‘Gorge Sportsman’: New special section

This is one of nine tales of hunting and fishing told by local residents in the first-ever annual publication from the Hood River News.

As reported by Trisha Walker, Sheirbon, of Odell, says, “My tag we drew, there’s not a lot of public access, so I had to make a choice, whether I was going to pay a trespass fee and hunt on private land, or whether I was going to take rafts and float down the John Day.”

They decided to float down the river because “we finally came to the conclusion we wanted to experience the full hunt,” he said.

“We were bare bones — a tent, a little propane heater and a lot of dried food, and a lot of heavy hunting clothes …”