3rd Annual Banquet "Huge Success!"
Pasco, WA
The CBQF finished its 3rd Annual Pre-Season Banquet on Oct 3rd @ The Holiday Inn Express in Pasco, WA. A total of 103 attended the banquet which fell on the WA State Quail Season opener. 25 new QF members came into the Columbia Basin fold. HUGE THANK YOU goes out to our banquet sponsors, Waddell & Reed, Wholesale Sports & the Lien family. The banquet "KEY" item was won by Tony Martin, the CBQF's own Chicago Cub. Tony had previously bought 10 keys in prior banquets ... LUCKY #11 !!! Thanks to all the Yakima PF guys who came, along with Dale and the guys from Seattle, happy to have ya !
Now, I'm going to completely rub this in a few members faces, and a few NEW members, but I couldn't go to the season opener due to the banquet. So, the second day of the season, was MY opener, and while I didn't shoot well ... 3 of us came out of the weeds tired, dogs exhausted ... and 24 California Valley Quail in the bag, 8 each! Do NOT tell me it wasn't a good hatch season, as we saw over 300 quail in a HONEY Hole! Read this and weeeeeeeeeeep to all my friends who texted me with daily bag updates for the opener.
CBQF Taking on "Toothacre"
HMU - Finley, WA
The CBQF has been looking for a "project site" ... Well folks, we found one! Its currently run by the Army Corp of Engineers, but its 15-20 up the road from some of us, it has a huge population of Valley Quail. What it also has, is a huge population of undergrowth, russian olive, and weeds. We are trying to gather steam on this, by joining forces with Finleys FFA's. More to come, but we got our Dream Job!
PF & QF State Meeting Aug. 1st
Pasco, WA
The state annual PF / QF meeting will take place Aug 1st at the Red Lion, Pasco Airport. I'll throw an update in here when its completed, but topics last year included a state PF/QF sponsors habitat specialist, banquet items, banquet ideas and updated WA State Fish & Game reports. Last years meeting happened in Ellensburg, WA.
