Attention all outdoorsman and women!
NAMPA — Personnel from the Idaho Department of Fish and Game’s Nampa Hatchery will be releasing more than 18,000 catchable-sized rainbow trout at the following locations during March. Following are the scheduled releases, by week, location and number of trout.
• Boise River – Barber Dam to Glenwood, March 8, 1,440 trout
• Boise River – Eagle Rd. to Middleton, March 1, 1,440
• Crane Falls Reservoir (Bruneau), March 22, 1,200
• Dick Knox Pond (Emmett), March 22, 800
• Duff Lane Pond (Middleton), March 1, 325
• Eagle Island Park Pond, March 15, 450
• Eds Pond (Emmett), March 15, 200
• Esthers Pond (Boise), March 22, 600
• Indian Creek (Caldwell), March 1, 225
• Indian Creek (Kuna), March 15, 250
• Kleiner Pond (Meridian), March 8, 900
• Legacy Park Pond (Mt. Home), March 15, 350
• Mariposa Pond (Boise), March 8 and 22, 125 each week
• Marsing Pond, March 1, 550
• McDevitt Pond (Boise), March 8 and 22, 450 each week
• Mill Pond (Horseshoe Bend), March 15, 650
• Nicholson Pond (Kuna), March 1, 400
• Parkcenter Pond (Boise), March 15, 700
• Payette River Pond, March 15, 550
• Riverside Pond (Garden City), March 8 and 22, 600 each week
• Rotary Pond (Caldwell), March 1, 900
• Sawyers Pond (Emmett), March 22, 500
• Settlers Pond (Meridian), March 8 and 22, 125 each week
• Star City Pond West, March 22, 600
• Weiser Community Pond, March 15, 500
• Williams Pond (Boise), March 15, 450
• Wilson Ponds (Nampa) March 1, 8, 15 and 22, 400 each week
• Wilson Springs (Nampa), March 1 and 15, 350 each week
The number of trout actually released may be altered by weather, water conditions, equipment problems or schedule changes. If delays occur, trout will be stocked when conditions become favorable.
The steelhead are coming!
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Approximately 250 steelhead will be stocked in the Boise River on the afternoon of Thursday, November 19. Trapped at Hells Canyon Dam on the Snake River, the fish will be released in equal numbers at five locations: Glenwood Bridge, Americana Bridge, below the Broadway Avenue Bridge behind Boise State University, at West Parkcenter Bridge and at Barber Park.
Besides a fishing license, anglers hoping to tangle with one of the hatchery steelhead need a steelhead permit, good for 20 fish. Boise River steelhead limits are two fish per day, six in possession, and 20 for the fall season. Though required in other steelhead waters, barbless hooks are not required for Boise River steelhead angling.
All steelhead stocked in the Boise River will lack an adipose fin (the small fin normally found immediately behind the dorsal fin). Boise River anglers catching a rainbow trout longer than 20 inches that lacks an adipose fin should consider the fish a steelhead. Any steelhead caught by an angler not holding a steelhead permit must immediately be returned to the water.
The hatchery steelhead are returning to the Idaho Power Company-owned and funded Oxbow Hatchery fish trap below Hells Canyon Dam on the Snake River. Many of the returning steelhead will become part of the ongoing steelhead hatchery program at Oxbow Hatchery as part of Idaho Power Company’s mitigation.
For more information regarding the Boise River steelhead release, contact the Fish and Game Nampa office at 208-465-8465 or check the department’s web site at http://idfg.idaho.gov/fish/steelhead.
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Idaho has some of the widest variety and best big game hunting in the west, and general seasons for most species. Idaho has some of the best elk hunting in the world. Deer are found throughout Idaho, with whitetails found primarily north of the Salmon River, and are generally hunted later in the fall than mule deer.
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Crops such as beets, onions, chard, carrots, lettuce, spinach, the cabbage family, radishes, peas, and turnips grow well in an early garden. Warm weather crops, such as corn, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, beans, melons, and squash require all danger of frost to have passed before seedling emergence or transplanting.
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Here in Idaho most flowers should be planted after your region's last frost date. Planting flowers in spring here in Idaho is the most popular time, but perennials do fine if planted in early fall in the North and late fall in the South.