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August 5, 2025

Limekiln Lake: Targeting splake in an Adirondack campground pond

Campground lakes can be tricky in the Adirondacks, or anywhere for that matter. They certainly see their fair share of fishing pressure. But when the main species in a lake proves a little more challenging, then the fishery often becomes a destination all its own.
That could be the case with Limekiln Lake, a body of water that is mostly in Hamilton County, with the Herkimer County line running through its western end. And that main fish species is splake – the lake trout/brook trout hybrid that challenges anglers.

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New York team first repeat winner in 15 years of Lake Erie walleye event

However you word it, it was the second straight victory for the Knee Deep team led by Don Skellie, of Fredonia. Brothers Hunter and Colby O’Stricker, of Great Valley, were also back on the team and Aaron Buck, of Frewsburg, rounded out the four-person squad as they proceeded to make Shootout history when they weighed in 36.

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Dean Bortz: Wisconsin’s migratory bird hunters in for a good hunting season

Wisconsin’s waterfowl, woodcock and mourning dove hunters can thank the DNR’s Taylor Finger for putting together a fall hunting forecast for their favorite species.
Finger is the DNR’s game bird specialist and is heavily involved in the spring waterfowl surveys that are relied upon to paint a picture each year of our waterfowl landscape. Finger said those surveys indicate stable numbers and habitat conditions for our migratory bird species.

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