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Our area offers some of the very finest Halibut and Ling Cod fishing on the whole BC Coast, including Alaska. We are offering a special early season COMBO Halibut and Ling Cod package for the 2018 season. The dates we have selected for our 2018 Halibut Express are from May 1st to May 5th, May 5th to May 9th, May 9th to May 13th, May 13th to May 17th, May 17th to May 21st, May 21st to May 25th, May 25th to May 29th, May 29th to June 2nd, June 2nd to June 6th, June 6th to June 10th, June 10th to June 14th, June 14th to June 18th and June 18th to June 22nd 2018. This will be a 4 night/5 day package and will include up to 40 hours of guided fishing, all meals and 4 nights accommodations. An added bonus will be that the VACUUM PACKING and FLASH FREEZING of your fish are included in this pricing. This is a heck of a good deal and this package would make a wonderful gift for the fisherman in your family. We will also have our fly-in service available from Seattle, Wash., or Vancouver, BC for these dates. You will also have the opportunity to target the early runs of CHINOOK and COHO that will be coming through our waters at the time of the season. The pricing for this exciting package is as follows: Party of 2 fishing, 2 per boat…$1875.00 PP + 5% tax (CAN). Party of 3 fishing, 3 per boat…$1675.00 PP + 5% tax (CAN). Party of 4 fishing, 4 per boat…$1475 PP + 5% tax (CAN). To make your reservations or for more information please give us a call at 1-800-429-5288 or send an email to: rodgersfishinglodge@yahoo.com Best regards, Doug Rodgers PS: With Halibut selling for upwards of $25.00 (CAN) per pound at your local fish market, you should easily be able to pay for your trip. You are allowed up to 6 Halibut, new for 2018, 4 Ling Cod and 8 Salmon in possession per angler. The biggest Ling Cod this past season was a 60 pounder. Come and fill your freezers!
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THEEDITOR’SNOTE
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ere at the beginning of our 10th year of publishing Northwest Sportsman, there’s a lot to be proud of and thankful for. Our monthly hunting and fishing magazine was launched in the darkest of recent economic times, and yet by offering a valuable, timely, actionable product to readers and advertisers, we’ve been going strong ever since. I can’t thank our readers and subscribers enough. You know you can count on our information on fisheries and hunts to be better able to take advantage of upcoming seasons. When you walk up to our booth at sportsmen’s shows and want to sign up for one, two, three more years – and still have time left on your existing subscription – it tells us we’re doing something right! I can’t thank our advertisers enough. You know we’re a great platform to get the word out about your products and services to a market segment that’s constantly seeking an edge to catch more salmon, walleye and lingcod and harvest more big game, waterfowl and upland birds. Thank you for your support! I can’t thank my support staff of salesmen, designers, press operators, drivers and front-office staffers enough either. They work literally behind the scenes to wrangle each month’s issue off my desk to newsstands and subscribers. Thanks, all! And finally, without my writers, this magazine would just be a whole lot of babble from yours truly, plus haikus. Lots of bad haikus, on Chinook, deer and the Ronde – Lord save us from that! But seriously, my stable of hook-and-bullet authors is what makes this endeavor really roll, providing the hows and wheres and whys and expert advice and time-tested tips that readers want to read and advertisers want to wrap their ads around. I couldn’t do it without you at this level – a humble and sincere thank you. As we at Northwest Sportsman continue on this wonderful journey, stick with us. It’s been a great ride – and it’s only getting better. –Andy Walgamott
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10th ANNIVERSARY TIMELINE Spring 1982
Media Index Publishing of Seattle founded
11 a.m., July 31, 2008 F&H News/Outdoor Empire Publishing GM announces company out of business, effective immediately Late August 2008
Former F&H News editor, two salesmen hired by Media Index
Sept. 2, 2008
Work begins on initial issue of Northwest Sportsman magazine
Late September 2008 October issue printed, shipped October 2008
First subscriber, Casey Sherman, and others sign up
Jan., Feb. 2009
Magazine staffers exhibit at first sportsmen’s shows (Puyallup, Portland), fielding hundreds of questions about what the heck happened to F&H, signing up many folks for subs
April 2009
Current format of Big Pic launched; Initial website, nwsportsmanmag.wordpress.com, goes live, posted to nearly 1,800 times
Dec. 2009
Popular Dishonor Roll feature runs for first time
February 2010
Northwest Sportsman Facebook page created; 13,519 followers (Oct. 4, 2017)
May 2010
Northwest Sportsman Twitter feed begins; 7,552 tweets as of Oct. 4, 2017
July 2010
First sister publication launched, Alaska Sporting Journal
October 2010
First issue of California Sportsman prints
December 2010
First annual Real Women of Northwest Fishing photo feature prints
January 2011
First annual Big Game Yearbook, highlighting previous season’s deer, elk and other large game harvested by readers
August 2011
New website, nwsportsmanmag.com, boots up; 6,929 posts published as of Oct. 4, 2017
June 2012
First Western Shooting Journal prints
Summer 2013
Northwest Sportsman bulges to 172 pages
April 2015
Name of Western Shooting Journal changes to American Shooting Journal to better reflect national distribution
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Years In Review Epic fish runs, epic fish run disasters. Wolves and sea lions, new state record fish, roadkill – it’s been a wild ride through the start of our 10th year! By Andy Walgamott
It’s been the good old days all over again for Columbia River salmon anglers, who’ve taken advantage of bumper fall Chinook runs from Buoy 10 (top) to the Hanford Reach to Hells Canyon in recent years. But the past 10 years have also seen increasing use of the courts by extremists to limit or end releases of hatchery fish, which provide the bulk of sport (left), commercial and tribal harvests, a concerning tactic in a highly modified environment unable to naturally carry the number of fish of 100 years ago.
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ell, that was interesting! Indeed, we’ve seen some pretty wild times with fish and wildlife across Oregon and Washington since putting out our first issue of Northwest Sportsman what seems like ages ago now. But for this special issue, I’d prefer not to bore you with reminiscences about how wonderful I think our coverage has been – suffice it to say, we’ve nailed some things and others, well, the cover curse is a bastard. Instead, I’m going to spotlight some of the major events and issues that have affected our world since we rolled out that first issue in October 2008. To wit.
COLUMBIA RIVER SALMON: GOOD OL’ DAYS In the nearly eight decades since fish counting began at Bonneville, only three years have seen more than 1 million Chinook check in at the lowest dam on the Columbia River, and they’ve all been in the past half decade – 2013, ’14 and
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’15. Fall Chinook provided much of the muscle in that trio, but June hog numbers have surged nicely and 2015 saw a pretty good springer run too. Speaking of two years ago, biologist Joe Hymer in Vancouver summarized that epic salmon fishing season well: “In the 240 days the Lower Columbia mainstem (including Buoy 10) was open for Chinook from February through October this year, there were 441,300 angler trips with
103,500 adult Chinook kept.” By comparison, as recently as 1995, only 189,419 adult kings – of all stocks – even passed Bonneville. Yes indeed, kids, the good old days can still happen in modern times. Meanwhile, the Columbia’s Chinook fishery has also been changing, driven by new baits and innovations to help anglers catch more fish. The introduction of Super Baits paired with Pro-Troll flashers and nwsportsmanmag.com | ANNIVERSARY ISSUE
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downriggers swept down the Columbia from the Brewster Pool summer Chinook fishery and is now routinely deployed for fall kings, even springers. We’ve also seen the wonderful rise of sockeye returns to Lake Wenatchee and the Okanogan River, thanks to natural and hatchery production on those systems. Upper Columbia Chinook returns will only continue to get better as a new facility there really gets cranking. And thanks to the Nez Perce Tribe, fall Chinook and coho have begun returning to Idaho in numbers not seen in decades, providing fishing opportunities too, while this spring saw the first release of silvers into Oregon’s Lostine, in the Grande Ronde watershed. Fishing will only get better!
FISH AND WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT As ever, how our fish and wildlife resources are managed has been a flash point during our years here, as runs and herds have waxed and waned and we, the commercials and tribes fight for our fair shares. We have seen several major victories. With the help of a sportsman- and conservation-minded fish and wildlife commission in Washington, those have included crab and shrimp allocations and revised salmon policies in Grays Harbor and Willapa Bays. The high tide mark might have been Columbia River salmon and sturgeon reforms both states agreed to and which were scheduled to take full effect this year – until Oregon began to back away from the deal as it applied to fall Chinook allocations. On the flip side, when Washington’s commission wanted to end all sturgeon fishing on the Columbia, Oregon’s said no dice, and so we’re still able to catch-and-
Sea lions and harbor seals are native to the Northwest, but when they gather at places like Bonneville Dam and Willamette Falls it’s easy pickin’s on salmon and steelhead, some runs of which are listed under the Endangered Species Act. (ODFW) release diamondsides with occasional keeper opportunities as stocks rebuild.
LAWSUITS The world’s a lawsuit-happy place these days, and sadly the fishing and hunting world is not immune from the scourge. Radical environmental groups have used the courts not only to try and tie state hands over wolf management but to
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attempt to scuttle hatchery salmon and steelhead production in western portions of Oregon and Washington. The jury is still out on the future of fishing for fin-clipped winter-runs in Puget Sound after the Wild Fish Conservancy went after programs on the last rivers using the Chambers Creek stock. Through the hard work of state, tribal and federal officials, permits were eventually granted to release Chambers Creek smolts but at the cost of lost seasons on some rivers, an end of stocking on the Skagit, and an overall reduction of releases. Cross your fingers that the clever efforts of hatchery staffers on the Stillaguamish and Nooksack systems were enough to keep those rivers’ runs and thus fisheries viable. On the Columbia, Mitchell Act-funded hatcheries were the target of another WFC lawsuit, this one leading to reduced fall Chinook production on the lower river and phasing out of out-of-basin steelhead smolt releases, but also increased spring Chinook and coho production at select hatcheries, among other changes.
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As large-scale fires destroy standing timber and in some cases homes and livelihoods, they’re also rejuvenating forests for big game. The so-called Tripod Buck, shot by Pete Fochesato in 2012, grew big in the fresh grits of a big burn in Okanogan County in 2006. (PETE FOCHESATO)
PINK SALMON EXPLOSION They’re an odd fish, pink salmon. Also known as humpies for the characteristic dorsal heap atop the males, they only return in odd years, but beginning in the early 2000s and crescendoing in 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2015 runs blew up in new rivers in Puget Sound. For extra credit, pinks even tried to colonize the Columbia. For ages, it was the northern “S” rivers – the Skagit, Stillaguamish and Snohomish – where the species did best, but for reasons that baffle the biologists, pink populations exploded in the South Sound’s Green-Duwamish, Nisqually and Puyallup, leading to a record 10-plusmillion-fish run in 2011. The fishing flew past gangbusters, with annual sport saltwater and freshwater catches between 400,000 and 514,000 since 2009, according to state statistics. No, they’re not as tasty as Chinook, coho or sockeye, but they fight wonderfully, led to more hook-ups for more anglers, introduced many newbies to the water, and helped stimulate the fishing industry as other stocks struggled.
FUR & FANGS: PROBLEMS WITH PREDATORS Predator populations are pretty healthy these days – too healthy in some cases. Indeed, it seems like sea lions, harbor seals, wolves and northern pike are helping themselves more and more to the larder that is the Northwest, and that’s beginning to impact other species dangerously. Two cases in point: wild Willamette 10 Northwest Sportsman
River winter steelhead are now “on the verge of extinction” because of all the sea lions that gather below the falls to feast, like their forefather Herschel did once upon a time at the Ballard Locks, eating Lake Washington steelhead into oblivion. A bill in Congress would give fishery managers more latitude in dealing with the plentiful pinnipeds as their numbers grow in the Lower Columbia basin. Well to the northeast, the last caribou to haunt the Lower 48 are barely hanging on as wolf predation, along with other factors, runs the herd to ground. On the British Columbia side of the border, wolves are being culled in a desperate attempt to save the South Selkirk woodland caribou, while on the Washington side, the number of wolves has grown from eight when we began this magazine to well over 100, with similar growth in Oregon. Wildlife managers say they’re not seeing impacts on deer and elk herds, but wolves are affecting the behavior of big game, and hunters will increasingly need to adjust to find their quarry as packs increase and spread further across the region. In Puget Sound, increasing numbers of harbor seals may be having a big impact on outmigrating Endangered Species Actlisted steelhead smolts. Meanwhile, pike are advancing down Lake Roosevelt, but where managers have to wear kid gloves for those other species due to federal and state protections and lawsuit-happy groups, they’re bringing the hammer down on northerns, gillnetting them in an effort to keep them from getting into the Columbia below Grand Coulee, where key salmon and steelhead stocks swim.
instituted unprecedented Montanastyle summer fishing restrictions, then fire season and a bluetongue outbreak amongst whitetail deer exploded. Meanwhile, at sea, the Blob was starving salmon stocks; the average coho caught at the big Everett derby that September was roughly half the size of usual. And while pink salmon catches set records, it was only because the fish were desperately eating any and everything in sight to gain mass before heading for the gravel. Before Father Time was able to escort 2015 out the door in handcuffs, the year would cruelly aim four fall floods at the spawning beds, depressing pink returns in 2017 sharply. “This year can end any time,” noted Madonna Luers, a WDFW spokesman, at the time. “It was kind of a nasty year. It was hard on things, it was hard on things.” But sadly, we’re still dealing with hangover from the Blob as the ocean attempts to steady itself.
ROADKILL TACOS, ANYONE? It may just go down as the most popular thing the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife has ever done – opened roadkill season. Certainly, our coverage of a Fish and Wildlife Commissioner’s 2016 bid to allow residents to salvage deer and elk hit by vehicles produced a lot of hits and likes, but the demand was there all along from hunters and others who hate to see good meat go to waste. In the first year of the program, more than 1,600 animals were collected from
2015, THE WORST SUMMER EVER You could literally fill a magazine with all the fish and wildlife news that occurs annually, and on our blog we’ve certainly gone long with annual years in review. But one 12-month period stands out as utterly unlike anything we’ve ever seen: 2015. It began with a mild January, even in the mountains where snow fell as rain instead, and went downhill from there. That year was the peak of The Blob, that vast pool of too-warm water in the North Pacific. By July, the lack of snowpack had reduced rivers to creeks, and an early-summer hot spell literally poached hundreds of thousands of sockeye in the Columbia and led to the deaths of dozens of oversize sturgeon too. Oregon and Washington
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Washington residents enthusiastically took to salvaging roadkilled elk and deer across the state immediately after the opportunity became available in mid-2016. After one year, 1,427 blacktails, whitetails and muleys and 183 elk had been collected. (NWSPORTSMANMAG.COM)
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Ron Campbell’s world record Wallowa kokanee capped off a remarkable run for the Northeast Oregon lake as a small but very stout year-class of the landlocked sockeye matured. (RON CAMPBELL) all corners of the state, with the residents of Olympia, Spokane and Port Angeles in particular picking up their share of the blacktop bounty. Earlier this year, Oregon’s legislature OK’ed collecting roadkill too, but Beaver State ditch diners won’t be able to start salvaging until Jan. 1, 2019 – just remember this saying, kids: “Sunny and hot? Stays on the asphalt; Cold and cloudy? Jump out and load the Audi!”
RECORDS WRITTEN, REWRITTEN We’d like to boast about our own catches, but there have been some actually remarkable fish caught since we began publishing. In summer 2009, signs began to emerge that some sort of super race of kokanee had taken over Wallowa Lake, in Northeast Oregon. A 7-pounder was penciled into the state record book, then an upper 7, then an 8 and an upper 8 before Ron Campbell slammed the hook home on his 9-pound, 7.8-ounce world record in June 2010. “This one here, it tore me up. Pound for pound on light tackle, that was a thrill … That was a handful,” he told us the day after landing it. Wallowa’s been quiet ever since that small but very, very prodigious year-class of the landlocked sockeye swam into the great beyond, but we’ve seen more than a few other records set, and chief among them might be John Grubenhoff’s walleye. In the words of Jason Bauer, a longtime walleye fishery observer, “Topping 20 pounds is the 12 Northwest Sportsman
real deal,” and that’s exactly what Johnny Blade did in February 2014 on the Columbia River below Tri-Cities. Grubenhoff’s 20.32 was nearly a pound heavier than the previous top Washington walleye and a few ounces heavier than Oregon’s, forever securing the Big C as the place to go in North America for big walleye these days. While there’s been a fair amount of turnover on the koke and ’eye front in recent years, what was Washington’s largemouth record might as well have been chiseled in hieroglyphics it had been around so long. Well, until an Ohio basser by the name of Bill Evans settled on the Westside, logged onto WDFW’s Fish Washington page one day last August and said to himself, “Hmm, I wonder what Bosworth Lake might hold.” A 12.53-pounder, as it turned out, breaking a nearly 40-year-old record! While the salmon fishing has at times been record breaking, no new high marks for ocean-going Chinook, coho, pinks, chums or sockeye have been set in Oregon and Washington in some time. Not so in Idaho. Following the reintroduction of coho, anglers were able to fish for sea-run silvers for the first time in ages in 2014 and promptly began filling that page of the record book, with Steve Micek’s 11.8-pounder the standing big fish. One note on the saltwater side of the record ledger: Between warm currents bringing tropical and subtropical fish closer to our shores and sport boats being built to go further and further out for albacore, unusual species are being picked up. In 2013, Albert DaSilva brought in a 16.27-pound dolphinfish, or mahi mahi as it’s known further south, back to Ilwaco, a first for that
species. The same year saw the first opah record set, broken two years later by Jim Watson fishing out of Westport. His was 35.67 pounds. Bluefin tuna are less rare, but the current record 39.2-pounder was caught off Westport in 2014 by Sam Ellinger.
THE FUTURE OF NW FISHING, HUNTING Leading off where I left off in that last section, I think I have reason to be optimistic about the future of our sport here in the Northwest. I think we’re going to see increasing focus on fishing for plentiful ocean stocks such as albacore tuna with a dash of other saltwater species thrown in. That’s a good solid recipe for more and more boat, gear and fishing method innovations. Indeed, there’s no more inveterate tinkerer than an angler who wants to catch more and bigger fish. I think that now that we’re over the hump from the Blob, our salmon runs are going to recover and see a return to solid fishing both in the saltwater and in the rivers and select lakes. Though I know habitat work takes ages for benefits to be realized, I also worry that not enough is being done on that front. I think that cash-strapped WDFW and ODFW are going to increasingly focus on serving their customers, us, with opportunity. And I’m hopeful that the rumors I hear of a new federal funding source for nongame work come to pass. And while our deer and elk herds are posing increasing challenges for private landowners, the flip side of 2015’s and other recent years’ fires is that they’ve helped turn too-dense tinderbox mountain forests back into better big game habitat. See you in the Northwest’s woods and on our waters! NS
The remarkable thing about Bill Evans’ Washington record largemouth bass is he caught the 12-pluspounder in August – how much bigger it might have been laden with eggs in spring is anybody’s guess. (WDFW)
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MERCURY KICKER MOTORS FACTORY TO YOUR DOOR! 25hp & under • Must meet program requirements • Call now! Good Used Boats, Boats Repair Parts Parts, Quality Service, Service Knowlegeable Staff
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14900 SE Stark St. • Portland, OR 97233 Hours: Mon-Fri 8am-6pm • Sat 9am-3pm
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THE RADROVER IS THE ULTIMATE ALL-PURPOSE ELECTRIC BIKE THAT STILL LOOKS LIKE A BIKE BUT FEELS LIKE A JET. GET OUT, GO FURTHER, AND HAVE MORE FUN FOR UNDER $1,500!
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OCEAN TRAPS INTERNATIONAL Catch your limit every day of the season with our plastic trap. It does everything it’s supposed to do: catch Dungeness crabs, spot prawns, tanner crabs, spot shrimp, lobster and more. Why plastic and not steel? No corrosion, no rust stains, no electrolysis. We use a high-quality, virgin high-density polyethylene that withstands subzero cold and doesn’t corrode, providing many years of use without leaving rust stains on your deck. With no threat from electrolysis, you don’t need to add a sacrificial anode. The trap’s oval shape helps shellfish find the entrance. No sharp corners means no damage to the hull. Our traps save deck space too. A stack of four assembled traps stands only 2 feet high. Each trap is just $75.00 plus shipping, or they can be picked up in Arlington, Wash. We’ve been in business since 1997 and our traps are made in America, in Chino, Calif.
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SALES • SERVICE • ENGINES No Sales tax in Oregon!
MERCURY KICKER MOTORS K FACTORY TO YOUR DOOR! 25hp & under • Must meet program requirements • Call now!
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Built for Adventure! Parker, Thunder Jet, Boulton, Fish-Rite, Crestliner We now have Parker pilothouse models in stock.
With our factory-trained technicians for Yamaha, Suzuki, Mercury, Tohatsu and Honda motors, we can handle any project from electronic installs to complete boat and motor overhauls.
Need a new motor for your current boat? Best prices around on Repowers!
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NEW LARGER LOCATION!
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Welcome Aboard, Custom Weld! We are excited to become the Western Washington dealer for Custom Weld boats.
All boats powered by Honda Motors
9316 Portland Ave. E., Tacoma, WA, 98445 253-301-4013 • www.tacomaboatsales.com Always wear a personal flotation device while boating and read your owner’s manual. 2014 American Honda Motor Co., Inc. ®
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TRUCK CAMPERS / TOY HAULERS TRAVEL TRAILERS / 5TH 5 WHEELS CUSTOMER FRIENDLY PRICING!
1-5 Exit 36 • Kelso, WA
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We Are The Most Fun Operation On The Water! • One Day “Run & Gun” Tuna Charters: Catch Tuna ‘til Your Arms Fall Off & Home By Five • Faster, More Fuel-Efficient Boat: We Spend Less Time Running & More Time Fishing • American Made Seeker Rods & American Made Seigler Reels: We Have The Best Equipment In The Business!
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“Old Fashioned Alaskan Hospitality” • Open year-round • Varied breakfast menu featuring Alaskan products • 4 rooms with private baths, off-street parking, TV/DVD/VCR/WIFI • 2 miles to downtown Anchorage
A great overnight stay to and from your hunting or fishing trip!
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KODIAK RUSSIAN RIVER LODGE Bed & Breakfast Easy Access To A Variety Of Outdoor Activities: Fishing, Hunting, Sight-seeing Walking Distance To The Ocean, Sergeant Creek, Russian River!
11322 South Russian Creek Rd., Kodiak AK, 99615 907.487.4430 • kodiakrussianriverlodge.com 60 Northwest Sportsman
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Southeast Alaska
The Annie Mae Lodge
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World Class fishing! • Pacific Halibut • Salmon • Rock Fish
Call us for Custom Packages!
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3820 Harrison Ave. Centralia, WA 98531 (360) 736-6340 www.powershopcentralia.com
WHEN IT REALLY MATTERS, WHERE DO YOU WANT YOUR GUN? “THE ULTIMATE” CHEST HOLSTERS High quality, heavy duty construction, tough enough for Alaska. Resistant to cracking, stretching, shrinking, & dry rot. No oiling needed. 28 models, X Frame Holsters, Revolver Holsters, Semi-Auto Holsters. Right and left hand draw. Made in Alaska by Alaskans; Made in the USA! Some models now available in Coyote and digital camo colors.
907.414.4327
www. ManGearAlaska.com
PO BOX 874791 Wasilla, AK 99687 We value our customers! Limited lifetime warranty
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Lens Lawnmower Service Inc. 5170 W. Shaw Ave Fresno, CA 93722 Phone: (559) 222-6849 Fax: (559) 277-4639 Store Hours: Monday 8:00am - 5:30pm Tuesday 8:00am - 5:30pm Wednesday 8:00am - 5:30pm Thursday 8:00am - 5:30pm
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