Sportsmans News

The Sportsman’s News team of Kent Danjanovich and Rick Rosenberg just arrived in Yakutat, Alaska hosted by the Yakutat Lodge. We will be hitting the Situk River early tomorrow morning in pursuit of big steelhead. Stay tuned for updates and hopefully some great photos!!! Day one, we had ten hook-ups and landed four nice steelhead, the biggest 30 inches. The river is loaded with fishermen, but new fish are wooking their way into the river. Our last day on the river was overcast and wet, tough filming but good fishing conditions. Eight hook-ups and four nice steelhead landed. Pods of fish were more evident our last day which will be good news for the rest of the month on the Situk. Watch for my feature story on my trip from last September in our July issue.

Spring snow geese in Colorado doesn’t get any better than this.  Guy Perkins of Camp Chef, Bart Miller and Adam Nicosia of Goal Zero and myself had a great morning shoot during our hunt last week with Mike Adams of Webbed Feet Down in northeastern Colorado.  Our group of eight hunters downed 125 snows in two days!

NWTF Hunting Heritage Banquets

Come and join in the fun of a local National Wild Turkey Federation Hunting Heritage Super Fund-raising banquet. The NWTF banquets are where you can buy exclusive merchandise, participate in live and silent auctions and have a great time with friends. All the while, you will be raising vital funds for wild turkey conservation and important programs that introduce the outdoors to men, women, children and the disabled.  Here is a list of banquets for the NWTF Chapters in Utah and some of the great conservation tags available:

March 3rd

Nephi, Lynn Worwood (801-368-5834) Tags…Central Mts./Manti Elk, Central, Northeast & Southern Turkey

Moab, John Smith (435-260-1495)  Tags…La Sal Mtn. Elk, Southeast Turkey (2) & Northeast Turkey

March 10th

Salt Lake, Mike Fowlks (801-243-8619)  Tags…Book Cliffs/Bitter Creek Elk, State Wide Turkey & Northeast Turkey

March 23rd

St. George, Kent Danjanovich (801-231-9838)  Tags…Monroe Elk, Southern Turkey (2), Mt. Dutton/Paunsuagunt Landowner Antelope (2)

March 24th

Ogden, Jon Leonard (801-721-7424)  Tags…North Slope/3-Corner’s Elk, Paunsaugunt Deer, Northern Turkey (2)

March 30th

Richfield, Gregg Abbott (435-896-3842)  Tags…Southern Turkey (2)

April 7th

Tooele, Ty Anderson (435-830-4660)  Tags…West Desert/Vernon Deer, Central, Northeast & Central Turkey

For more information on NWTF fund-raising banquets in your area, contact your NWTF Regional Director or call (800) THE-NWTF.

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The 2012 Shot Show was another great success.  The Las Vegas Sands Expo Center hosted the big event with over 60,000 vendors, suppliers, retailers and the media stolling the the floors in search of the newest innovations for the coming year.  Watch for our March issue that will feature some of the newest products to watch for at your local Sportsman’s Warehouse.  We even hit the shooting range last Monday to try out some of the best new guns on the market.  I can’t wait to get my hands on the new Browning A5 Shotgun as a new addition to my gun collection.  The new design is sleek and smooth and if the time I spent with it on the trap range is any indication, game birds on my hunting trips this fall better watch out!

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The Sportsman’s News team of Kent Danjanovich and Rick Rosenberg hit the Situk and Italio Rivers hard for fall silvers the last week of September.  The rains tried to dampen their spirits, but the fish seemed to not mind the elements as both experienced big numbers of hookups on both flyrods and baitcasting setups.  Their next stop in Yakutat will be May 2012 for spring steelhead again based at Ken and Kip Fannings Yakutat Lodge.

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The Team of Kent Danjanovich and Kevin Orton traveled to Minnesota for a visit with Arrowhead Wilderness Outfitters in quest of fall black bear.  The temperatures were hot, but we got the job done on this nice bruin with the a perfect black coat for mounting.  Watch for the upcoming story of our hunt and DVD placement in the months to come.

The Team of Kent Danjanovich and Kevin Orton completed their whirlwind tour in Alaska with a final stop at Tree Tops Lodge on Prince of Wales Island. Their Thorne Bay location was breathtaking and the fishing was great as well. The second run of silvers were just starting to show up and the halibut, yellow eye and lingcod were cooperating too! Stay tuned for a recap on this great southeast Alaska lodge in an upcoming edition of the Sportsman’s News.

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The SN Team of Kent Danjanovich and Kevin Orton hit it big in Seward, Alaska with Hill Norvell’s Alaska Fishing. The silvers were running thick and the halibut, lingcod and rockfish were also cooperating. Watch for the details in an upcoming issue of the Sportsman”s News.

Kent Danjanovich and Kevin Orton  are tearing up the waters in Alaska with Kingfisher’s Perch. Watch for a future article and upcoming episode of Sportsman’s News Television.

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Another great adventure for the Sportsman’s News Team in southeast Alaska with Laughing Raven Lodge, located about 65 miles south of Sitka in the tiny town of Port Alexander. What a beautiful setting and the fishing wasn’t too bad either! Watch for the full story is our September issue.

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The Sportsman’s News team of Kent Danjanovich and Rick Rosenberg just returned from a great trip to Prince of Wales Island with Fireweed Lodge. Bob and Jeane Anderson run a great operation and the king salmon fishing was hot, hot, hot!

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The Sportsman’s News Team of Kent Danjanovich and Kevin Orton just returned from Elk Island Lodge in Manitoba, Canada and their God’s Lake location didn’t let us down. The pike, walleye and lake trout fishing was superb and our fly-out to God’s River for trophy brook trout was one of the best day’s we have ever experienced. We are happy to welcome Elk Island Lodge as our newest Platinum Approved Outfitter!

The Sportsman’s News Team of Kent Danjanovich, Rick Rosenberg, Colby Labrum and Clint Neilson made the trip north of the boarder in search of giant northern pike, big lake trout and world class walleye. You can tell by the smiles in these photos that the trip was a rousing success! Watch for the full story in the August issue of the Sportsman’s News.

The Sportsman’s News Team of Kent Danjanovich, Dave Heath and George Dansie just returned from Pybus Point Lodge in Southeast Alaska for a little early season fishing. Although the steelhead were elusive, we did manage to land some nice kings up to 40+ pounds in the calm water of the inner passage. The halibut were starting to congregate also and we were able to put a few in the freezer!

If you are looking to save a little money on your trip to Alaska this summer, check out the Alaska Airlines Bank of America Visa Card. For just signing up, you will receive 25,000 points, enough for a round trip flight to Alaska from just about any destination in the country. You will also receive a $99 companion fare that can be used in conjunction with any full-fare ticket purchase every 12 months. If you buy a ticket at full price, you can book another traveler on the same flight for $99 plus taxes. A great deal and well worth looking into!

The Sportsman’s News Crew had another successful hunt in Kansas with Arrowhead Wilderness Outfitters. Spring turkeys were abundant and ready for action during the second week of April with the bow! Kent Danjanovich and Eric Heath let em’ fly and came away with nice longbeards. Kent’s Rio scored an impressive 69 4/8, weighing in at over 24 pounds, with a nine inch beard and spurs measuring slighly over 1 1/2 inches.