Do you remember when grayling were caught in Lobdell Lake near Bridgeport?
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com Grayling are like freshwater sailfish. They are adorned with a tall dorsal fin that radiates...
How the government tried to prevent bighorns from being killed on desert road
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com A herd of beloved desert bighorn sheep was seeing its numbers reduced in fatal accidents with...
Is the Second Amendment now just a ‘loophole’ that needs to be closed?
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com A taste of freedom reigned for one day in California on April 24 this year. Just a taste. Amid...
Spotted bass at Lake Perris once broke all the records, but now they are gone
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com When Lake Perris first opened to the public in 1974, Ken Aasen, a fishery biologist with the...
Deer hunting in Sierra Nevada is a boost to local economies
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com The value of hunting, especially to communities outside of urban centers, is an economic boon...
Ridgecrest Quail Forever chapter providing wildlife water over 30 years
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com Larry Boyer, the senior member of the Ridgecrest Chapter of Quail Forever at 80 years old,...
There was a time when trophy browns prowled the waters of Lake Silverwood
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com In the spring of 1978, Fred and Lou Albrecht of San Bernardino had caught over 80 brown trout...
Salton Sea: A journey from the best fishery in California to a dead sea
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com It was the kind of sight avid ocean anglers dream about. The sea was calm, and for as far as...
Climbing the desert’s unnamed mountains, AKA, chukar hunting
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com Not surprisingly, I don’t kill many chukar. I never have. It’s not that I don’t go out and run...
Quail hunters are about a century behind duck hunters
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com I came to the realization this week that quail hunters are about a century behind duck hunters...
