December 25, 2017

Now is the time to get ready to take advantage of hot first-ice action. First ice is thin ice so you don’t need a power auger on first ice. In fact, you want to make as little noise as possible on thin, clear first ice, but you know it won’t be long when you’ll appreciate

Harrisburg — This isn’t how things are supposed to work, necessarily. In a typical year, Pennsylvania’s statewide four-day bear season represents the largest part in determining whether the harvest is a good one or not. The early seasons in wildlife management units surrounding special regulation areas, the statewide archery season and the extended seasons in

Athens, Ohio — In trolling the 2017 to-date Ohio deer kill figures as of Nov. 28, the tally is ever so slightly ahead of where the comparable 2016 to-date figures were back then on Nov. 29. In each case the end-of-the-week running numbers included the first two days of their respective firearms deer hunting season.

Isle, Minn. — For the past several years, most Lake Mille Lacs walleye discussion and debate at some point veers toward the vaunted 2013 year-class of walleyes, which will, finally, reach full reproductive maturity this spring. The 2013 fish have been viewed as important to the lake’s walleye reproduction ever since fisheries managers determined the