Orleans County (N.Y.) Fishing Report – March 18, 2025
Anglers should find fish in the pools or at the dam and also staged around or on gravel spots here.
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March 18, 2025
‘Community grants’ are target of Minnesota House bill’s Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund change
In 2023, the Minnesota Legislature decided to allocate 1.5% from the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund (lottery proceeds) to the DNR to oversee a community grants program for local environment restoration work.
In the upcoming year, approximately $28 million would have gone entirely toward funding the program in 2026. However, an amendment, approved along party lines in the House Ways and Means Committee on March 11, changes where those appropriated ENRTF dollars would go.
Once a bright spot, new report finds ducks now declining along with many other bird species in the U.S.
At least 112 North American bird species have lost more than half their populations in the past 50 years, according to a new report published late last week.
Among the birds showing the steepest declines are Allen’s hummingbirds, Florida scrub jays, golden-cheeked warblers, tricolored blackbirds and yellow-billed magpies. For several decades, waterfowl stood out as a conservation bright spot with duck populations growing nationwide even as many other groups of birds declined in the U.S. But that trend has reversed, the new data shows.
Ice-out channel catfish are biting in Iowa
Channel catfish move close to shore and are eager to bite in many lakes and large reservoirs across Iowa just after the ice is gone. The bite starts sooner in southern Iowa impoundments since they lose ice a week or two before northwest Iowa natural lakes.
After eating light during the winter, channel catfish are prone to feed heavily during early spring, cleaning up small fish that died over the winter.
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Iowa fishing educator earns Brass Bluegill Award from DNR
Bob Harris is the recipient of the 2024 Brass Bluegill award from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources Fish Iowa! program.
Harris started a nonprofit organization in 2020 to promote fishing for Junior and Senior High School students. The Southwest Iowa Fishing Team aims to promote, advance, and sponsor amateur youth fishing for boys and girls in Southwest Iowa and surrounding communities.
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Catfish continue to emerge in Lake Murphysboro from Jackson County, Ill.
It’s rarely among the small group of Illinois lakes boasting about its big flathead catfish, but Lake Murphysboro may soon enjoy a day when catfishermen around the state say, “Let’s try to find a monster in Murphy.”
Local legend of the “Big Muddy Monster” aside, they may be talking about a growing number of growing flatheads in Lake Murphysboro, the 145-acre Jackson County lake that which sits not far from the Big Muddy River and not far from the much larger Kinkaid Lake.
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Illinois’ Outdoor Calendar
A look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Illinois published in the March 21, 2025, edition of Outdoor News.
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Illinois Cuffs & Collars: Citations issued for trying to sell illegal snake, toads in Williamson County
Illinois cuffs and collars are field reports from Conservation Police CPOs. These reports are from the March 21, 2025, edition of Outdoor News.
Illinois Mixed Bag: Fall turkey hunters break harvest record
Hunters in Illinois harvested a record 1,045 turkeys during the 2024-2025 fall archery turkey season. The total compares last year’s harvest of 803 and the five-year average of 763.
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