Extended season, expanded area boosts harvest Albany – Simple math was simply bad news for the bears this season – at least in two regions of New York. Preliminary reports from the DEC show a record bruin kill in the state’s Central-Western bear hunting region, as well as one of the top harvests on record […]
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Season Dates Jan. 29: Duck/brant season closes (Long Island) Jan. 29: Snow goose season reopens (Western Zone) Jan. 29: Canada goose season closes (Eastern Long Island Zone) Jan. 31: Suffolk County special firearms deer season closes (weekdays only) Jan. 31: Varying hare season closes (portions of Southern Zone) Feb. 4: Canada goose season closes (Central Long Island Zone)
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Western New York Lake Ontario and tributaries: Some good reports were coming in from fishermen working the waters of Eighteen Mile Creek below Burt Dam and the Oak Orchard River to the east. Both of those waters have a mix of brown trout and steelhead, with best baits being beads and jigs tipped with wax
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With ice and or snow seriously lacking in many parts of the state, hordes of sportsmen and sportswomen appear to be reflecting on the recent firearms deer hunting season. Phone calls, emails and letters have been flooding into the MON office over the last few weeks from hunters across the state. Some call to share their
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Northern District Highlights Teaching them young (Lewis County) On Sept. 12, ECO John Murphy was contacted by a state trooper concerning a possible deerjacking on Kirch Road in the town of New Bremen. He had received a phone call from a concerned citizen who had heard that “some kids at school” were bragging about shooting
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Stony Brook, N.Y. – Long Island’s third fall turkey hunt wasn’t nearly as successful from a harvest standpoint as the 2009 and 2010 seasons, DEC statistics are showing. DEC wildlife biologist Mike Schiavone said the reported fall turkey kill from Suffolk County “was about half of what it was last year,” when 104 birds were
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Springfield – With late winter totals still to be tallied, it appears as though DNR’s prediction of a “status quo” deer season was right on target, so to speak. sta-tus quo n: 1. the existing state of affairs. The 2011 firearms harvest of 97,760 was just 1,184 fewer than the 2010 total. Muzzleloader hunters, on
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Banquets/Fundraisers Jan. 21: Illinois Wabash Valley WTU Banquet, 5 p.m, Robinson Community Center. For more info call Joe Boyer, 618-592-6300. Jan. 21: Bureau Creek Gobblers, NWTF Banquet, Bureau County Metro Center. For more info call Kurt Freeberg, 815-875-4089. Jan. 21: Lewis & Clark Sportsman NWTF Banquet, Grafton American Legion Hall. For more info call Blake Pazero, 618-466-8292. Jan.
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Springfield – The Alabama Rig, the latest craze in the bass fishing world, must be modified to be used legally in most of Illinois’ waters, according to DNR assistant fisheries chief Dan Stephenson. The rig is more of a device than a lure, and it’s closely related to a saltwater umbrella rig, allowing bass fishermen
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