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The regs, scroll down to section (A):
(6) San Luis National Wildlife Refuge.
Type A Area.
San Luis and Blue Goose Units. Location and Access: Approximately 10 miles north of the town of Los Baños. Hunting permits are issued at the Department of Fish and Game's Salt Slough Unit checking station on Wolfsen Road. From Highway 152 in Los Baños, turn north on Highway 165 and proceed 6.5 miles north, turn right onto Wolfsen Road and proceed one mile to the checking station on the
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left side of the road.
Reservations: Available during waterfowl season.
Checking Station: Permits for reservation holders will be issued starting two and one-half hours before shooting time. Reservations must be presented at the checking station by one hour before shooting time. Reservations will expire after this time. Hunters without reservations may register in person at the checking station between 6:00 and 9:00 p.m. the evening before each hunt day for a lottery drawing to be held shortly after 9:00 p.m., to establish the order of issuance of permits to fill vacancies after reservation holders on the morning of the hunt. Each potential hunter including juniors (if accompanied by a responsible adult) must register in person to participate in the lottery. A hunting partner does not have to be present for the registration, nor be a lottery participant. For "free roam" areas, each lottery number may allow entry of up to six persons including the person that was issued the valid lottery number. No more than two may be hunters who have an adult license. In blind areas each lottery number may allow entry of up to the capacity of the available blind. If a person's name appears more than once in the drawing, he will be eliminated from the draw and will not be allowed to hunt on that day. Persons arriving after the 9:00 p.m. lottery registration deadline will be added to the list on a first-come, first-served basis. Persons signing in on the first- come, first-served list must sign in as a party or as an individual. All hunters entering on the same reservation, lottery number, or when signing in as a party on the first-come, first-served list must use the same hunting assignment.
Daily Hunter Capacity: 116 maximum.
Bear Creek Unit (Includes both the West and East Bear Creek Units).
Location and Access: Approximately 15 miles north of the town of Los Baños, on Highway 165. Hunting permits are issued at the Department of Fish and Game's, Salt Slough Unit checking station on Wolfsen Road. From Highway 152 in Los Baños, turn north on Highway 165 and proceed 6.5 miles north, turn right onto Wolfsen Road and proceed one mile to the checking station on the left side of the road.
Reservations: Available during waterfowl season.
Checking Station: Permits for reservation holders will be issued starting two and one-half hours before shooting time. Reservations must be presented at the checking station by one hour before shooting time. Reservations will expire after this time. Hunters without reservations may register in person at the checking station between 6:00 and 9:00 p.m. the evening before each hunt day for a lottery drawing to be held shortly after 9:00 p.m., to establish the order of issuance of permits to fill vacancies after reservation holders on the morning of the hunt. Each potential hunter including juniors (if accompanied by a responsible adult) must register in person to participate in the lottery. A hunting partner does not have to be present for the registration, nor be a lottery participant. For "free roam" areas, each lottery number may allow entry of up to six persons including the person that was issued the valid lottery number. No more than two may be hunters who have an adult license. If a person's name appears more than once in the drawing, he will be eliminated from the draw and will not be allowed to hunt that day. Persons arriving after the 9:00 p.m. lottery registration deadline will be added to the list on a first-come, first-served basis. Persons signing in on the first- come, first-served list must sign in as a party or as an individual. All hunters entering on the same reservation, lottery number, or when signing in as a party, on the first-come, first-served list must use the same hunting assignment.
Daily Hunter Capacity: 36 maximum on the West Unit and 18 maximum on the East Unit.
Freitas Unit, North Entrance.
Location and Access: Approximately 6 miles northeast of the town of Gustine, where Highway 140 crosses the San Joaquin River. Access is by boat only. Hunting permits are issued at the Kesterson Unit checking station. From Gustine proceed east on Highway 140, approximately 4 miles and turn right at the checking station entrance located immediately off Highway 140.
Reservations: Available during waterfowl season.
Checking Station: Permits for reservation holders will be issued starting at 6:00 p.m. the evening before each shoot day, until 3:00 a.m. on the morning of the hunt.
Reservations will expire after this time. Hunters without reservations may register in person at the checking station between 6:00 and 9:00 p.m. the evening before each hunt day for a lottery drawing to be held shortly after 9:00 p.m., to establish the order of issuance of permits to fill vacancies after reservation holders on the morning of the hunt. Each potential hunter including juniors (if accompanied by a responsible adult) must register in person to participate in the lottery. A hunting partner does not have to be present for the registration, nor be a lottery participant. Each lottery number may allow entry of up to the capacity of the boat or a maximum of four including the person that was issued the valid lottery number. If a person's name appears more than once in the drawing, he will be eliminated from the draw and will be banned from hunting for that day. Persons arriving after the 9:00 p.m. lottery registration deadline will be added to the list on a first-come, first-served basis. Persons signing in on the first- come, first-served list must sign in as a party or as
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an individual. All hunters entering on the same reservation, lottery number, or when signing in as a party, on the first-come, first-served list must use the same hunting assignment. Non-reservation hunters will be issued permits, after hunters with reservations between 3:00 a.m. and shooting time. No permits will be issued between shooting time and 11:00 a.m. Permits to fill vacancies will be issued after 11:00 a.m.
Daily Hunter Capacity: 15 boats, with a maximum of 4 hunters per boat
Freitas Unit, South Entrance.
Location and Access: Approximately 13 miles north of the town of Los Baños, where Highway 165 crosses Salt Slough. Access is by boat only. Hunting permits are issued at the Department of Fish and Game's, Salt Slough Unit checking station on Wolfsen Road. From Highway 152 in Los Baños, turn north on Highway 165 and proceed 6.5 miles north, turn right onto Wolfsen Road and proceed one mile to the checking station on the left side of the road.
Reservations: Available during waterfowl season.
Checking Station: Permits for reservation holders will be issued starting at 6:00 p.m. the evening before each shoot day, until 3:00 a.m. on the morning of the hunt. Reservations will expire after this time. Hunters without reservations may register in person at the checking station between 6:00 and 9:00 p.m.
the evening before each hunt day for a lottery drawing to be held shortly after 9:00 p.m., to establish the order of issuance of permits to fill vacancies after reservation holders on the morning of the hunt. Each potential hunter including juniors (if accompanied by a responsible adult) must register in person to participate in the lottery. A hunting partner does not have to be present for the registration, nor be a lottery participant. Each lottery number may allow entry of up to the capacity of the boat or a maximum of four including the person that was issued the valid lottery number. If a person's name appears more than once in the drawing, he will be eliminated from the draw and will not be allowed to hunt that day. Persons arriving after the 9:00 p.m. lottery registration deadline will be added to the list on a first-come, first-served basis. Persons signing in on the first- come, first-served list must sign in as a party or as an individual. All hunters entering on the same reservation, lottery number, or when signing in as a party, on the first-come, first-served list must use the same hunting assignment. Non-reservation hunters will be issued permits, after hunters with reservations between 3:00 a.m. and shooting time. No permits will be issued between shooting time and 11:00 a.m. Permits to fill vacancies will be issued after 11:00 a.m.
Daily Hunter Capacity: 15 boats, with a maximum of 4 persons per boat.
Kesterson Unit.
Location and Access: Approximately 4 miles northeast of the town of Gustine on Highway 140. From Gustine proceed east on Highway 140, approximately 4 miles and turn right at the checking station entrance located immediately off Highway 140.
Reservations: Available during waterfowl season.
Checking Station: Permits for reservation holders will be issued starting two and one-half hours before shooting time. Reservations must be presented at the checking station by one and one-half hours before shooting time. Reservations will expire after this time. Hunters without reservations may register in person at the checking station between 6:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. the evening before each hunt day for a lottery drawing to be held shortly after 9:00 p.m., to establish the order of of permits to fill existing vacancies in the hunter quota after all reservation holders have been processed. Lotteries will be held for Kesterson, China Island, and North Freitas units. Hunters may only sign up for one lottery. Each potential hunter including juniors (if accompanied by a responsible adult) must register in person to participate in the lottery. A hunting partner does not have to be present for the registration, nor be a lottery participant. Each lottery number may allow entry of up to the capacity of the available blinds. If a person's name appears more than once in the drawing, he will be eliminated from the draw and will not be allowed to hunt that day. Persons arriving after the 9:00 p.m. lottery registration deadline will be added to the list on a first-come, first-served basis. Persons signing in on the first- come, first-served list must sign in as a party or as an individual. All hunters entering on the same reservation, lottery number, or when signing in as a party, on the first-come, first-served list must use the same hunting assignment.
Daily Hunter Capacity: 73 maximum in the waterfowl spaced blind area: A free roam pheasant hunting area adjacent to Highway 140 will be available during the first two days of pheasant season, and in the waterfowl blind area on the first Monday of the pheasant season, by permits issued at the Kesterson Unit checking station. In the Gadwall Pond area, morning hunters at blinds numbered 28, 29, 30, and 31must leave their blind and return to the checking station no later than 2:00 p.m. Refilling of blinds 28, 29, 30, and 31will occur as soon as all blinds have been vacated and there are enough people waiting to fill at least three blinds, or at 2:00 p.m. whichever occurs first. No permits will be issued for any of the San Luis National Wildlife Refuge units after 3:00 p.m.
West Bear Creek Unit will not be open to hunting until the 3rd Saturday in November. Freitas Unit, from both north and south entrances, are open to waterfowl hunting without a permit on Mondays, Tuesdays,
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Thursdays, Fridays, and Christmas Day.
For information, phone (209) 826-0463 (DFG) or (209) 826-3508 (FWS).
(A) Area Firearms Restrictions: Shotguns and steel or other nontoxic shot approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service only. A hunter shall not possess more than 25 shot shells while in the field.
(B) Hunt Days: Saturdays, Sundays, and Wednesdays during waterfowl season. Waterfowl hunting is prohibited on the West Bear Creek Unit prior to the third Saturday in November.
(C) Authorized Species: Waterfowl, coots, and moorhens. Hunting for pheasants will be allowed by permit only on designated days and areas at the Kesterson Unit on the first two days of pheasant season only, and at the San Luis Unit free roam area. Pheasant hunting is also allowed within the Kesterson Unit spaced blind area on the first Monday of the pheasant season only. Snipe hunting is allowed only within the San Luis Unit free roam area, and only on waterfowl shoot days when the area is open to hunting by adult license holders.
(D) Camping and Trailers: Not allowed on the San Luis, Blue Goose, and the west Bear Units of the San Luis National Wildlife Refuge.
(E) Bicycles: Allowed.
(F) Reservations: For the Kesterson and Blue Goose units, each reservation assures entry of no more than three persons if three-person blinds are available, or no more than two persons if two-person blinds are available. For the Freitas units (north and south), each reservation assures entry of one boat with up to four persons. All person's entering on the same reservation will receive the same hunt assignment.
(G) Special Restrictions: Hunters in the Kesterson and Blue Goose units must hunt from assigned blinds, except to retrieve downed birds. Hunters in free roam areas are not restricted to blinds. Freitas units are by boat only. Maximum boat speed may not exceed 5 mph. Inboard water thrust and air-thrust boats are prohibited. Construction of permanent blinds is prohibited. Cutting or breaking of woody vegetation is prohibited. All blinds and equipment must be removed following each day's hunt
(H) Hunters may enter or exit only at designated locations. Stopping vehicles between designated parking areas to drop off passengers or hunting equipment is prohibited.
(6) San Luis National Wildlife Refuge.
Type A Area.
San Luis and Blue Goose Units. Location and Access: Approximately 10 miles north of the town of Los Baños. Hunting permits are issued at the Department of Fish and Game's Salt Slough Unit checking station on Wolfsen Road. From Highway 152 in Los Baños, turn north on Highway 165 and proceed 6.5 miles north, turn right onto Wolfsen Road and proceed one mile to the checking station on the
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left side of the road.
Reservations: Available during waterfowl season.
Checking Station: Permits for reservation holders will be issued starting two and one-half hours before shooting time. Reservations must be presented at the checking station by one hour before shooting time. Reservations will expire after this time. Hunters without reservations may register in person at the checking station between 6:00 and 9:00 p.m. the evening before each hunt day for a lottery drawing to be held shortly after 9:00 p.m., to establish the order of issuance of permits to fill vacancies after reservation holders on the morning of the hunt. Each potential hunter including juniors (if accompanied by a responsible adult) must register in person to participate in the lottery. A hunting partner does not have to be present for the registration, nor be a lottery participant. For "free roam" areas, each lottery number may allow entry of up to six persons including the person that was issued the valid lottery number. No more than two may be hunters who have an adult license. In blind areas each lottery number may allow entry of up to the capacity of the available blind. If a person's name appears more than once in the drawing, he will be eliminated from the draw and will not be allowed to hunt on that day. Persons arriving after the 9:00 p.m. lottery registration deadline will be added to the list on a first-come, first-served basis. Persons signing in on the first- come, first-served list must sign in as a party or as an individual. All hunters entering on the same reservation, lottery number, or when signing in as a party on the first-come, first-served list must use the same hunting assignment.
Daily Hunter Capacity: 116 maximum.
Bear Creek Unit (Includes both the West and East Bear Creek Units).
Location and Access: Approximately 15 miles north of the town of Los Baños, on Highway 165. Hunting permits are issued at the Department of Fish and Game's, Salt Slough Unit checking station on Wolfsen Road. From Highway 152 in Los Baños, turn north on Highway 165 and proceed 6.5 miles north, turn right onto Wolfsen Road and proceed one mile to the checking station on the left side of the road.
Reservations: Available during waterfowl season.
Checking Station: Permits for reservation holders will be issued starting two and one-half hours before shooting time. Reservations must be presented at the checking station by one hour before shooting time. Reservations will expire after this time. Hunters without reservations may register in person at the checking station between 6:00 and 9:00 p.m. the evening before each hunt day for a lottery drawing to be held shortly after 9:00 p.m., to establish the order of issuance of permits to fill vacancies after reservation holders on the morning of the hunt. Each potential hunter including juniors (if accompanied by a responsible adult) must register in person to participate in the lottery. A hunting partner does not have to be present for the registration, nor be a lottery participant. For "free roam" areas, each lottery number may allow entry of up to six persons including the person that was issued the valid lottery number. No more than two may be hunters who have an adult license. If a person's name appears more than once in the drawing, he will be eliminated from the draw and will not be allowed to hunt that day. Persons arriving after the 9:00 p.m. lottery registration deadline will be added to the list on a first-come, first-served basis. Persons signing in on the first- come, first-served list must sign in as a party or as an individual. All hunters entering on the same reservation, lottery number, or when signing in as a party, on the first-come, first-served list must use the same hunting assignment.
Daily Hunter Capacity: 36 maximum on the West Unit and 18 maximum on the East Unit.
Freitas Unit, North Entrance.
Location and Access: Approximately 6 miles northeast of the town of Gustine, where Highway 140 crosses the San Joaquin River. Access is by boat only. Hunting permits are issued at the Kesterson Unit checking station. From Gustine proceed east on Highway 140, approximately 4 miles and turn right at the checking station entrance located immediately off Highway 140.
Reservations: Available during waterfowl season.
Checking Station: Permits for reservation holders will be issued starting at 6:00 p.m. the evening before each shoot day, until 3:00 a.m. on the morning of the hunt.
Reservations will expire after this time. Hunters without reservations may register in person at the checking station between 6:00 and 9:00 p.m. the evening before each hunt day for a lottery drawing to be held shortly after 9:00 p.m., to establish the order of issuance of permits to fill vacancies after reservation holders on the morning of the hunt. Each potential hunter including juniors (if accompanied by a responsible adult) must register in person to participate in the lottery. A hunting partner does not have to be present for the registration, nor be a lottery participant. Each lottery number may allow entry of up to the capacity of the boat or a maximum of four including the person that was issued the valid lottery number. If a person's name appears more than once in the drawing, he will be eliminated from the draw and will be banned from hunting for that day. Persons arriving after the 9:00 p.m. lottery registration deadline will be added to the list on a first-come, first-served basis. Persons signing in on the first- come, first-served list must sign in as a party or as
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an individual. All hunters entering on the same reservation, lottery number, or when signing in as a party, on the first-come, first-served list must use the same hunting assignment. Non-reservation hunters will be issued permits, after hunters with reservations between 3:00 a.m. and shooting time. No permits will be issued between shooting time and 11:00 a.m. Permits to fill vacancies will be issued after 11:00 a.m.
Daily Hunter Capacity: 15 boats, with a maximum of 4 hunters per boat
Freitas Unit, South Entrance.
Location and Access: Approximately 13 miles north of the town of Los Baños, where Highway 165 crosses Salt Slough. Access is by boat only. Hunting permits are issued at the Department of Fish and Game's, Salt Slough Unit checking station on Wolfsen Road. From Highway 152 in Los Baños, turn north on Highway 165 and proceed 6.5 miles north, turn right onto Wolfsen Road and proceed one mile to the checking station on the left side of the road.
Reservations: Available during waterfowl season.
Checking Station: Permits for reservation holders will be issued starting at 6:00 p.m. the evening before each shoot day, until 3:00 a.m. on the morning of the hunt. Reservations will expire after this time. Hunters without reservations may register in person at the checking station between 6:00 and 9:00 p.m.
the evening before each hunt day for a lottery drawing to be held shortly after 9:00 p.m., to establish the order of issuance of permits to fill vacancies after reservation holders on the morning of the hunt. Each potential hunter including juniors (if accompanied by a responsible adult) must register in person to participate in the lottery. A hunting partner does not have to be present for the registration, nor be a lottery participant. Each lottery number may allow entry of up to the capacity of the boat or a maximum of four including the person that was issued the valid lottery number. If a person's name appears more than once in the drawing, he will be eliminated from the draw and will not be allowed to hunt that day. Persons arriving after the 9:00 p.m. lottery registration deadline will be added to the list on a first-come, first-served basis. Persons signing in on the first- come, first-served list must sign in as a party or as an individual. All hunters entering on the same reservation, lottery number, or when signing in as a party, on the first-come, first-served list must use the same hunting assignment. Non-reservation hunters will be issued permits, after hunters with reservations between 3:00 a.m. and shooting time. No permits will be issued between shooting time and 11:00 a.m. Permits to fill vacancies will be issued after 11:00 a.m.
Daily Hunter Capacity: 15 boats, with a maximum of 4 persons per boat.
Kesterson Unit.
Location and Access: Approximately 4 miles northeast of the town of Gustine on Highway 140. From Gustine proceed east on Highway 140, approximately 4 miles and turn right at the checking station entrance located immediately off Highway 140.
Reservations: Available during waterfowl season.
Checking Station: Permits for reservation holders will be issued starting two and one-half hours before shooting time. Reservations must be presented at the checking station by one and one-half hours before shooting time. Reservations will expire after this time. Hunters without reservations may register in person at the checking station between 6:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. the evening before each hunt day for a lottery drawing to be held shortly after 9:00 p.m., to establish the order of of permits to fill existing vacancies in the hunter quota after all reservation holders have been processed. Lotteries will be held for Kesterson, China Island, and North Freitas units. Hunters may only sign up for one lottery. Each potential hunter including juniors (if accompanied by a responsible adult) must register in person to participate in the lottery. A hunting partner does not have to be present for the registration, nor be a lottery participant. Each lottery number may allow entry of up to the capacity of the available blinds. If a person's name appears more than once in the drawing, he will be eliminated from the draw and will not be allowed to hunt that day. Persons arriving after the 9:00 p.m. lottery registration deadline will be added to the list on a first-come, first-served basis. Persons signing in on the first- come, first-served list must sign in as a party or as an individual. All hunters entering on the same reservation, lottery number, or when signing in as a party, on the first-come, first-served list must use the same hunting assignment.
Daily Hunter Capacity: 73 maximum in the waterfowl spaced blind area: A free roam pheasant hunting area adjacent to Highway 140 will be available during the first two days of pheasant season, and in the waterfowl blind area on the first Monday of the pheasant season, by permits issued at the Kesterson Unit checking station. In the Gadwall Pond area, morning hunters at blinds numbered 28, 29, 30, and 31must leave their blind and return to the checking station no later than 2:00 p.m. Refilling of blinds 28, 29, 30, and 31will occur as soon as all blinds have been vacated and there are enough people waiting to fill at least three blinds, or at 2:00 p.m. whichever occurs first. No permits will be issued for any of the San Luis National Wildlife Refuge units after 3:00 p.m.
West Bear Creek Unit will not be open to hunting until the 3rd Saturday in November. Freitas Unit, from both north and south entrances, are open to waterfowl hunting without a permit on Mondays, Tuesdays,
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Thursdays, Fridays, and Christmas Day.
For information, phone (209) 826-0463 (DFG) or (209) 826-3508 (FWS).
(A) Area Firearms Restrictions: Shotguns and steel or other nontoxic shot approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service only. A hunter shall not possess more than 25 shot shells while in the field.
(B) Hunt Days: Saturdays, Sundays, and Wednesdays during waterfowl season. Waterfowl hunting is prohibited on the West Bear Creek Unit prior to the third Saturday in November.
(C) Authorized Species: Waterfowl, coots, and moorhens. Hunting for pheasants will be allowed by permit only on designated days and areas at the Kesterson Unit on the first two days of pheasant season only, and at the San Luis Unit free roam area. Pheasant hunting is also allowed within the Kesterson Unit spaced blind area on the first Monday of the pheasant season only. Snipe hunting is allowed only within the San Luis Unit free roam area, and only on waterfowl shoot days when the area is open to hunting by adult license holders.
(D) Camping and Trailers: Not allowed on the San Luis, Blue Goose, and the west Bear Units of the San Luis National Wildlife Refuge.
(E) Bicycles: Allowed.
(F) Reservations: For the Kesterson and Blue Goose units, each reservation assures entry of no more than three persons if three-person blinds are available, or no more than two persons if two-person blinds are available. For the Freitas units (north and south), each reservation assures entry of one boat with up to four persons. All person's entering on the same reservation will receive the same hunt assignment.
(G) Special Restrictions: Hunters in the Kesterson and Blue Goose units must hunt from assigned blinds, except to retrieve downed birds. Hunters in free roam areas are not restricted to blinds. Freitas units are by boat only. Maximum boat speed may not exceed 5 mph. Inboard water thrust and air-thrust boats are prohibited. Construction of permanent blinds is prohibited. Cutting or breaking of woody vegetation is prohibited. All blinds and equipment must be removed following each day's hunt
(H) Hunters may enter or exit only at designated locations. Stopping vehicles between designated parking areas to drop off passengers or hunting equipment is prohibited.
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Not that it matters, you shouldnt need more than 25 shells at Freitas. There arent any ducks there to shoot at.
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:lol3: :lol3:grnheadhuntr said:
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Unless your one of those SKYBLASTERS you shouldn't need more than 25 shells anywere. If you do learn to let the birds work and take good shots only
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False statement. There are birds, you just need to locate them. :thumbsup:grnheadhuntr said:
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are you the same person who lost his buddy out there on Friday...?
I saw this post elsewhere. just curious...
I saw this post elsewhere. just curious...
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yea i heard about that to xwaterfowlerx
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Did anyone hear anything more about the guy that flip his boat out there on Sunday??
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