Metro Area Fishing Report – February 16, 2025 – video
Some consistency from last week, but also some different things to focus on.
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February 16, 2025
Mike Schoonveld: ‘The Fish Thief’ is a must-see for any avid Great Lakes angler
I’m not a film critic or movie reviewer. Few of the great movies (as proclaimed by true motion picture pundits) are on my personal favorites list and few of my personal favorite films ever got rave reviews when they were released.
Take this glowing column about a new film I’ve recently viewed titled “The Fish Thief – A Great Lakes Mystery” with skepticism. I liked it, but I’m not predicting the producers of the movie will walk the red carpet in Hollywood on Oscar night.
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Wisconsin’s Whitetails Unlimited, hunting loses a friend with passing of Darrel Snell
Thirty-four years ago a group of northern Wisconsin deer hunters got together to form a Whitetails Unlimited chapter to support the new group founded in 1982 while also honoring the area’s historic hunting lifestyle.
Before long the Northwestern Wisconsin Chapter of Whitetails Unlimited was established. Among the charter members was a young deer hunter from Spooner, Ed Snell.
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Want to try Pennsylvania’s trout waters on the ice? Here’s how to do it
The snow slanted down hard, pushed ahead by what the weatherman would later say were 48-mph gusts.
If I had been home during such conditions, I’d never open the front door, but this was a long-anticipated trip with good friends, and we weren’t going to hunker down in the cabin – no matter how comfortable it was inside. Windy and frigidly cold, that’s what it was outside, and the lake had 17 inches of clear black ice capping its 45-acre surface.
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How to choose your next knife and how to keep it sharp
My dad used to say that only a dull knife would cut you, but I found out the hard way that that isn’t totally the case when I borrowed my grandpa Eli’s knife and attempted to whittle a stick and quickly sliced the top of my thumb.
Still, a good knife, whether in the butcher block on the counter or in a sheath on your hunting belt, is best used when it is as sharp as John Rambo liked them.
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A doe with a muzzleloader helps thin Ohio’s South Bass Island deer herd
Since I moved off Ohio’s South Bass Island, aka Put-in-Bay, after my retirement in 2011, I have watched as the island’s deer population jumped from a couple of family units to numbers approaching the limit of long-term sustainability.
The deer population has increased to levels that are now testing the tolerance of some of the island’s residents.
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