

Who made you king? On keeping big trout
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com It happens every time there are photos of a big, dead brown trout posted anywhere on the...


Whirling disease forces destruction of trout at two DFW hatcheries
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com Up to 3 million rainbow and brown trout could be destroyed at two Department of Fish and...


Dove hunters first impacted by non-lead ammunition phase-in plan
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com The first phase of the statewide lead ammunition ban for all hunting will go into effect this...


Big game hunting traditions are passed down through generations
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com My California Big Game Hunting “magazine” arrived in the mail last week. This is the...


State agencies working toward total lead ban with fishing gear targeted next
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com After banning all lead-based ammunition for hunting, the state is moving forward to ban lead...


Details of lead ammunition ban for hunting blow up on Internet
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com This wasn’t a surprise, yet the hunting/shooting community is acting like it has just...


Courts in headlong slide down the slippery slope of stealing individual rights
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com Apparently, using the reasoning provided by the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals this...


San Jacinto Wildlife Area could lose its water supply because of DFW bungling
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com The San Jacinto Wildlife Area is on the verge of losing at least half of its water supply in...


Trout season in Sierra Nevada kicks off this coming Saturday, cuts in trout plants and drought will
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com Trout fishing season opens this coming Saturday throughout the Sierra Nevada, but there are...


Drought impacts on fishing across Southern California
By JIM MATTHEWS www.OutdoorNewsService.com When Governor Jerry Brown stood in a Sierra Nevada meadow a couple of weeks ago and announced...














