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June 7, 2024

Group-hunting with bows denied by Wisconsin’s Conservation Congress

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Group-hunting has been legal during Wisconsin’s gun deer seasons since the mid-1980s, but four decades later it remains a bridge too far for bowhunters.
Group-hunting – also known as party-hunting or group-bagging – allows members of the same group to shoot and tag/register deer for each other as long as they don’t exceed the group’s total bag limit. Even though group-bagging is technically illegal but commonly accepted in fishing, it’s usually illegal and enforced, or strongly discouraged, in hunting.

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Invasive sea lamprey numbers increasing in Lake Superior

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If anglers are heading to Lake Superior or nearby streams and rivers, they might pull out a fish sporting a circular wound, or there even might be a parasite fish connected to the larger sportfish.
The small fish that resemble mini-eels are called sea lamprey, and they cause the circular wounds on larger gamefish. Sea lampreys invaded the Great Lakes in the 1920s and ’30s via the St. Lawrence Seaway, and they’ve been killing gamefish ever since.

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Jeffrey Frischkorn: From my first fish, a love affair with catching yellow perch has never faded

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My very first fish was a yellow perch, and all I could do was admire it with a child’s awe.
The fish’s body was more gold than yellow or more yellow than gold, if you catch my drift. The fins along the sides and belly had this cream-orangish tint, while a series of black stripes ran down from the back, fading away before they managed to reach its ivory white belly.
Strange in a funny sort of way, that encounter along a channel of Ohio’s Chagrin River happened something on the order of 64 years ago. But I remember nearly every detail the way a hunter cannot forget his first-ever deer.

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Notes off a soiled cuff: Politics now everywhere, including in fish and wildlife management

Fishing, Hunting, Opinion, Pennsylvania /

For a long time many of us thought – naively I suspect – that public policy making for hunting, fishing and wild resource management was nonpartisan. But everything is political, now.
As evidence, the Pennsylvania House Game and Fisheries Committee recently passed three pieces of legislation to expand Sunday hunting, mitigate crop damage by deer and provide representation for farmers on the Game Commission.

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North Dakota Game & Fish offers “Fish Challenge” to state’s anglers

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North Dakota offers an abundance of fishing destinations suitable for both novices and seasoned anglers alike. To foster some friendly competition, the North Dakota Game and Fish Department recently commenced its third annual Fish Challenge, which began May 1 and continues through Aug. 15.
“We know walleyes are popular, but we were hoping to encourage anglers to explore different species and bodies of water to complete the challenges,” said Cayla Bendel, R3 coordinator for the NDG&F.

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Bob Gwizdz: Year-round bass fishing was a long time coming in Michigan

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One of stated objectives of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources is to provide recreational opportunities.
There is no better example of this than the current bass regulations, which allow angers to catch and immediately release ol’ Micropterus year-round, when the “possession season” is closed. The rules allow anglers to enjoy what I believe is the best bass fishing of the year – the pre-spawn, when the bass are easy to find (they’re shallow) and have the feedbag fully engaged – without damaging the resource.

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Commentary: Trees across Pennsylvania streams makes enjoying these waters difficult

Featured, Fishing, National Fishing, Nature Page & Night Sky, Opinion, Pennsylvania /

Large wood additions to stream projects – dropping trees across streams – by various state and quasi-public agencies in Pennsylvania are a problem for many anglers.
I acknowledge that stream health is imperative and that the large wood projects can be beneficial to our streams. But in all the announcements of these projects, there is not one mention of the dangerous situations that can follow them.

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Trout Unlimited stream work continues in Wisconsin’s Driftless Region

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The Trout Unlimited Driftless Area Restoration Effort (TUDARE) celebrates its 20th anniversary this year while continuing its work to improve cold-water resources in western and southwestern Wisconsin.
“We’re trying to turn back the clock, by fixing streams and rivers,” is how Peter Jonas describes this work. Jonas, of Arcadia, is the Driftless Area partnership specialist for Trout Unlimited (TU).
One challenge is contending with historic erosion that has taken place since settlers began farming the region.

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