Press Release: 2013 International Sportsman's Expo Sacramento

Ready to shop, have fun, compete, learn, and pass on the outdoors tradition to family or friends?

www.SportsExpos.com

ISE Sacramento--California’s largest collection of fishing, hunting and outdoor products, sportfishing boats and travel destinations--is your one-stop destination to get everything you need to be successful and have fun in the outdoors!

Plus hands-on special features, contests, 200+ free seminars and demonstrations spread throughout the entire show,

Come check out the Youth Fair, too, which opens Friday at 3pm in Building D (white tent). This year's proud sponsors are California Inland Fisheries Foundation and the National Rifle Association.[info provided by Sportsexpos.com]

Deer Tour - one of the many events at the ISE

G & J Outdoors is pleased to be part of this fantastic event located at California's capitol city - Sacramento! Our outfitter booth is equipped with audio/visual experience and our master guide - Cary Jellison - is on site to answer questions. Book your upcoming hunt right here at the ISE and you're sure to get the best experience.

We invite you to come down and join in California's largest hunting expo!

Cary Jellison's New Hunting Blog

Welcome to Cary Jellison’s new hunting blog

Let’s set the tone – It’s about Hunting, Fishing, Integrity, Respect for the animals and the land and……an awesome experience!

I can think of no better way to spend a day than out in nature with my three hunting dogs—no technology, no TV, no cell phone, no email. 

 

An early morning hike looking for the elusive chukar or taking in the beauty of the rugged Nevada Mountains is my peace. 

 

Making a delicious meal from the day’s harvest is rewarding, but the memories of the “hunt” are irreplaceable. 

 

The experiences and the friendships are why we say – Come to G & J Outdoors as a client; Leave as a Friend! 

I hope you will visit my fresh new website www.gandjoutdoors and “Like” us on FACEBOOK for packages and specials.

May the future blogs bring some knowledge, some smiles and inspire some dreams!

 
G & J Outdoors – premier guides in the West since 1995. Check us out at gandjoutsoors.com or call 1-530-885-1492

American River Shad and Stripers

I hope everyone is doing well and weathering the poor economy. I've been on the American River the last two days shad and striper fishing and here's a quick run down of how it went.

Wednesday I met a buddy of mine and we got on the water about 11 am and only fished for about 3 hours (not exactly prime time but it was all the time we had). We spent more time fishing for stripers than shad and caught one and lost another. We stopped and fished for shad in two spots for a total of one hour and landed 10 which is pretty good for the middle of the day. For those of you that have not shad fished before, they are about 2 - 5 pounds and put up a great fight on light tackle spinning gear or fly rods.
Yesterday, I had two clients and one had never fly fished before so we split our time between stripers and shad. We used conventional gear with plugs for the stripers and landed two and lost two and saw quite a few more including one that I would guess to be about 20 - 25 pounds.
We landed about 10 or 12 shad and lost at least that many more on flies and conventional gear both. The shad were not biting as well as the day before but we saw hundreds of them. They are pretty thick in there right now. The stripers are just starting and should get better between now and the end of August.
I am running a special until the end of June for half day shad and striper trips on the American River. My normal rate is $325 for four hours of fishing and the special price is $300 and I'm doing five hours instead of four. This includes drinks and all your gear but no lunch. We can fly fish or use conventional gear on these trips. I'm also running a full day special (8 hours with lunch) good on the American or the Yuba and is good until the end of August. If you book two trips at my normal price of $425, you get $75 off your second trip.

Summer Fishing and Fall Hunting Update

I hope everyone is having a good summer and trying to stay out of the smoke the best you can.

Fishing on the Yuba River has finally picked up. Yesterday we had a great day. I guided one person yesterday and we fished grasshoppers all day and landed an18 ½ and a 19 ½ inch fish with the average fish caught being 15 – 16 inches. Last week I was guiding an 11 year old boy and he landed 8 fish and lost 3 or 4 others. Most of the fish were 15 – 17 inches. Not bad for someone that age with limited fly fishing experience. I will be guiding for trout on the Yuba River until the end of August and then I’ll switch to guiding elk, deer, and antelope hunters.

The striper fishing on the American River has been pretty good and we've been getting anywhere from 5 to 15 stripers in a day. The shad fishing on the American is just about over for this year. It was a decent year for shad. We never had any days with huge numbers of shad but we never got skunked either. This year I started doing combination shad and striper trips and they were a lot of fun. If anyone is interested for next year, I will be doing these in May and June again next year. July and August are usually the best months to target the stripers on the American River. While it can be hot outside, so can the fishing. So if you’ve ever wanted to fly fish for striped bass on the American, now’s the time.

I am currently booking my fall hunts for mule deer, elk, antelope, and bighorn sheep in Nevada, and elk and mule deer in California. I am now guiding mule deer hunters on the G3 (Goodale) hunt in California as well as all my normal areas in Nevada. I just got permission to guide Roosevelt elk hunts on 20,000 acres that lies within the boundaries of the new Northwestern California either-sex elk hunt. The Northwestern elk hunt was new last year and there was one hunter on this property and he took a Boone and Crockett bull. He’s the only one to ever hunt this property for elk. If you were one of the lucky people to draw the Northwestern tag and are looking for a guided elk hunt, give me a call.

I hope everyone had some luck in the drawings and hope you all have a good hunting season. I’ve sold all of my Nevada landowner deer, elk, and antelope tags for this year but I still might get some more. I get calls all the time from people looking to sell a tag, so if you’re interested in a landowner tag, let me know what you’re looking for and I might be able to help.

Have a great summer and fall!

Fall Hunting & Fishing

I just returned from a great fall of guiding big game hunters in Nevada and California. Out of 19 hunters, 17 were successful and the two that weren't had to leave after two days of a 5 day hunt. Pictures are now in the photo gallery section of the site from this year. I had two elk hunters in California and both were successful and killed Roosevelt elk that will make the record book. Congratulations Larry and LaDonna. In Nevada both our elk hunters were successful taking 6 point bulls with the biggest one scoring 360 inches. We were seeing 340 to 360 class bulls most days on these hunts and they are something you should definitely apply for. Most days we were seeing 8 to 15 bulls and most of those were branch antlered bulls. This is a great hunt and I do have Nevada landowner elk tags available for the 2008 season but you need to book early because they don't last long.

I guided 4 antelope hunters in Nevada that all bought landowner tags and they were all successful. The antelope were 14 to 15 7/8 inches tall with the best one being 15 1/2 inches tall and grossing 81 2/8. I will have more Nevada landowner antelope tags available for the 2008 season if anyone is interested. These ranches are loaded with antelope and make for a very fun hunt. The question is not if you are going to get one, but how big he will be. These ranches have produced some record book animals in the past.

Our Nevada mule deer hunts were very successful again this year. This makes three years in a row that everyone that stayed more than 2 days on a 5 day hunt was successful. We had 9 out of 11 hunters take deer with several in the 24 to 26 inch range that were very tall. The best buck was a 26 inch 5×5 that was the heaviest horned buck we have ever had a client take. With the new late hunts starting this year and a lot fewer tags in the field, these hunts were great and I expect them to only get better. We've been averaging about 60% draw success in the nonresident guide draw and this is a great opportunity for a nonresident to draw an otherwise very difficult Nevada mule deer tag. I also have Nevada landowner deer tags available for 2008.

I did a 2 1/2 day chukar hunt in Nevada last Friday – Sunday and we got 4 in a 1/2 day of hunting on Friday and limited out on Saturday and Sunday for two hunters. It's a pretty bad chukar year but there are still plenty of birds in pockets if you know where to find them. Chukar season runs through the end of January and I do have openings left.

As soon as we get some snow in Nevada we'll be guiding lion hunts. This is the most exciting hunting I've ever done. There is nothing quite like being 10 feet from a mountain lion and having it open its mouth and hiss at you. Our guided lion hunts are 7 days and the cost is $4000 and it includes your meals and lodging. Your hunting license and lion tag can be purchased over the counter and you are allowed two lions per year. This is a great opportunity to get out and hunt during the winter and have a hunt you will not soon forget.

I'm leaving tomorrow for a week to go over and scout the G3 Goodale mule deer hunt in California. The Goodale hunt is probably the best mule deer hunt we have here in California and I just got Forest Service permits to start guiding deer hunts over there.  Hopefully I will get some good photos of bucks and post them on my site when I return.

Fly fishing on the Yuba River is a little slow right now. I did a trip the other day and we caught 4 trout and lost 7 or 8. We did get a few fish to come up for big dries though and that was nice. The fish were good size with most of them being 14 – 18 inches and full of fight. Fishing should really start to pick up by mid February and we usually have good dry fly fishing and hatches in March and April.

I'll be posting more information when I get back from the G3 hunt.