October 30, 2017

Benezette, Pa. — Delbert Somerville was selected from 10,587 tickets sold in the Keystone Elk Country Alliance elk tag raffle drawing Aug. 20, at the Elk Country Visitor Center here. On Sept. 28, the Bernville man harvested an 8×10 bull that weighed an estimated 850 pounds. The rut was in full swing that morning, and

Roseau, Minn. — Jan Johnson knew there was a big bear around. He just didn’t know how big it was. On Oct. 1, Johnson killed a bear that tipped the scale at 700 pounds near Roseau. He was hunting on his parents’ property. “I knew he was around,” said Johnson, 54. “I’d been after him,

Crooksville, Ohio — Ever hear of a genetic mutation in fish called xanthism? Not many people have, including Cody Gill and Candis Swain, boyfriend and girlfriend who recently caught a largemouth bass with the mutation. Gill and Swain were fishing a pond on AEP ReCreation Land last month when the 12-inch bass hit their lure.

Lansing — The Michigan DNR has confirmed a new state-record fish for cisco (also known as lake herring). The fish was caught Friday, June 9, at 10 a.m. by Michael Lemanski of Florence, Wisc., on Lake Ottawa in Iron County in the western Upper Peninsula. Lemanski was still-fishing with a homemade jig. The fish weighed