Hunting at San Jacinto Wildlife area is at an excellent pace for this time of year. Tom Trakes, from San Jacinto, reported that the results for Saturday, 12/4/10 were as follows:
112 adult and 8 junior hunters checked in 235 Northern Shovelers, 34 Widgeon, 6 Canvasbacks, 4 Buffelheads, 14 Cinnamon Teal, 31 Gadwall, 4 Green Wing Teal, 8 Mallards, 9 Pintail, 2 Red Heads, 7 Ring Necks, 14 Ruddys, 6 Scaup and 3 Coot for a 3.1 average. The bag also included 2 Ross’s Geese. Tom predicted that when the teal show up big –time the shooting will really take off!
Tom advised that out of 50 reservation cards 23 showed up on time.
Don’t forget, when you go to San Jacinto, that they are now in the middle of their annual toy drive for Loma Linda Children’s Hospital (see the prior post here about the toy drive for details) so bring a toy for the barrel! Tom told me one of their big sponsors is not having a barrel for them this year so its more important then ever for the hunters to step up to the plate and bring in some toys.
San Jacinto is open for waterfowl hunting on Wednesdays and Saturdays only. You can put in for reservations through the state reservation system (your card has to be to Fish and Game in Sacramento 17 days in advance to get in on the drawing – buy one day and five day reservation cards at your local license agent AKA: sporting goods store) or you can get in on the daily “sweatline” drawing for the remaining blinds after the reservations are taken care of. Reservation spots are given out starting at 3 AM and the “sweatline” drawing is done after that. You can also show up for an afternoon refill hunt but the last refill is at 1 PM. For more information, contact the staff at San Jacinto at 951-928-0580.
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