Dan Small Outdoors Radio: Show 2036
On this week’s show, Chinook salmon are hitting close to
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September 5, 2025
Elk shot in Clearfield County, Pa., goes in Boone and Crockett record book
A non-typical elk harvested by David Kammerdiener, of Templeton Pa., in 2022 recently was honored at the Boone and Crockett Club’s 32nd Big Game Awards celebration.
Since 1947, the triennial Big Game Awards program recognizes the biggest heads, horns and antlers from North America accepted into the Boone and Crockett Club’s records from the previous three years. Kammerdiener’s non-typical elk taken in Clearfield County officially scored 445 2/8 points by a panel of judges and is the second largest hunter-taken elk in Pennsylvania and the 14th largest in the Record Book.
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Sunday hunting to be phased in at Pennsylvania state parks
The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources has opened up all 2.2 million acres of its state forests to additional Sunday hunting this season, but the agency is taking a slower approach with its state parks.
On Aug. 26, the agency stated it was taking a “phased approach” toward implementing additional Sunday hunting on state parks.
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Here’s what to know as hunting seasons start in Ohio
Ohio’s hunting seasons for squirrel, dove, Canada geese, teal, and more open in early September. Bowhunters can look forward to the start of white-tailed deer archery season later in the month.
Hunting seasons for squirrel (fox, red, and gray), dove, rail (Virginia and sora), snipe, and gallinule began Monday, Sept. 1. Early Canada goose hunting and early teal (blue-winged and green-winged) hunting run from Saturday, Sept. 6, to Sunday, Sept. 14.
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Fishing license sales still a sharp hook nationally
If Lake Erie’s Western Basin seems to be more crowded with walleye anglers or that Nimisila Reservoir is experiencing bass boat traffic jams, don’t be surprised.
Even your local town or county metroparks fishing hole is being more frequently visited by anglers looking for a good time and possibly tomorrow night’s fish fry dinner. And not just in Ohio, either. The trend toward more people recreating by wetting a line is growing as “the United States has witnessed an unprecedented surge in fishing license sales in 2024 …” reports FishingLicenseUSA,” a clearinghouse of sorts for sport fishing statistics.
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Christine Thomas: Battling to save the saltmarsh sparrow
“The researchers at the marsh have just captured two fledgling saltmarsh sparrows,” Dr. Karen Waldrop, Ducks Unlimited (DU) chief conservation officer shared via the public address system on the bus. “We need you to file quickly, but safely, off the bus and onto the marsh. If we can do this by the time the students finish their measurements, we will get to see the birds before they release them.”
I volunteer as senior vice-president for conservation for DU. This means I chair the DU Conservation Programs Committee (CPC).
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Oak Duke: Bucks that made it through make for highly anticipated 2025 season
He made it through! That was the exclamation… burst, half-out-loud checking over trail cam images back in July. A 10-pointer in velvet, heavy bulbous rack, big rounded points. Wonderful to see… after looking at (yawn) uncountable images of does, fawns, spikes, rabbits…
But then again… “Are you sure it’s him?” Doubt seeps in. Odds are it’s him allright.
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Streams of Thought: Jobs (mostly) well done preparing for the deer season
It was to be a big weekend in mid-August, planned for the annual checking/maintenance of ladder stands and the pruning of excessive vegetative growth around said stands. It’s become a tradition of its own, and if it doesn’t inspire excitement about the upcoming bow season for whitetails, I’m not sure what will.
A year ago, I might’ve argued the tradition be disbanded, following an adventure into the woods during which heavy, 90-degree air encouraged insects of the biting variety (deer flies as well as mosquitoes) to descend en masse. This year’s excursion brought with it no such evils, as visiting high school friend and bowhunting buddy Gregg and I armed ourselves with tools and gear that might be required to make our stands hunt-ready.
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Minnesota deer, bear trackers – and their dogs – at the ready
In a perfect world, every deer or bear hunter would make a clean kill, either with a firearm or a bow. And tracking that animal would be easy as pie.
But that world doesn’t exist. Just ask Lisa Gargulak, co-founder of Bluff Country Deer Recovery, which is part of Minnesota Tracking Dogs, a statewide network of independent trackers who help hunters with deer and bear recoveries.
“As hard as hunters try, as much work as they put in with shooting, errant shots happen for a variety of reasons,” Gargulak said. “No one wants it to happen, but that’s why we’re here if it does.”
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