Outdoor Notes : Anaheim Show to Open Saturday

The Anaheim Sports, Vacation & RV Show will begin a nine-day run Saturday at the Anaheim Convention Center.

Featured will be daily travel film showings, freshwater and saltwater fishing clinics, and spin, bait and fly casting demonstrations. Also, booths representing fishing trips and other vacation destinations in 13 states and four Canadian provinces will be staffed.

Hours: Saturdays noon-10 p.m., Sundays noon-7 p.m., weekdays 2-10 p.m.

The National Marine Manufacturers Assn. says 1984 was the industry’s best in 10 years. About 660,000 units were shipped, topping a previous high of 615,000 in 1979. Total retail sales of boats, motors and related gear and services were estimated at $12 billion, a 32% rise over 1983.

A University of Minnesota professor will apply for a state permit today at a Fish and Game Commission meeting in Monterey to capture and implant with small radios 15 California sea otters. Dr. Donald Siniff has done similar sea otter work in both California and Alaska.

An analysis of Siniff’s proposal by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said the project “should benefit the sea otter recovery program.”

Game wardens arrested two San Diego County men recently at the Salton Sea in what is believed to be the largest orangemouth corvina poaching case there yet.

Chen Van Ngo, Escondido, and Minh Van Tran, San Diego, were arrested by wardens Carol Thompson and Mike Colt and later charged with illegally gill netting more than 2,000 pounds of corvina.

The two were booked into Imperial County Jail, El Centro, and later released on $1,000 bail each. They were ordered to appear in El Centro Municipal Court Jan. 14 for a jury trial.

Here’s one that General George S. Patton Jr. left behind:

While DFG volunteer worker Dale Burkam was repairing a quail drinking-station recently in the Mojave Desert near Essex, he found a large shell. Explosives experts from nearby Fort Irwin later identified the round as a 37-millimeter armor-piercing shell similar to the type used when Patton was training tank crews in the Mojave for desert warfare in the early days of World War II.

Sierra Tackle in Montrose, a fishing gear store at the same location since 1928, will close its doors Jan. 13. Ned Gray, owner since 1951, is retiring. Beginning at noon Jan. 14, he will give to representatives of youth groups any fishing equipment remaining after his closeout sale.

Briefly

Bill Dalton, Orange, caught the largest marlin--a 418-pound blue--at the recent Bisbee’s Black and Blue Marlin Tournament in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, which raised $7,500 for the Cabo San Lucas elementary school. . . . The Wyoming Game and Fish Department recently permitted Arizona and Nevada biologists to live-trap 226 pronghorn antelope near Douglas for release to historic ranges in Arizona and Nevada. . . . Ducks Unlimited’s International Waterfowl Symposium will be held in Kansas City Feb. 15-17. . . . National Wildlife magazine says Alaska’s Chilkat River is the largest gathering place in the world for bald eagles, and that winter bird watchers have reported standing in one spot on the river’s shore and seeing 2,000 at one time. . . . Fly fishing author Ron Cordes will present a lake fishing program at the Sierra Pacific Flyfishers’ meeting Jan. 17 at the Nob Hill Banquet Center, Panorama City. . . . The Friends of Newport Bay have scheduled several walking tours of the Upper Newport Bay Ecological Reserve, beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 12.