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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1985
Page
24
Jim Wooley of Pheasants Forever outlines a nationwide 600000 habitat fundraising goal with 22 Iowa chapters and 2000 members. He argues habitat, not stocking or shorter bags, is key to pheasant recovery and details programs to preserve nesting cover and winter shelter nationwide.
Pheasants Forever offers membership options with dinner included in most chapter banquets or join without attending. Associate membership is 15 dollars, others range from 40 to 1000 dollars. Mail to Pheasants Forever, St Paul, or contact Jim Wooley in Chariton Iowa. Upcoming banquets include Linn County on October 29 at the Sheraton Inn and Fayette County on October 24 at Hickory Grove CC with tickets at local gun shops and Drug Town.
Dave Duffey, a Bear Creek Wisconsin gun editor, demonstrates field trials with planted quail at a dog training seminar south of Cascade. The Twin Rivers Chapter of Pheasants Forever sponsors the event as area hunters and their retrievers watch. Duffey urges consistent commands and calm control plus encouragement, noting pointers are harder to train than retrievers and mainly in the birds field. Don Pape of Dubuque is pictured with his black Lab retrieving a quail.
Dennis Lubahn and fellow Waukon anglers drove to Port Washington and Mishicot Wisconsin for salmon from Oct 4 weekend. They fished shore and boat earning limits of chinook salmon in 15 to 22 pounds, then opened the Mishicot snagging season with spoons and snagged multiple fish before sunrise.
Leonard Kovarik of 1648 with St. NW, his son Larry, and neighbor Lynne Goldsberry snagged 10 salmon and six lake trout at Manitowoc and Two Rivers Wisconsin last week. Salmon weighed 20 to 30 pounds. trout 10 to 12 pounds. Mrs. Kovarik canned 23 quarts from eight fish. The fifth annual Forest Craft Festival is today and Sunday at Lacey Keosauqua State Park near Keosauqua Iowa, sponsored by the Iowa Conservation Commission and Van Buren County residents.
Chuck Marshall of Route 1 Independence captured the Angler of the Year title after finishing second in the final Cedar Rapids Bass Masters tournament. He led the standings with 367 points, ahead of Bill Grove 347 and Steve Harty 337. Top 12 now compete in the Iowa Federation Tournament next June, with the banquet to honor the anglers later this fall.
The East Central Iowa chapter of Far Takers of America will hold a trapping seminar next Saturday at the North Linn Fish and Game Club east of Central City starting at 10 a.m. Owen Hall said the dry land trapping session will run until questions stop. Bring lunch and call Hall at 438-6637 for details. The chapter also meets Sunday Oct 20 at 1 30 p.m. at the HACAP Center in Central City. the public is invited.
Bow seasons open today and run through December 6. Bow hunting hours are from half an hour before sunrise to half an hour after sunset. The ruffed grouse season in northeast Iowa starts today and goes to January 31. The turkey gun season begins Tuesday and ends October 27. Crow season starts Tuesday and ends February 15. The second duck season begins October 19 north of I 80 and October 26 south of I 80.
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