Metro Area Fishing Report – June 2, 2024 – video
Touching on the springtime walleye bite – and post-spawn largemouth bass locations and tactics.
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June 2, 2024
New York Reader Stories: A gobbler with 6 minutes to spare
One thing I have learned about turkey hunting in western New York at the ripe old age of 72 is to stay put until the very end of legal hunting hours (noon).
I hunt on my property in Rushford (Allegany County) and for some reason I don’t see a lot of turkeys, and they are notoriously quiet. Being a little slower now but still determined to hunt, I arrived a little late to my property on May 1, opening day of New York’s spring gobbler season.
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Steve McComas: Some detective tips for investigating lake history in Minnesota
In Minnesota, the land of 10,000 lakes, it could be 21,871 lakes if all water bodies over 2.5 acres were included. That’s plenty of potential cases for me to investigate, while still leaving plenty for interested anglers or other users to conduct their own investigations.
Here are some tips for when you’re doing background checks on a lake’s history. I combine old-school sleuthing with updated digital approaches.
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Jeremiah Haas: Technology changing the way fish hatcheries operate, too
I have spent a lot of time over the years talking about the newest technological toys to help while hunting and fishing. Those include ozone machines, thermal scopes, side scan technology and a host of others.
While all of them have changed the way I hunt and fish, each making life easier, probably the most improbable technological advancement I have seen is what has occurred at some Midwest fish hatcheries, including my own.
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27 CWD positives confirmed in northwest Ohio from 2,807 deer tested since fall of 2023
The numbers are in and testing is completed in the chronic wasting disease (CWD) surveillance area in north-central Ohio with a total of 27 deer proving positive since the fall of 2023. That is out of 2,807 deer tested, according to Bob Ford, the ODNR’s wildlife management supervisor in northwest Ohio.
The numbers include two deer taken with special permits prior to the start of the 2023-24 archery season, 24 harvested during the hunting season, and one shot during a post-season targeted removal effort.
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Pennsylvania Game Commission joins forces to repopulate Allegheny woodrats in the wild
The Pennsylvania Game Commission, the Maryland Zoo and the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine’s Wildlife Futures Program are members of the Allegheny Woodrat Working Group that have teamed up to start a Woodrat Captive Breeding Program to rebuild struggling populations of Allegheny woodrats.
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