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What Can Be Collected from Ocean Beaches?
What Can Be Collected from Ocean Beaches? Go ID required on buoys when crab fishing from a pier/dock? Baiting turkeys with water? Do licensed fishing guides also need a fishing license? Continue reading →
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Fish Carcasses for Bait?
Fish Carcasses for Bait? Following the trout planting schedule? How to lose big game preference points? Rockfish size and possession limits? Crab pot line length suggestion? Continue reading →
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Rainbow Trout/Steelhead vs Coastal Cutthroat Trout
Rainbow Trout/Steelhead vs Coastal Cutthroat Trout? Eating fresh-caught fish while at sea? Ranching wild pigs on private property? Crab hawk traps? Continue reading →
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How to Begin a Career as a Wildlife Officer?
How to Begin a Career as a Wildlife Officer? Continue reading →
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Bait Launching with a DIY Spud Gun?
Bait launching with a DIY spud gun? Catching crabs both inside and outside San Francisco Bay? Transporting a compound bow? Lost fishing license? Continue reading →
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Scouting and Hunting from a Paraglider?
Scouting and hunting from a paraglider? Carp spearfishing in the Russian River? Upgrading to lifetime fishing license? How many hooks are allowed when fishing Sabiki rigs? Maximum number of crab traps...
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Hunting Over Alfalfa?
Hunting Over Alfalfa? Catch and release in MPA? Why not able to purchase license and harvest report cards together? Abalone shell pieces for jewelry? Continue reading →
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Fishing Pacific Halibut with a Buoy from a Kayak?
Fishing Pacific Halibut with a Buoy from a Kayak? Muzzleloaders in a wildlife area? Dungeness crab and other health advisories? Continue reading →
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Czech Nymphing and Weight Placement when Fly Fishing?
Czech Nymphing and Weight Placement when Fly Fishing? Crab fishing with both traps and snares simultaneously? Selling elk antlers from Idaho? Continue reading →
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Targeting Stripers and Sturgeon together in San Francisco Bay
Targeting Stripers and Sturgeon together in San Francisco Bay? Mouth calls for deer? Where to fish loop crab snares? Marine invertebrates for personal collections Continue reading →
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How to Bring Home Fish Caught Out of State?
How to Bring Home Fish Caught Out of State? No deer tag, so what can we hunt? Measuring salmon correctly Continue reading →
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Fishing for Black Bass after Catching a Limit of Stripers?
Fishing for Black Bass after Catching a Limit of Stripers? Collecting a road-killed opossum? Illegal animal imports? Where can to use two rods in San Francisco Bay? Continue reading →
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Compliance Requirements with Game Wardens?
Requirements for Compliance with Game Wardens? Are spiny dogfish considered sharks under the sharkfin ban? Bait balls for chumming? Fully feathered dove wings required in a permanent camp? Continue...
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Drones for Fishing Offshore
Drones for Fishing Offshore? Bag limits for trout and kokanee separate or combined? Is it legal to possess a found deer skull with antlers? Do kids without licenses still need 2nd rod stamps? Will...
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Possessing Steel and Lead while Hunting Chukar and Quail?
Possessing Steel and Lead while Hunting Chukar and Quail? Shrimp fishing legal? Is lead shot legal or illegal for doves this season? Do smoked fish stored in a freezer count as in possession? Continue...
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What’s the Scoop on Razor Clams?
What’s the Scoop on Razor Clams? Rock pigeons. Helping grandsons to fish with a two pole license? Is an abalone gauge/iron combo legal? Continue reading →
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Nonlead Shot Required for Eurasian Collared-Doves?
Nonlead Shot Required for Eurasian Collared-Doves? Determining creek and river boundaries during closed seasons? Saltwater use of dead carp? Dove hunting in Imperial County? Continue reading →
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How to Fish the Lobster Opener?
How to Fish the Lobster Opener? Mouth calls for deer? Record fish caught from private waters? Carrying an additional handgun for protection? Continue reading →
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How to Apply to Become a Warden Cadet?
Question: I spoke to a lieutenant in 2015 at Sacramento Police Department’s “Links to Law Enforcement” job fair. I kept his business card with the informational pamphlet since I am still very...
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Sea Lions Are Eating All My Bait!
(This column originally ran on Sept. 17, 2015.) Question: Is there anything I can do to deter or discourage sea lions from eating all my crabbing bait? I know that seals and sea lions are protected...
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