CRAIG HILL
Craig Hill is The News Tribune’s injury-prone Adventure writer. After eight years covering college football and basketball, he started writing about adventure sports in 2004. He writes about everything from mountaineering and cycling to skiing and camping. You can reach him at craig.hill@thenewstribune.com
JEFFREY P. MAYOR
Jeffrey P. Mayor has been The News Tribune’s Adventure editor since 2003, and oversees our weekly Adventure section. His coverage focuses on fishing, hunting, Mount Rainier and the state Department of Fish and Wildlife. You can reach him at jeff.mayor@thenewstribune.com
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Recreational halibut anglers will have to wait two weeks more than last year before hitting the water. The state Department of Fish and Wildlife has annnounced fishing in most areas of Puget Sound will open April 23. The two-week delay is because of a reduction in catch quotas for 2009.
Anglers also will have fewer days to fish for halibut on the coast, said Michele Culver, Region 6 director for the department, which includes Pierce County. Fishing seasons set by the department are based on a stock assessment and quotas established for the Pacific coast — from Alaska to California — by the International Pacific Halibut Commission.
Here is the rest of the department's news release:
This year’s quota for Washington, Oregon and California is 950,000 pounds, down from 1.22 million pounds in 2008. In Washington, sport anglers will be allowed to catch 214,110 pounds of halibut compared to 232,807 pounds last year.
Here is a note I found that Port Gamble musher Laura Daugereau posted March 17 on her Web site. It gives some insight on her decision to pull out of this year's Iditarod Sled Dog Race:
Thank you all for your letters and phone calls to my Dad wondering what happened and how my team and I are doing. I will try to write back when I can, but I will not have time until I am back home in WA:) I am in Grayling right now at the school computer and it's about 1:00am. I am still on race mode, meaning I can't sleep for very long at a time. My team is doing great and don't really know why we are still sitting here and letting all the other teams leave! From Corrie's posts you know what happened so I won't go on about that. I talked with her today and she will be putting up another post with some more information as to what is happening now.
