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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2021
DEER
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A white catfi sh.
CATFISH
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There are fast food
chains you won’t fi nd any-
where else that sell catfi sh
by the boatload.
I’ve eaten fried catfi sh
purchased at convenience
stores and gas stations
when fi shing out in the
sticks on numerous occa-
sions that wasn’t half bad.
Usually it’s been
channel catfi sh, but a
couple of times, it has
been bullheads, fried and
battered so evenly that it
all tastes the same.
Though I still won’t
go out of my way to catch
bullheads, I’ve come to
respect them a lot more
when in their native
range, and if fresh salt-
water fi sh isn’t available,
and the bullheads are
coming from clean water,
I’m more than willing to
chow down.
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The lack of spring rains
and a very hot and dry
summer have created very
poor conditions across the
landscape. Unless conditions
change, early season hunters
will want to focus on areas of
good forage and water.
Public lands hunters in
the Fossil unit have histor-
ically had better success in
the Wheeler burn, but deer
numbers and success rates
in that area have decreased
the last few years. Fossil unit
hunters might look to other
areas for better deer hunting
this fall. Public land hunters
can also hunt the Heppner
Regulated Hunt Area in the
Heppner unit.
The Columbia Basin is
mostly all private land so
hunters will need to secure
access or hunt on some of the
limited private land where
ODFW has access agreements
with the private landowners to
allow public hunting access,
such as the Open Fields access
areas in the Columbia Basin
unit.
Starkey, Catherine
Creek, E. Mt. Emily units
Luke Ovgard/Contributed Photo
A spotted bullhead catfi sh.
Luke Ovgard/Contributed Photo
A black bullhead catfi sh.
Deer populations remain
below management objec-
tives. Catherine Creek buck
ratios have been holding
steady and above management
objective for several years
and hunters continue to have
good success. However, due
to lower fawn survival last
winter, don’t expect to see as
many yearlings in the harvest
this year. Starkey unit buck
ratios are below management
objectives and have been for
several years; fawn survival
over winter was average. East
Mount Emily buck numbers
are stable and above manage-
ment objectives.
Matt Keenan, district wild-
life biologist at ODFW’s La
Grande offi ce, said hunting
conditions should be better
in Catherine Creek than in
Starkey, as the former unit has
higher buck ratios.
But he doesn’t expect any
signifi cant diff erence in con-
ditions this year compared
with 2020 in either unit.
“Overall it’s looking like a
pretty average year in Union
County for deer hunting,”
Keenan said.
White-tailed deer num-
bers remain stable across the
county. The Grande Ronde
muzzleloader hunt is a great
opportunity for hunters to
harvest an animal.
Wenaha, Sled Springs,
Chesnimnus, Snake
River, Minam, Imnaha
units
While mule deer popula-
tions are still low, white-tailed
deer have had better fawn
survival and buck season is
expected to be fair in all units.
Deer populations are below
management objective in all
units.
Walla Walla, Mt. Emily,
Ukiah, eastern portion
of Heppner, northern
Columbia Basin units
Mule deer survival rates
were good considering the
long winter. However, mule
deer numbers are still below
management objectives in
all units, but the buck to
doe ratios are all at or above
objectives.
In the fall of 2019, Umatilla
County experienced a Epi-
zootic Hemorrhagic Disease
(EHD) outbreak in low eleva-
tion areas, but as expected the
area is seeing a large increase
in white-tailed deer which
should help in hunter success.
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