

A fishing technique for pumpkinseed and other sunfish
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com I am an unabashed fan of sunfish, all sunfish. But pumpkinseed are easily the prettiest of...


Why is the DFW still failing to manage our deer herds correctly?
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com The deadline to apply for special big game hunting permits was this past Thursday, and a lot...


Raahauge’s Shooting Sports Fair is back after not being held last year
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com CORONA -- The Raahauge’s Shooting Sports Fair is back. After a one-year hiatus, the original...


Bighorn lamb deaths are again mounting up around La Quinta
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com Five endangered peninsular bighorn sheep lambs have died on La Quinta golf courses since May...


Fish and Game Commission gets new executive director with zero experience; now more discrimination i
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com The downward government spiral of all things formerly known as “Fish and Game” continued this...


Snow greets Sierra trout opener crowd, but fishing is good
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com Weather is always a crapshoot for the Eastern Sierra trout season opener. The last Saturday...


Racial divides and the outdoors
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com A friend give me a bad time this week about not forcefully commenting on the speech given by...


Interior Secretary Jewell calls for “course correction” in conservation and major investment in “fo
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com Sally Jewell, the U.S. Secretary of Interior, called for a major “course correction” in...


Willow Beach fish hatchery soon to be back in trout production business
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com Three years after mismanagement and inappropriate funding cuts ended trout production at the...


DFW management missing point of survey showing staff believes agency is being taken in the wrong dir
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a story about an in-house survey of Department of Fish and...














