Ice conditions are OK. Some anglers are using snowmobiles and ATVs, but with caution. Crappies are putting on a good bite. Fish afternoon hours in 12 feet of water off of cribs. Use an ultralight rig, tipped with a crappie minnow. Crappies are maxing out between 12 and 14 inches. Northern pike and walleye action […]
Albany – Some favorable weather conditions have allowed DEC teams to begin the third year of a turkey trapping and banding project designed to determine harvest rates in New York. The banding program, done in cooperation with the Pennsylvania Game Commission, Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Pennsylvania State University, and the National Wild Turkey Federation
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The ability to travel on the ice is deteriorating because of slush and snow. It can be a nightmare getting out and around, so use common sense. Snowmobiles and ATVs can useful if caution is used, but forget about trucks for now. Meanwhile, northern pike action remains terrific. Fish in 16 feet or less in
St. Cloud, Minn. – If Minnesota decides to ban lead shot for small game hunting in the state’s farmland zone, the measure might face opposition from the National Rifle Association, according to Ryan Bronson, a former employee of the Minnesota DNR who now works for the Federal Cartridge Company. The Minnesota-based munitions firm also would
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On Beaver Dam Lake, anglers are catching walleyes after dark on tip-ups. Walleyes also are hitting at night on Fox Lake. Phil & Sons Tackle, (920) 885-6766.
There is plowed vehicle ice road access down to mouth of the Rat River from Kiesow’s. Anglers are catching some perch, and a few bluegills and walleyes. On Lake Poygan, there is a 2-mile road out from the old Duck Inn. Be careful where you go on lake. Ice thickness changes very quickly. Anglers are catching white
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Some lakes remain closed for for the season: – Braidwood Lake: opens March 1. – LaSalle Lake: tentatively set to re-open in mid-March to fishing – Heidecke Lake: tentatively set to re-open about April 1. – Rice Lake: closed Larry’s Fishing Hole (larrysfishinghole.com) – Powerton Lake: Lake is closed to boats until mid-February. Smallmouths are
Fishermen must use caution when traveling on the ice. A truck and a snowmobile went through on Big Muskellunge Lake recently, so be careful out there. There’s also a lot of slush on the lakes, so travel can be difficult even with snowmobiles and ATVs. Fishing has been good, though, with walleye and northern pike
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Duluth, Minn. (AP) – Even as other great lakes appear headed to an all-time low level this month, Lake Superior is holding its own and seems to be recovering from a drought that dropped the lake to alarming levels. Lake Superior’s water level dropped by 2 inches in December, less than the usual 3-inch decline
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