California 2024-25 Waterfowl Season - Veterans Get 2 Less Days of Hunting

California Veterans Weekend Hunt has been combined with Late Goose Season for 2024-2025. This action greatly diminishes the respect for Veterans and diminishes greatly their recognition for service. The combining the Veterans Weekend with Late Goose Season results in two (2) less days for Veterans to hunt in the Waterfowl season due to the fact that the dedicated Veterans Weekend would be lost when combined with Late Goose season.

Since there will be non veterans out shooting geese on Veterans weekend it would no longer be a Veterans only hunt. The Veterans will lose the additional late goose as a separate hunt.

Also as noted earlier another problem with combining the Veterans Weekend Hunt with Late Goose is Veteran and non Veterans hunting together. Veterans could hunt both ducks and geese and non Veterans could only hunt geese. A game warden would not be able to tell who harvested ducks and who did not with regard to Veterans and non Veterans in the same hunting party. Non veterans could kill ducks on Veterans Weekend in non Refuge areas under the combination weekend and pass them on to a Veteran hunter who had under the limit or no ducks.

Over all combining Veterans Weekend with anything else greatly diminishes the importance and recognition of Veterans Weekend. If concerned write to - President Samantha Murray, California Fish and Game Commission, P.O. Box 944209, Sacramento, California 94244-2090 or email at fgc@fgc.ca.gov .

Specks at Sacramento Refuge..

Webcam at Sac Refuge show large number of Specs there now..

Lower Klamath and Tule Lake 2023-24 Waterfowl Season Update

Information for waterfowl hunting at Tule Lake has been updated. Driving into Field Units at Tule Lake is now again permitted before shoot time as in the past. Lower Klamath remains closed to waterfowl hunting for the 2023-24 season.

2023-24 Tule Lake and Lower Klamath Waterfowl Season Hunting Program - Lack of Support by USFWS

..for an ongoing discussion of this issue see - https://www.refugeforums.com/threads/tule-lake-and-lower-klamath-2023-24.1099246/page-2#post-12284665

Tule Lake and Lower Klamath 2023-24 Waterfowl Season - Hunter Access Continues to Diminish

At Tule Lake refuge for 2023-24 Waterfowl Season no reserved blinds, free roam field unit hunting only, no field Disabled/MI blinds as provided in the past, no drive in allowed to set up deeks, no hunting at Klamath Basin, etc.. looks like Ducks Unlimited and California Waterfowl Association monies and projects not be helping waterfowl hunters at all.. may be actually hurting..

Two years ago hunting on the Eastern side of the League of Nations Field unit was permanently closed to hunting which greatly reduced non spaced blind field unit hunting access. It appears that current Tule Lake and Lower Klamath Refuge Management have put hunting access at the rock bottom of the priority list. No wonder the town of Tule Lake is almost a ghost town.

2022-2023 Late Season Goose Addition

The 2022-2023 Late Season Goose Addition of Canada Geese for a Saturday and Sunday hunt in February 2023 was a great addition since in my clubs' area of the Suisun Marsh we do get some honker fly overs but not much in he way of Snows or Whitefronts.. However, later in Fall of 2022 in a strong wind driven rain storm we did have an unusual full day of Snows in the area. For the Late Canada Goose Weekend I loaded some 0x3 Combo Bismuth 12 ga 1 1/8oz loads which worked quite well.