Blog Entries - July 2008

Successful Western Sportsman Fishing Derby

editor@westernsportsman.com — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +0100

Rain-soaked though it may have been, last weekend's inagural Western Sportsman & BC Outdoors Salmon Fishing Derby was a huge success!

Held at Shearwater Resort & Marina , in Shearwater, BC, about 25 brave souls ventured out in a classic West Coast Summer storm to troll for chinook and coho and jig for halibut.

The result? Coho to 17 pounds, chinook to 25 pounds and halibut all the way to a monster 78 mouth-watering pounds.

Best of all -- every participant receive [...]

Alberta Draw Results Are In!

editor@westernsportsman.com — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +0100

Despite the AlbertaRELM website giving us all some trouble this past weekend, the results are in and online for the 2008 Alberta Hunting Draws.

How many of us are happy? Personally, I'm still waiting on the results for the Archery Antelope, which is the one I was most excited for. I also did not get quite a few, but those were long shots. Anyone out there get bison?

It should be a good season. I'm interested to know if any Western Sportsman readers got some really ha [...]

Free Fishing!

editor@westernsportsman.com — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +0100

Dust off the rods, this weekend, July 12 and 13, is both Alberta and Saskatchewan's Free Fishing Weekend.

This is a great program that allows everyone in the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan to fish without a licence - no excuses for not getting out there! I hope to see a lot of people with some seriously out-dated, worthless equipment fishing poorly this July 12 and 13.

Why? Because those are the people who haven't fished in a while and may just be considering pickin [...]

Let's Go Outdoors Radio

editor@westernsportsman.com — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:00:00 +0100

For those of you who enjoy Michael Short's radio show "Let's Go Outdoors Radio," you'll be pleased to know you can hear more about Western Sportsman magazine on some upcoming shows.

Not a listener yet? Check out www.letsgooutdoorsradio.com to find out more about the show.

While you're there, download out episode 12, where one of our writers, Duane Radford, talks about his article in the July/August Western Sportsman magazine.

Duane is the writer of [...]