Outdoor Notes : 1,103-Pound Marlin Is Caught Off Kona Coast

A 1,103-pound Pacific blue marlin was caught off Kona, Hawaii, on June 25, and papers have been filed with the International Gamefish Assn. to have it entered as a world record.

The fish, caught by Kelly Everett of Kailua-Kona, was reeled in on a 30-pound test line.

The men’s record for a 30-pound test line is currently listed as 626 pounds. It was set off Panama in 1983. The all-tackle record is a 1,376-pound fish, taken off Kona in 1982.

Frontiers International Travel is offering a limited number of fishing trips to the Soviet Union this summer.

Intourist, the USSR company for foreign travel, and Rosohotrybolovsoyuz, the all-Russian society of hunters and fishermen, will be basing the rest of the season on the results of the first party, which arrived in Moscow Thursday.

Frontiers International is accepting reservations on a first-come, first-served basis for four departures later this season--July 25, Aug. 1, Aug. 8, and Aug. 15. Each two-week trip should be during the ideal time of the expected run of salmon into the Kolvitsa River, which, according to the Soviets, has never been fished for sport or commercial purposes.

Sen. Alan Cranston is sponsoring two bills which would severely reduce hunting opportunities in California and across the nation.

One resolution would stop trapping and hunting of coyote, fox and other predatory wildlife on public lands. The authority of state wildlife agencies to manage these species on federal land would be stripped if this passes.

The second bill would convert National Forest Lands and Bureau of Land Management land in California to a national park, thus making them off limits to hunters.

Modoc County’s band of threatened California bighorn sheep has a dozen new lambs this summer, according to a special aerial survey by the Department of Fish and Game and the U.S. Forest Service.

Although officials suspect they may not have spotted all the mountain sheep living along eastern portions of the Warner Mountains, the recent survey found 49 of the animals, including 16 rams and 21 ewes and yearlings.

If additional yearlings or adults, believed to be part of the developing band, are still in the area, the herd’s total number may be in the high 50s.

California bighorn sheep were captured in British Columbia and transplanted to Siskiyou County’s Lava Beds National Monument in 1971 to establish a new band inside the 1,100-acre enclosure.

Two Redding men and an Oroville resident have been booked into Shasta County jail on charges they killed three deer near Lassen Park, two of which were does apparently nursing new-born fawns.

Arraignment for suspects Chan Meng Saechao, Vern Choy Saechao and San Fow Saechao is scheduled for July 24 in Redding Municipal Court.

Briefly The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reminds waterfowl hunters and conservationists the price of the Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp, better known as the “Duck Stamp,” will jump from $7.50 to $10.00 this year. All proceeds are used by the Service to add vital wetland habitat for addition to the National Wildlife Refuge System. . . . Arizona’s Mount Graham red squirrel has been listed as an endangered species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.