Your Daily Wisconsin Outdoor News Update – Feb. 11, 2019
What you need to know about baiting and feeding bans regarding whitetails in several Wisconsin counties.
February 11, 2019
Thinking outside the hunter recruitment box
Eight crazy (and not-so-crazy) ways to recruit, retain and reactivate Minnesota’s hunters and anglers.
Your Daily Minnesota Outdoor News Update – Feb. 11, 2019
If you’re fishing Lake of the Woods and the Rainy River anytime soon, you’ll want to know these soon-to-be-changing regs.
In the wake of new regs proposals, is it time to restrict captain and mate limits on charters?
With a push to make things more restrictive as far as creel limits in Lake Ontario, should we also be looking at a law or regulation that does not allow captains and/or mates to keep their limits, too? Currently, it’s a gray area. If they have a fishing license, they are entitled to their own limit of fish.
How are whitetails weathering winter?
It will be interesting to hear what our wildlife biologists will have to say about the condition of the deer herd after this winter. And, what impact it could have on the 2019 fall hunting seasons.
Weather woes lead to lowest bear harvest in 11 years
Hopes were high in 2018 with a bear population estimated at 20,000 and a fine start to the November firearms season, but unfavorable weather conditions kept harvest down. Still, there were highlights, including the harvest of a nearly 800-pound bruin, and hopes remain high for next year, too.
Perch anglers, don’t forget new regs cutting daily possession limit in half
Bag goes from 50 to 25 on most waters starting April 1.
Study: In Vermont, snowmobile riders feel negative effects of climate change
A continuing decline in snowmobiling in Vermont will likely have economic consequences.
Deep snow prompts resumption of elk feeding at Wyoming refuge
More than 5,000 elk had gathered on the refuge’s southern area.
