day at Grouse
River Outfitters in Kelowna
Hunters
from Kelowna, BC and surrounding area turned out in full force to visit
Grouse River Outfitters in Kelowna, where Jim Walker and myself made a
in-store turkey hunting clinic appearance...Read
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Turkey Hunting
Seminar in Keremeos
On March
28 my wife and I drove to Keremeos, BC were I was scheduled to give a
turkey hunting seminar. The event had been organized by the Keremeos -
Cawston Sportsmen Association and about 39 people attended, which was a
great turnout considering that this is only a small club...Read more |
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Hunter Education
Course (CORE) 2010
For me one
of the
biggest annual hunting related highlights is the hunter
education course. This year we had 14 student, all graduating with
flying colours. One thing i noticed is that we had more girls and
mothers with their kids taking the course...Read more |
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BC Boat &
Sportsmen's Show
The
BC Boat & Sportsmen's Show is the largest of its kind in
British
Columbia. On Saturday, March 6th I attended the show and right away
realized that the attendance was up from last year. A long line of
visitors stretched outside the Tradex...Read
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Good
Food, Good Friends and Trophy Awards
On
February 27, 2010 the members of the Nicola Valley Fish & Game
Club
gathered at the annual "Game Dinner" Party. Everybody had fun swapping
stories and enjoying the variety of game meats and other dishes at the
buffet. The highlight of the evening was the announcement of the game
trophy winners...Read
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Spring
Geese Hunting Season Opener
Today
the
spring geese hunting season opened and before dawn my good fried Paul
Komonoksi, President of Nicola
Valley Fish and Game
Club, and
I arrived at the
ranchers field at set our goose decoys out. The red morning sky
promised a nice sunny day...Read
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Paradise
Lake Enhancement Program
For
just a
bit over a year the Nicola
Valley Fish and Game
Club, of
which I am the current 2nd. Vice President, was involved in one our
many conservation enhancements programs. This particular program was
about improving access to a fishing lake...Read
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BC
Family Fishing
Day
On
Fathers Day, June
21st the Nicola Valley Fish &
Game Club (NVFGC) held their traditional BC Family Fishing Day event at
the
children lake located between the Kentucky and the
Alleyne akes...Read
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Taking
Action
On June the 4th.
Bill Otway, my
wife and I visited the
local sporting goods stores in Merritt to set up donation boxes to
collect
money for the local Conservation Officers, so they at least can buy gas
for
their service vehicles. Of course we didn’t just go to the
stores
and set up
“Poor Boxes” quietly. We invited the newspapers and
the
local television...Read
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Bringing
New
Hunters
into
our Ranks
The
biggest challenge we face in the hunting
community is to retain and improve our numbers. With urbanization and
the aging
baby boomer's retiring we lose more hunters then we currently gain...Read
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Turkey
Seminars
are a Huge Hit
I
started the spring season off with a bang. The four-hour turkey hunting
seminar
here in my home town Merritt, on March 15, 2009 had been a great
success.
Despite snowstorms about 45 of the 60 registered hunters braved the
weather to
attend...Read More
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Great
Time and Fun at the Ice
Fishing Derby
Between Christmas and
January 18 I have
been
quite
busy with organizing
and promoting the Ice Fishing Derby for the Nicola Valley Fish
& Game Club.
It has been great fun getting the event ready and I managed to get the
derby on
to the TV...Read
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Redemption
– Finally getting in to
fish
Last
night on a hunch I said to my wife, “Lets go
fishing tomorrow.” I still wanted for my wife to catch her
first fish and today
seemed to be a very good day. The lake was calm and the weather mild.
So at
around 9:00 am we loaded up the boat and drove to Nicola Lake. The lake
was
devoid of other fishers and we saw a lot fish jumping, a promising
sign...Read
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