March 10, 2014

Madison — Despite testing a record-low number of deer for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in 2013, the DNR has verified a record 350 CWD-positive cases during the annual collection period that ends March 31. The DNR has collected 4,319 deer samples since April 1, 2013, or 9 percent fewer than it sampled during the 2012

Jamesville, N.Y. — Extremely high winds shut Tom Sheridan out on the opening weekend of the Southern Zone firearms deer season. He made up for it on Monday,  however, bagging a 23-point nontypical buck that will rank among the largest taken in New York this past season. The buck has been scored, after deductions, as

Yorkville, Ill. — Bob Taylor caught a pair of 46-inch muskies, which tied him for the largest muskie reported to DNR in 2013. Taylor will be the recipient of the Big Fish award, which is awarded each year by Illini Muskie Alliance to the largest muskie reported to DNR’s voluntary muskie creel survey by a

International Falls, Minn. — A tip-up-caught lake trout, almost a shoo-in to be a new world record for a fish caught through the ice, is in jeopardy of disqualification as conservation officers in Ontario and Minnesota conduct an investigation of the catch made by a Crane Lake resort owner in northern Minnesota. According to the