Metro Area Fishing Report – October 26, 2025 – video
October is winding down and water temps continue to drop. Keep adapting and being versatile and you’ll find success.
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October 26, 2025
Despite so many forsaking it, fall turkey hunting is still a blast
Break the flock, scatter and call – that is the standard practice for most fall turkey hunters in Pennsylvania – the few that remain. Since 1990, the number of participants for fall turkey season has greatly dwindled.
Back then, there were an estimated 234,911 hunters chasing these birds. In 2023, the last year that posted data is available for, that number had fallen to just 66,496.
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Wisconsin 11-year-old shoots ‘buck of lifetime’
Eleven-year-old Levi Weber learned from his father as a wee lad that “the chores need to be done before you can play.”
On Saturday, Oct. 11, during Wisconsin’s youth deer season, the family was busy combining corn and taking care of their 150-head dairy herd, but around 5 p.m. they were able to finish up. That’s when the young Weber and his father, Kyle Weber, hurried to a fence line overlooking a corridor where deer regularly travel on their way from lake to lake in the Dodge County town of Rubicon.
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Illinois waterfowl seasons, zone lines face reset, drawing concern from some hunters
Illinois wildlife managers have shared plans to ditch the fourth waterfowl hunting zone starting next year and return to a three-zone format.
A split season is also in the mix, as is a rearrangement of duck season dates. While DNR credits duck hunters for sharing opinions that led to proposed changes to the 2026-2030 season framework, response from at least one segment of hunters to the changes appears to have the agency backpedaling a bit.
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Steve Griffin: Plenty of warnings exist in the outdoors; is it real risk or an emotional response?
I remember, hunkered down next to the basement laundry tub, cleaning game with my dad after a Saturday morning hunt: a couple of woodcock, a grouse, a cottontail rabbit.
Dad showed me how to clean the birds with knife, nippers and bare hands, and then he washed off those hands and slipped on latex gloves before taking on the rabbit cleaning. Rabbit fever, tularemia, he told me, is a disease that people can catch from bunnies, especially early in the season.
New York DEC’s K9 Unit back to full strength as three K9s, handlers complete training course
In October, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Division of Law Enforcement continued its commitment to the K9 program, as three new K9s and their new ECO handlers completed an intensive 12-week training program at the K9 Academy in Summit, in Schoharie County.
The addition of these K9s brings the statewide K9 Unit back to full strength of 10 K9s, assuring continuation of what has proven to be an invaluable asset for fish and wildlife protection.
Sometimes, a break from the deer-hunting grind is necessary
Things do not always work out like you plan. A lot of times, you envision a particular outcome to an event and it ends up turning out quite differently, sometimes for the better, and sometimes for the worse. A particular week last year was just such a situation for me.
I had the week off to focus solely on deer hunting during the final week of the early archery season.
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