Stevenson businesses offer discount to hikers
STEVENSON — The second annual fall Hike the Gorge weekend is Friday through Sunday, with many Stevenson businesses offering a 10 percent discount for hikers.
Hikers will need to mention the weekend and provide proof of their hike via a photo or video. Businesses participating include Walking Man Brewery, Big River Grill, El Rio Texicantina, Robbie’s Coffee Shop, Andrew’s Pizza, Columbia Hardware, Klickitat Canyon Winery Tasting Room, Bloomsbury, Out on a Limb, Tin Roof Rusted, and Lizette Boutique.
Hikes can be as strenuous as Dog Mountain or Table Mountain, or as family friendly at the Skamania Lodge trails.
Other suggested hikes include Falls Creek Falls No. 152A and Whistle Punk No. 159 in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest or the Cape Horn loop in western Skamania County.
Book chronicles epic hunts
A 280-page book entitled “Big Trophies, Epic Hunts,” is available for purchase from the Boone and Crockett Club.
The book contains 30 true stories about determined hunters and world-class trophies — most taken on public land without a guide.
“These are the real-world stories behind some of the most legendary, top-scoring trophies ever recognized by the Boone and Crockett Club,” said Julie Tripp, director of publications for the Club.
The book costs $29.95 in hardcover and $19.95 in paperback.
For more information, go online to www.boone-crockett.org or call 1-888-840-4868.
Oregon tags 500 Hagg Lake fish
Oregon officials are asking anglers to report if they catch a tagged fish in Henry Hagg Lake of Washington County.
Five hundred tagged fish have been stocked, a small portion of the 15,000 fish released, according to Ben Walczak, an Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist.
The tagging is to help quantify the harvest, movement and growth of stocked fish. Oregon began a similar program in Wallowa Lake earlier this year.
Walczak said he wants to see how many of the fall released fish survive the winter and are available to sportsmen next spring. Some of the tags are worth a $50 reward.
If the fish is released, anglers are asked to asked to cut the tag off at the base rather than to try to rip the tag out. Tags can be reported in person, by mail, by phone or on the agency’s web site.
Reward tags must be return to the ODFW Clackamas office in person or by mail.
The address is 17330 S.E. Evelyn St., Clackamas, Ore., 97015. The telephone number is 971-673-6000.
