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July 24, 2026

Bill Hilts, Jr.: The legend of Pennsylvania lure-maker Joe Renosky keeps on ticking

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It was an opportunity to go fishing on Lake Erie with Capt. Mark Mohr of One Mohr Sportfishing. That alone should have been enough incentive. That alone should have been enough incentive.
Toss in that Bud Marsh, a retired charter skipper who had just won the Duel at Dunkirk with his Kra-Mar team was going to be on board, too. So was Buffalo Sabres Alumni tough guy Rob Ray, a close friend of Mohr. The icing on the cake, though, was 82-year-old Joe Renosky of Indiana, Pa. was going to tag along with his son, Steve. We were going to be field testing some Reno Rocker lures to see if they would catch walleyes.

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New York Crossbow Coalition dissolving a year after major crossbow expansion

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Victory has its rewards, but it can sometimes have shortcomings. Citing a drop in membership and participation among current members, the New York Crossbow Coalition’s board of directors recently voted to dissolve the organization. 
For a decade-and-a-half the group, led by the late Rick McDermott and most recently, Roy Dust, campaigned tirelessly for expanded crossbow hunting opportunities in New York and built a membership that was over 1,600 strong.

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Study says Pennsylvania game lands don’t hurt the state’s counties

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State game lands have a huge positive impact on the state’s economy and don’t inhibit private development or shortchange local municipal coffers. That’s the conclusion of a study commissioned by the Pennsylvania Game Commission.
The report from the study, conducted by Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Industrial Economics, Incorporated, was unveiled at the commission’s July 10 quarterly meeting.

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Christine Thomas: Battling pests at the little cabin

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The exterminator was shaking his head before he even left the truck. I knew this was not going to be good news.
This problem started early this year when I began seeing wood chips piled on the floor in front of the sofa in the little cabin. The many issues with the little cabin structure likely started long before it was built, when some of the logs came from other buildings and likely brought their various maladies with them.

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Jeremiah Haas: It’s important to know how nature deals with heat

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This summer has been one of the warmer and muggier summers that we have had in the past couple of years in the Quad Cities area of Illinois and Iowa. While we tend not to get the 100-degree days of yesteryear anymore, high humidity and 90s have been rampant this summer.
While I can seek refuge in the air conditioning as I do my summer chores, our wildlife — particularly deer and turkey — are not as fortunate and must use other techniques to deal with the heat.

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Colleen Foehrenbacher: Building conservationists beyond the classroom

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Over the past few years I’ve listened to dozens of podcasts discussing concerns about the future of hunting, fishing, and shooting sports. Hunters today represent a smaller share of the population than they did a generation ago, and recruitment and retention remain ongoing challenges.
At the same time, we’re seeing efforts in places like Oregon with the “PEACE Act” ballot initiative that could fundamentally reshape the future of hunting and fishing.

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C.B. Bylander: Fly fishing for crappies is a summer treat

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Fishing stories rarely start with “I was reading a John Sanford novel in a lounge chair by the lake.”
But this one does. It does because that’s exactly what I was doing this spring when a pesky bluegill kept interrupting my reading by rising to the surface, slurping some poor bug into its gullet and then returning to the depths. The depths, in this instance, totaled about four feet and were located near the end of my dock.

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