California Sportsmen Theater
Each year the California Sportsmen Theater, hosted by Sep Hendrickson, gathers the finest guides and local-water experts. Here’s a look at who and what.
Rick Kennedy
Angelo Cuanang
KEN SAURET/LOWRANCE ELECTRONICS will offer a special seminar on sportfishing electronics, talking about new products, fish-catching tips, and answering audience questions about choosing a machine, installation and operation.
STEVE CARSON was inducted into the California Outdoors Hall of Fame, and is ranked in the top 10 in the world for the most different fish species caught on rod and reel. Director of the Penn Fishing University seminar series, Carson is Outdoors Columnist for the Chico Enterprise- Record and Oroville Mercury-Register.
JD RICHEY is a full-time fishing guide, chasing salmon, steelhead, stripers, shad, mackinaw, rainbow trout, sharks and halibut from Northern California to Alaska and back. He operates the online fishing magazine FishWithJD.com and is a staff writer and regular contributor to virtually all the fishing magazines.
RICK KENNEDY is one of the top kokanee anglers, working full-time with his Tight Lines Guide Service. Kennedy is also an expert teacher, giving seminars and doing regular radio interviews.
JARED JOHNSON is an expert fishing Flaming Gorge for kokanee salmon. He owns several tackle companies, including Rocky Mountain Tackle and Fresh Water Basics.
JAY LOPES is a full-time guide who owns Right Hook Sportfishing. Captaining a 26-foot Parker, he chases white sturgeon on San Francisco bay, and has been featured on Fun Fishing TV.
DALE DANEMAN guides Crystal Basin and Lake Pardee, where he specializes in trout and kokanee using deadly trolling techniques with worms and grubs. Daneman has two tourney wins to his credit, and has made several TV appearances.
BILL DIVENS owns Salmon King Lodge in Red Bluff. Divens is a licensed California guide and holds a USCG Captain’s license, guiding the Sacramento and Rogue rivers for king salmon.
MIKE GRAVERT owns Intimidator Sportfishing and has fished California waters for more than two decades. This USCG-licensed captain hunts the Delta for striper, sturgeon and salmon.
KEVIN BROCK is a full-time fishing guide whose experience includes the Smith and other California rivers for steelhead and salmon, as well as Alaska’s Kenai River.
DOUG NEAL has fished throughout Northern California his entire life. Living on the Almanor Peninsula for the last decade, Neal owns Almanor Fishing Adventures and has logged nearly 10,000 hours fishing the lake.
ABE CUANANG is probably the best angler to say just how to improve your chances of success with white sturgeon. An outdoor writer and photographer, Abe has fished from Alaska to Costa Rica, publishing hundreds of articles and photos in most of the major western fishing publications. He’s also completed books on sturgeon and striper fishing.
Doug Neal
Bill Divens
Jay Lopes
J.D. Richey
Kevin Brock
SEP HENDRICKSON created and hosts the theater. Long-time host of the award- winning “California Sportsmen” radio show Saturday from 6-8a on KHTK AM 1140, Sep makes time to practice what he preaches, fishing for trophy-sized trout and salmon, landlocked kokanee and king salmon, and hunting pheasant, chucker, quail, turkey and wild boar. With his wife, Marilyn, Sep owns Sep’s Outdoors, which produces “Ultimate Bass” on KHTK. The couple remain a driving force with the California Inland Fisheries Foundation Inc., and helped popularize ultralight fishing in the West with the tackle company they created, Sep’s Pro Fishing. Last year Sep was inducted into the California Outdoor Hall of Fame. Now “retired,” Sep works even harder...in the outdoors.
Mike Gravert
Steve Carson