CENTRAL REGION Buckeye Lake (Fairfield, Licking, and Perry counties) – This 2,816-acre reservoir offers excellent warm weather channel catfishing. There is a large population with some fish weighing up to 20 pounds that can be taken throughout the lake using prepared baits or soft crayfish. There is also a growing flathead catfish population that can […]
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By Joe Albert Staff Writer St. Paul – Hunters in the state should kill an average of 650,000 ruffed grouse per year, no matter where grouse are at in their 10-year cycle, according to a draft version of the DNR’s Long-Range Management Plan for Ruffed Grouse in Minnesota. The annual harvest currently is at about
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By Bob Frye Capital Correspondent Trout, muskies, pike, life jackets, junior fishing licenses – the most recent meeting of the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission had it all. Commissioners made final decisions on some topics, prepared to take action on several others, and decided to seek public comment on still others. In regards to trout,
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Staff Reports Washington, D.C. — Unlike college football, there’s no such thing as a rivalry between Ohio and Michigan when it comes to the Great Lakes. Further, the two states’ U.S. senators say regional collaboration is the key to the longterm health of the lakes. The U.S. Senate on July 11 approved the Great Lakes
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By Mark Tuscano Contributing Writer Columbus — The black bear appears to have returned to Ohio to stay, joining a growing list of species such as the bald eagle, osprey, otter, sandhill crane, and snowshoe hare that are finding the state more hospitable now than it has been for a century. Black bears are very
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By Tim Spielman Associate Editor Lansing — There are a few more hoops through which a duck season proposal must yet jump, but it appears Michigan waterfowlers will again this year be granted a 60-day “liberal” season framework. At a recent Mississippi Flyway meeting in Missouri, flyway officials from their respective states recommended the 60-day
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SOUTHERN LP Lake St. Clair Walleye fishing has been good on Lake St. Clair in the middle of lake near the weather buoy. Anglers fishing crawler harnesses and bottom bouncers are catching good numbers of fish. Muskie fishing has been good on the Canadian side of the lake, and smallies are hitting tubes and jigs
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By Tim Spielman Associate Editor Audubon, Minn. – Waterfowl, deer, and small game hunters could see additional hunting opportunities in western Minnesota this year, should proposals be approved – and programs put into place – on two national wildlife refuges, one near Detroit Lakes, the other near Thief River Falls. For the first time in
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