Out & About

OUTFIELD

Calif. bites bullet

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger recently signed two bills into law impacting shooters and hunters in California:

“Requiring microstamping for semiautomatic firearms sold in the state by 2010. (The yet-to-be-field-proven marking of shell casings could eventually help identify the weapon from which they are fired.).

“Banning lead from center-fire hunting ammunition used in certain hunting districts to prevent more lead-poisoning deaths in endangered California condor that feed on crippled game.

This isn’t the first time Schwarzenegger has flexed his muscle on shooters. In 2004, he approved the California ban on private citizens owning .50-caliber rifles.

OUTFISH

Snake sturgeon gain ground

One day in a hatchery truck has moved the white sturgeon past an obstacle that has been blocking its upstream ambitions in the Snake River for about 150 million years.

The Idaho Fish and Game Department moved 74 of the sturgeon above Shoshone Falls (near Twin Falls) and released them in the river near downtown Idaho Falls.

The fish ranged from 3 to 7 years old and were from 18 inches to 3 feet long. Some should be 5- to 6-feet long and bending angler’s rods within a few years.

OUTSEE

Banff films coming to Bing

Spokane once again will be among the first cities to see the road show of top films from the Banff International Festival of Mountain Films, which is winding up today in Banff, Alberta.

Outside Banff, few audiences get to see more films than they do here in Spokane at the Bing Crosby Theater, where the World Tour will run different films on three days, Nov. 16-18.

Tickets already are on sale through Mountain Gear, (509) 325-9000, or TicketsWest.

OUTLOOK

Best fishing times

Lunar tables from the U.S. Naval Observatory. Be fishing at least one hour before and one hour after peak times. Applies to all time zones.

(* indicates best days.)

Through Nov. 11

Today

8:10 a.m.. 8:30 p.m.

Monday

8:50 a.m.. 9:10 p.m.

Tuesday

9:30 a.m.. 9:50 p.m.

Wednesday

10:10 a.m.. 10:30 p.m.

Thursday

10:50 a.m.. 11:10 p.m.

* Friday

11:35 a.m.. 11:55 p.m.

* Saturday

12:20 p.m.. 12:45 a.m.

Next Sunday

1:10 p.m.. 1:35 a.m.

See the Hunting-Fishing Report every Friday in Sports