WI Daily Update: Fishing with antique lures
Tim Lesmeister dusted off some of his antique lures this
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October 6, 2023
Losing access: Dealing with a shrinking hunting playing field
Paula and I lost a hunting spot this year, which isn’t unusual these days. Typically it’s a lose one-gain another proposition, and hunting access is a challenge we’ve become accustomed to over the years.
It is an oft-repeated scenario these days: the landowner dies, the family sells the property and we’re no longer allowed to hunt it. In this case it was about 60 acres in New York’s Chemung County – not a big chunk of land but a good one, with plenty of oak and, in the right years, good numbers of deer and turkey, and an occasional bear.
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Early Ohio bow season off to a solid start in ’23
In much the same fashion the presidential vote recorded in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire – the first place in the nation to report such things – means nothing in the grand scheme of such elections, so largely does, too, the initial harvest tally of Ohio’s deer-hunting season.
For the first four days of Ohio’s 2023-24 deer-hunting season – and as of Oct. 3 – 1,807 antlered and 3,281 antlerless deer were tallied for a combined total of 5,088 animals. The corresponding figures for the 2022-23 season were, respectively, 2,270, 3,878, and 6,148. The like statistics for the 2021-22 season much more closely followed those of this year’s initial numbers: 1,710, 3,255, and 4,965, respectively. Note that all numbers are for archery only.
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