Season Dates Oct. 15: Trout, landlocked salmon and kokanee season closes (statewide, general regulations) Oct. 15: Adirondack Range early bear season closes Oct. 16: Southern Zone archery deer season opens Oct. 16: Southeastern and Central-Western archery bear season opens Oct. 16: Westchester County deer season (archery only) opens Oct. 16: Northern Zone muzzleloader deer season opens Oct. 16: Adirondack Range […]
Albany — A 10 percent statewide reduction in Deer Management Permits virtually guarantees the Southern Zone deer harvest will decline this season. But DEC officials say the statewide deer kill always indicative of what’s happening in many areas of the state. And many whitetail hunters are, in fact, optimistic heading into the season, which opens
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Springfield — The Illinois Recreational Access Program will begin enrolling landowners later this year, thanks to a $525,250 federal grant to DNR to provide public access to private lands for hunting and fishing. DNR Director Marc Miller said that the program is part of the recently enacted federal farm bill. “We were one of the
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The fishing and hunting report is compiled using reports from conservation officers, hunting guides, and sporting goods stores. South Crab Orchard Lake: A couple of 50-pound plus flatheads were taken from Crab Orchard on trotlines during the past few weeks. The 56-pounder was caught by Les and Dicky Cox, of Marion. Crappie action is good.
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Western New York Lake Erie and tributaries: Bass are still a primary target in the lake. Best action is still 20- to 40-foot depths. Some trout are slowly starting to make their way up some of the tributaries. Casting the mouth and the lower stretches in places like Cattaraugus Creek is producing a few fish.
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I would not have attempted to spend many Saturdays and more than a few Sunday afternoons making a canoe by hand, from local materials, if not for a lunch at a Chinese fusion restaurant in Boston. No one who knows me would ever say, “He’s a Chinese fusion restaurant kind of guy” any more than
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Springfield — One consistent refrain was heard from archery hunters up and down Illinois after opening week of the 2010 deer season. The deer are moving. Were moving. Are moving, again. A cool snap met hunters on the Oct. 1 opener and continued through the first five days. Many hunters apparently “got while the getting
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Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. — The state’s chronic wasting disease plan was adopted by the Natural Resources Board to lead the agency’s disease responses from now to 2025. The plan originally had been presented to the NRB last August, but the board unanimously passed a resolution that held up passage of the plan until a committee
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District 10 — Wautoma area Warden Mike Young, of Shiocton, contacted a boater exceeding the speed limit in a no-wake area and operating at night without lights. The operator was arrested for boating OWI. Warden Jeff Knorr, of Fremont, assisted Winnebago County with a two-boat collision on the Wolf River. It was a near head-on
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