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It is with great pleasure Shake, Rattle and Troll Radio announces Christopher Cantrell as the newly selected Fisheries Branch Chief with the Arizona Game and Fish Department. Chris was first hired on with the Department as a fisheries biologist in 2003. Over the past 10 years with the Department, Chris has had the ability to work on all aspects of fisheries science from high mountain trout research, to lake management, and all of Arizona’s canyon bound rivers and streams in between.

Bass anglers in Arizona came to know Chris once he was hired into the Fisheries Program Manager position in Region VI in 2009. Chris was truly a “breath of fresh air” when it came to managing Arizona’s bass lakes in Arizona. His outstanding job performance has lead to many identifiable contributions to fisheries management in Central Arizona. Chris has proactively been working toward enhancing our top bass lakes in Arizona by prioritizing important issues such as tournament support and regulations, bass genetics, lack of habitat through the creative development of Reef Ball fish habitats, standardizing fish collection methods, lake management plans and immediate response to fish kills from Golden Algae.

Bass anglers in Arizona came to know Chris once he was hired into the Fisheries Program Manager position in Region VI in 2009. Chris was truly a “breath of fresh air” when it came to managing Arizona’s bass lakes in Arizona. His outstanding job performance has lead to many identifiable contributions to fisheries management in Central Arizona. Chris has proactively been working toward enhancing our top bass lakes in Arizona by prioritizing important issues such as tournament support and regulations, bass genetics, lack of habitat through the creative development of Reef Ball fish habitats, standardizing fish collection methods, lake management plans and immediate response to fish kills from Golden Algae.

Events

May 31 - June 2
Payson Mountain High Games

May 20: San Diego - Yellowtail Derby Results

Editorial by John Koleszar

Let the US Coast Guard Auxiliary get you ready for the water before you pay fines.

MIDWARY, TX:  Pat Long and his son were in a blind to hunt hogs near Midway when this guy poked his head in! Pat's son shot the snake... it's 9'6" long... with 22 rattles, the head more than five inches wide, the fangs 2.5" long. Anybody going for a walk in the woods this weekend? Share with your friends and see who has good snake stories! (From Bruce Gietzen at News Channel 25 in Waco

PINETOP, AZ: Donny McDowell catches ABOUT A 24" Northern Pike in Rainbow Lake, Pinetop, AZ, invasive species eating the Rainbow Trout.

The Arizona Game and Fish Department reports:

PHOENIX - Eddie “Flathead Ed” Wilcoxson was asleep on the fold-out cot of his 24-foot pontoon boat on Friday, April 12, when what would become a state record flathead catfish began taking drag at Bartlett Lake.

About 35 minutes later, at 2:37 a.m., Wilcoxson, 56, boated what Arizona Game and Fish Department officials verified is a 76.52-pound flathead catfish. It measured 53.5 inches in total length with a 34.75-inch girth.

It also became the heaviest recorded fish of any species in state history, topping the 74-pound flathead catfish caught in 1988 out of the Colorado River by Walter Wilson of Bard, Calif. …

“Everybody’s got the same chance I do,” Wilcoxson said. “You just have to get out and do it.

The growing concern of the effects of Gizzard Shad on Roosevelt Lake has spawn how to fix the problem opinions, rumors, complaints, claim of dropping Tonto Basin property values, decreasing winter visitors fishing the lake and claims that major tournament circuits may be passing Roosevelt Lake in the future.  Read More

Gizzard
Shad in Roosevelt
 by
Don McDowell
Conservation Director
Arizona Bass Nation

International Yellow Tail Derby

May 2
 Kick Off Party at the Bali Hai 6pm

June 9
 Gala Derby Awards Party and weigh in of the Winner

Adobe Mountain Wildlife Center Needs Help!


I had an opportunity to go to the Adobe Mountain Wildlife Center site this week and I am sad to admit that after all these years and all the time I have spent around wildlife that this was my first visit to the facility. I had come for a specific purpose of picking up a cooler that I had left at an event and was full of freezer burned meat. While the meat was not edible for me, it certainly became table fare for the wildlife at the Adobe Mountain Wildlife Center.


Sandy Cate, the coordinator for the center has operated on a shoe string budget for years. The only money they receive is 1) Funds from the Heritage program (buying lottery tickets helps them) and 2) donations. The reason for my writing is simple. Almost every event I attend has the Adobe Mountain workers present and teaching the public about wildlife. All of these people are volunteers none of them are paid, period end of story. They reach the public in a way that most of the conservation groups (critter groups) cannot.


While we in the conservation groups can show pictures and trophies, the Adobe people work with live animals that provide the public with a close and personal encounter with wildlife. As society has progressed through the years from an agricultural basis to manufacturing and now the technological world, there has been a disconnect with nature. The “typical urban dweller” has so few chances to view hawks, eagles, buzzards, prairie dogs and the like that when given an opportunity to view these creatures up close, they find it fascinating and memorable. The work of the Adobe Center people is truly a missionary one and that leads me to the final analysis.


The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has for years pulled the wool over an unsuspecting public. The mantra of “saving wildlife” is their method of operation but in reality they do little to help wildlife. The lawsuits they file, the political agenda they carry and the outright disdain they have for conservationists (consumptive groups that maintain a balance of wildlife) all point to one thing…. Sell a message of “humane”, but spend all of your money trying to defeat hunting, fishing and rural farming that feeds our nation. I hear stories more frequently now about older generation people who regularly contribute to the “Humane society”, not knowing that they run no shelters, do no local work and simply get rich each year on misconceptions of a trusting and unsuspecting public. Local humane societies have nothing to do with the HSUS, but the damage has been done. An organization that has the financial wherewithal to send out slick ad pieces keeps the cycle of reeling in the cash, making the donors think there is money going one place and spending it in another….. In other words, a great con job.


Sadly, the Adobe Mountain people continue to do their volunteer jobs with an annual budget that is not even close to what a single mailing for the HSUS costs. If the public wants to help (and I hope you all do) look into the Adobe Mountain Wildlife Center. Attend the outdoor events and you will see them there. Of the thousands (estimated at least 50,000 people per year have contact with them) of people who attend and see wildlife would each donate a single dollar, it would more than double their annual budget. The benefits for wildlife are impressive and these are truly the professionals and they care deeply. It’s about time we recognized them and started helping. JK

Operation Game Thief w/Don McDowell

Payson - Outdoor Wildlife Fair

May 11, 2013 - The Payson Outdoor Wildlife Fair sponsored by the Arizona Game & Fish Department.
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Greg Trompass was the winner with the 54# 4oz white Seabass, they also had a 40+ Sht seabass and a 30# yellowtail.



On monday a 58# 6 oz Sht seabass was weighed in claim 1st place in the white seabass division.

The bite is on in both the Coronados and La Jolla.

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