2014-2015 Lake Sonoma Pig Hunt Information

[Rangerjoel]

Ladies and gentlemen,
I am pleased to announce that the Friends of Lake Sonoma will be hosting pig hunts here at Lake Sonoma again this fall starting November22 and ending March 26. Rachel Mack A.K.A. VC girl has left the park and moved up to another Corps project in Oregon, so we will be unable to do mail-inregistrations this year. We will however make passes available at the local archery shops, the marina and the visitor center. I should have the passes out to the archery shops and the marina by Friday and the VC will start selling them tomorrow. Have a look at the attached documents for more information.
Joel Miller
Supervisory Park Ranger
Moderator: can this topic replace the previously pinned huntinformation for the park?

 

[sabershooter]

What are the visitor center hours. This is a bummer we can't do it by mail I am 3 plus hours away and don't get there till late Friday nights
Can u list what archery shops we are able to register at for I can find there hours

 

[bsanders8181]

Thanks Joel. We really appreciate this.

 

[hunterdoug]

Thanks Joel.

 

[Bigbadboar]

Excellent! Thank you Joel.

 

[THE ROMAN ARCHER]

Carson ( Bigbadboar ) my friend I am glad we had a chance to hunt lake Sonoma together bro. Good luck to u this season.
I am really going to miss hunting the lake, always looked forward to challenge and physicality hunting wild pigs there.
Ranger Joel I am glad we had a chance too chat when we did while I hunted the lake.
Jayson ( White Mamba ) I am very glade I had a chance and privilege to hunt with u too there at the lake my friend, u where the first jho member to take me under your wing and show me around when I was a rookie first trying to learn to hunt the lake. I learned a lot and u are a great guy.
Jason ( jb229 ) going to miss hunting and hanging out at the lake with u and your dad too for sure my friend those will always be the good Ole days for me now!
I can't believe my old @$$ use to hump up and down those little big hills thank god I always stayed in shape and lake Sonoma will keep u in shape or either break u down...lol
Good luck to everyone and for u newbies that never hunted the lake I still think it's one of the best public land places to hunt in nor cal successful or not......tra

Here's me and Carson from a couple of seasons back sharing good times together as jho members hunting the lake........

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[Mikey88]

Thanks Joel! Another season at the lake!

 

[Rangerjoel]

There is a small SNAFU.

There is a small SNAFU.
I currently only have 100 boat passes. More are being printed by the vender, but in the mean time, we will only be selling passes at the Visitor Center until we get the print order delivered. :skeered:

 

[Rangerjoel]

9:00am-4:00pm Wednesday - Sunday

but call to be sure, some times we have people there on days that it is usualy closed

Phone number is 707-431-4533

Joel

 

[Rangerjoel]

Ok the printing SNAFU is fixed and the passes have been sent out to Turra’s Archery Shop in Santa Rosa and West Coast Archery in Petaluma. I have also been told that (depending on their mood) some of the volunteers at the Visitor Center are mailing passes out. (This is entirely up to them and not the parks or the FOLS policy so ask nice!)
This looks like it is going to be a good year, I jumped a sounder at the spring on “No Name” last week. Couple of big ones and some “eaters”.
Time for game cams!

 

[Sawdog]

Thanks for the info Joel. Hope to get to the lake this year for pigs.

 

[Jessedlc2]

my 10 and 14 yo sons got drawn for a junior turkey hunt this fall, I was wondering if any body could give me some advice on how to locate them. We will be coming up from los angels and since they are in school we wont have time to scout. I plan on starting in the yorty creek area. any help is appreciated, thanks in advance

 

[Huntr Pat]

How are the water levels so far?

 

[Jessedlc2]

How are the water levels so far?

I hear very low. according to ranger joel launching at yorty creek is about 1/4 mile past the ramp

 

[THE ROMAN ARCHER]

Well there's been almost no rain up there for the past 2 years. About 30 ft. Lower then a few years ago. I remember when the water was all the way up to the tree lines on the bank.
Wow its weird that I won't be there to hunt anymore, about a month and it's on for piggies.
Here's some photos to give u an idea.......tra
Sorry for the extra photos and out of order using a different feature on Tapatalk and it's messing up.

Here's a photo from 2012.
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Here's one from March 2014.
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Yorty creek boat lunch.
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[Rangerjoel]

Pigs? Yes, we have pigs.
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On a side note, we had our first reported hiker/hunter altercation and it’s not what you might expect. Some hikers confronted one of my hunters and told him that he could not be in the park!
I’ve directed the ranger staff to post hunting informationon the traffic advisory sign at the entrance to the park and post huntinginformation on the trailhead bulletin boards explaining that you guys are performing a public service by helping us control the population and you are also funding the park operations as well as supporting the Department of Fishand Wildlife.

We will try to do a better job of informing the public of what you folks are doing. Once they understand, they usually are supportive.

I also have to put in a "plug" for the cabin at Liberty Glen now that the weather has gotten nasty…err, I mean ideal for quiet stalking,
if you need a small cabin to stay in out of the weather you can make arrangements by calling Virginia (our camp host) at 707-431-1152.
Joel Miller
Supervisory Ranger
Lake Sonoma

 

[bsanders8181]

Thanks Joel. Supervisory Ranger... I like the new title, congrats

 

[CApighunter]

Joel, if you want to add the fact that dogs must be on a leash when informing the public about hunters that would be much appreciated. I had a dog off leash run off two pigs on the opening weekend.

 

[flytrue]

Yeah, I've had off leash dogs threaten me while on the trail.

 

[trackboss]

Thanks for doing a great service for us hunters Joel. I went up there today and the first thing I noticed was the huge sign informing anyone driving by about the hunt.