CALENDAR UPDATE

NORTH CALENDAR: Back in the water Western Outdoor NewsPublished: Jul 22, 2010

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NORTH COAST CALENDAR For abalone divers, July is the longest month! With rumors of a reduced daily bag limit in 2011, abalone seekers miss a good part of the summer with the July closure every year. This year, all the late spring northwest wind made for fewer days calm enough to dive, but now that the weather pattern seems to finally have turned the corner, ab divers will be able to spend some quality time in the kelp beds. Abalone, a broadcast spawner, are left alone in July to allow them to perform their spawning activities undisturbed. Not all abalone spawning happens in July, but biologists believe this is the month most abalone cast their eggs and milt into the ocean to hopefully combine and make lots of little abalone. The season will run through November, and the coming months will offer the best opportunities for diving with more calm sea days and some great minus tides. For more information on this and other important events, check out this week’s WON Calendar. Western Outdoor News welcomes calendar items pertaining to hunting, fishing and upcoming events. Send them to P.O. Box 1536, Placerville, CA 95667 or to e-mail address wonnorth@pacbell.net. Hunter Education Training classes are conducted on a monthly basis. Go online to www.dfg.ca.gov/huntered/index.aspx for a complete, statewide listing of hunter safety course contacts. Courses are now available online — check the Web site address above. JULY July 24: The Sonoma Chapter of the NWTF will be hosting its annual Hunting Heritage Banquet at the Schell-Vista Fire Station in Sonoma. July 24: Please Leave It NRA Klean volunteers will meet before 9 a.m. in the parking lot of the Pollock Pines Safeway market to clean up places in your National Forest where you can still shoot targets (NOT trees). Tools, cold drinks, and sack lunches will be provided. Just bring your gloves, guns, and ammo. Two trucks will need to go to the dump, most can stay to shoot in the shade. For more info, call (530) 620-3946. AUGUST August 1: Abalone season reopens. Aug. 1: Archery deer season closes in zone A. Aug. 4-5: Fish and Game Commission Meeting in Monterey. For more information, (916) 653-4899 www.fgc.ca.gov. Aug. 6: CWA Carmel Valley Dinner at Los Laureles Lodge, 313 W. Carmel Valley Road, Carmel Valley, Calif. Cocktails at 4:30 p.m. and Dinner at 6:30 p.m. $65 per person, $40 per life member and $50 per sprig. Contact Les Terry at (831) 659-2233 or Robert Ashmore at (831) 372-0800 or Melinda Pereira at (831) 649-1740 or Greg Heydeman at (916) 275-8195 or for more information visit www.calwaterfowl.org to view event flyers. Aug. 8: California Inland Bowhunter Association fundraiser at West Point Rod/Gun/Archeryd featuring 28 3D, marked yardage, 3 arrow, score 11, 10, 8. Aug. 7-8: Hunter safety class at the Waterloo Gun & Bocci Club, 4343 North Ashley Lane, Stockton, CA 95215. For questions, contact Tim Davanis at (916) 335-9604 or Don Giottonini at (209) 464-4565. Aug. 17: CWA Watsonville Dinner at Kennedy Youth Center, 2401 E. Lake Avenue, Watsonville, Calif. Cocktails at 6 p.m. and Dinner at 7:30 p.m. $75 per person, $50 per life member, $40 per sprig and $400 per gun donor. Contact Carolyn Agard at (831) 479-1444 or for more information visit www.calwaterfowl.org to view event flyers. Aug. 19: Combined Northern California & Delta Northern California and Delta Clean Boating Network Chapters meeting at the City of Berkeley Marina (Marina Conference Room) from 9:15 a.m. to 1 p.m. (including the marina tour). For more information, call (415) 904-6905? Aug. 20: CWA Walnut Creek, Diablo, Blackhawk, Legacy Dinner at Blackhawk Auto Museum, 3700 Blackhawk Plaza Circle, Danville, Calif. Cocktails at 5:30 p.m. and Dinner catered by Scotts Seafood at 7:30 p.m. $75 per person, $55 per life member and $40 per sprig. Contact Claude Grillo at (925) 683-1377 or Mark Scott at (925) 0502 ext. 11 or Darren Solaro at (916) 275-5143 or for more information visit www.calwaterfowl.org to view event flyers. Aug. 21: Archery deer season opens in zones D6, C1-4, B1-3, B5-6, D3-5, D7-10, A17 (X9b), A18 (X9c), A19 (X10). SEPTEMBER Sept. 1-2: Fish and Game Commission Meeting in Sacramento. For more information, (916) 653-4899 www.fgc.ca.gov. Sept. 5: Archery deer season closes in zones C1, C4, A19 (X10). Sept. 9: CWA Sacramento Wild Game Feed at Scottish Rite Temple, 6151 H Street, Sacramento, Calif. Cocktails at 5:30 p.m. and Dinner at 7 p.m. $60 per person, $100 per couple, $40 per sprig, $40 per life member and $75 per life member couple. Contact Larry Leidelmeyer at (916) 919-7645 or (916) 456-5465 or for more information visit www.calwaterfowl.org to view event flyers. Sept. 10-11: WON BASS Northern Division Pro/Am tournament at Lake Mead. For more information, go to www.wonbass.com. Sept. 12: Archery deer season closes in zones D6, C2-3, B1-3, B5-6, D3-5, D7-10, A17 (X9b), A18 (X9c). Sept. 18: Rifle deer season opens in zones C1-C4, X9A, X9B, X12, B1-B3, B5-B6, D7. Sept. 25: Rifle deer season opens in zones D3-5, D8-D10. Sept. 26: Rifle deer season closes in zone A. OCTOBER Oct. 2: Rifle deer season opens in zone D19, X1, X2, X3A, X3B, X4, X5A, X5B, X6A, X6B, X7A, X7B. Oct. 6-7: Fish and Game Commission Meeting in San Diego. For more information, (916) 653-4899 www.wonbass.com. Oct. 9: Rifle deer season opens in zones D11-D15. Oct. 10: Jigs Fall Classic at Lake Don Pedro, Fleming Meadows. Contact jigstackle@att.net or (209) 852-2663. Oct. 17: Rifle deer season closes in zones C1, X9A, X9B, X12. Oct. 23: Rifle deer season opens in zone D16. Oct. 24: Rifle deer season closes in zones B1-B3, B5, D9, D10, C2-4. Oct. 31: Rifle deer season closes in zones D7, D17, D19. Nov. 21: Rifle deer season closes in zone D16. NOVEMBER Nov. 3-4: Fish and Game Commission Meeting in Sacramento. For more information, (916) 653-4899  www.fgc.ca.gov. DECEMBER Dec. 7: Fish and Game Commission Meeting in Monterey. For more information, (916) 653-4899 www.fgc.ca.gov.