Lake Erie/Western New York Fishing Report – August 25-September 1, 2023
The overall walleye bite here has been good, but recent winds have fish a bit more scattered.
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August 25, 2023
Twin Cities to host Backcountry Hunters and Anglers’ 2024 National Rendezvous
Montana-based Backcountry Hunters and Anglers announced today that its 2024 North American Rendezvous will take place at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds from April 18-20, 2024. It’ll be the first time that the event will happen east of the Mississippi River and coincides with BHA’s 20th anniversary.
Past rendezvous all have been in the Intermountain West, and the previous three years have been in the group’s home city of Missoula, Mont.
“It doesn’t get any bigger for myself and the rest of the Minnesota board,” said Eli Mansfield, chair of the BHA Minnesota chapter. “This is like the Super Bowl of conservation. We can’t wait to showcase Minnesota as a premier outdoor destination in the country.”
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Wisconsin legislators press DNR policy board appointees on wolves, pollution, sandhill crane hunt
Republican legislators pressed three of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ appointees to the Department of Natural Resources board Wednesday on wolf management, a sandhill crane hunt and PFAS pollution costs ahead of possible confirmation votes.
The state Senate’s GOP-controlled sporting heritage committee didn’t get a lot of hard answers from Sharon Adams, Dylan Jennings or Paul Buhr during a 90-minute hearing, however. The trio revealed little about their personal stances, keeping their answers vague.
Here’s what to pinpoint with scouting leading up to archery deer season
It had been almost a year since I’d been on this property in North Dakota, and my first order of business was checking out a specific bedding area.
It’s actually more of a single bedroom – the tip of an oxbow so small on a narrow river system that the cover is going to hold only a deer or two, but that deer could very well be the biggest buck on the property. I believe the buck I tagged during the 2022 archery season was bedded here before he presented me with a shot coming out to the edge of the standing cornfield.
My buddy Sam Schmid and I were back on the property a few weeks ago as we followed a subtle trail through the canary grass and found a good-sized deer bed.
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The rye factor: a deer herd game-changer
I will never forget March of 2023. Why am I thinking about last winter at the end of August, you ask? Because as long as I live, I will never be able to erase the image of a starving herd of deer, down to skin and bones, browsing in a clear-cut that I had just finished creating. During the past few years, I’ve become fascinated with a land manager’s ability to influence the composition of a deer herd through trigger-finger management and nutrition.
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Michigan DNR takes ‘holistic’ approach to pike, muskie management
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has refined when and where to apply more restrictive pike regulations, and it has improved brood stock for muskellunge stocking, officials recently told the Natural Resources Commission.
DNR biologists Matt Diana and Jan-Michael Hessenauer presented an update on progress with the DNR’s management plans for pike and muskie last month, with a focus on how the plans are leading to more data-driven decisions.
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Michigan’s statewide fishing report for Aug. 25, 2023
Anglers report mixed results; salmon starting to run. A look at the fishing report from across Michigan on Aug. 25, 2023.
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Gator caught in Pennsylvania’s Kiski River doing well in captivity at rescue facility
A four-foot alligator recently captured by kayakers from southwestern Pennsylvania’s Kiskiminetas River is adjusting to new digs in Pittsburgh as part of a long-term plan to eventually send him to a sanctuary down South.
Nathan Lysaght, founder of the non-profit Nate’s Reptile Rescue, is giving the gator, Chomper, a home for the next two or three years, or until he reaches full 6-foot growth, and then he’ll be transferred to Florida or Texas. At Lysaght’s 100-square-foot facility, in South Park Township, Chomper has access to a 150-gallon pool with basking area, which he can use at will.
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Ohio loses a pair of fishing legends in “Bud” Gehring, Elmer Heyob
Within the past month, the angling community lost a couple of well-known Ohio outdoorsmen.
While each were avid and successful deer hunters too, they were both more widely known for their fishing knowledge and skills that they shared with thousands of anglers from Ohio and beyond.
“Bud” Gehring, age 82, passed away on July 30 in Port Clinton as he was about to head out for a day of yellow perch fishing on Lake Erie. Elmer Heyob, age 67, known by many statewide as “Mr. Muskie,” succumbed to cancer while in hospice care on Aug. 8.
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