“Tackle” Terry Tuma suggests using a sharp hook into the beveled end of the grub, and when utilizing wax worms, try hooking the bait through the tip or the center for better movement.
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The New York State Legislature convened for the first time this year on Jan. 8, beginning a session that will continue through June 12. In the ensuing months, numerous legislative items will be proposed, debated and potentially voted upon. And, another state budget will also be proposed, debated and likely passed.
Along the way items of interest to New York’s sporting community are bound to surface. Coming into this year’s session sportsmen watchdog groups were on high alert. In some cases for sportsmen there is concern, and in others, hope.
Ice fishing finally coming to fruition? Here’s a look at the New York fishing and hunting report from across the state on Jan. 16, 2025.
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The Minnesota DNR held its annual roundtable meetings event last Friday, Jan. 10, in Bloomington. It saw 400-plus attendees, and the agenda improved from recent years, although I would’ve liked to have seen one of the 16 small sessions focus on the state’s most important game animal, the white-tailed deer.
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There’s an adage in outdoor journalism that says never to argue with a biologist – even when you are correct.
I reminded myself of this axiom since the figures arrived for Ohio’s general firearms deer-hunting season and the two-day bonus firearms deer-hunting season. At the time, I should have realized what I was getting myself into when I suggested that – as Sherlock Holmes said: “Something is afoot.”
With the Fond du Lac Band of Chippewa’s reintroduction of elk to northeastern Minnesota a year away, the DNR is continuing to monitor the health of the northwestern herd. Those animals likely will be the transplant subjects.
“The good news is that these animals are really very healthy,” DNR Wildlife Health Group Leader Michelle Carstensen said during a DNR Roundtable presentation before roughly 40 people on Friday, Jan. 10 at the DoubleTree Hotel in Bloomington.
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Anyone who has read these missives from my little corner of the world has probably picked up on my proclivity for participating on the last day of the season.
For instance, I always tried to go trout fishing on Sept. 30, even though most of my favorite streams are open to year-round angling in Michigan, even if the so-called “possession season” on brown trout ended that day.
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