Dean Bortz Wisconsin Editor THERE IS STILL PLENTY OF DEER HUNTING left in this season. Anyone with deer tags left over from the gun season, or anyone who has $2 (herd control or earn-a-buck units) or $12 (regular units) can still buy antlerless tags in most units that can be used in the muzzleloader season […]
My father, who lived to hunt deer, died a week before the season started in 2004. On opening morning that year I passed up an eight-point buck, primarily because I was more interested in spending time in the woods than I was in killing a deer. Later, I pondered the wisdom of that decision, because
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Traverse City Area Steelhead are hitting in the Boardman and Elk rivers. Salmon have quit spawning, so the steelies have turned to eating more bugs than spawn. A few whitefish have been caught in Grand Traverse Bay in 100 feet of water or more. Firearms deer season should be fair; deer numbers are down. WildFishing
Slate Run, Cedar Run (Lycoming County) – Lack of rain has been a real problem in recent weeks to the extent that area mountain feeder streams are at very low flow. The few anglers targeting trout have been fishing Green Weenies, Little Stonefly Nymphs and small egg patterns. Little Pine, Pine Creeks (Tioga, Lycoming counties)
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Alpena, Mich. – Hunters and landowners in northeast Michigan can help monitor more than 400 deer that previously tested negative for bovine tuberculosis. The deer were captured early this year at the Turtle Lake Club in Hillman and were tested, tagged, and released. The DNR is evaluating a blood test that allows for testing of
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Traverse City, Mich. – The tentative agreement on tribal inland hunting and fishing rights has been approved. U.S. District Judge Richard Enslen signed the agreement on Nov. 5 between the state and federal governments and five American Indian tribes. “We believe that from the state’s and tribe’s points of view, it is a good agreement.
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Harrisburg – A fish disease that was originally identified as a potential threat to trout in commercial hatcheries in Europe, then later caused widespread die-offs of freshwater drum, white bass and yellow perch in the Great Lakes, may soon impact anglers’ ability to catch things like hybrid striped bass and channel catfish all across Pennsylvania.
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St. Paul – Records won’t fall, but deer hunters are on pace for another high harvest. Firearms hunters so far are about 3 percent off last year’s total (183,000 this year compared with 189,000 last year), and the total harvest is down about 4 percent (216,000 this year compared with 226,000 last year). The total
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