In spite of oft-times unfavorable weather, Ohio’s flock of turkey hunters didn’t chicken out of chalking up another good spring season.
Officially, says the Ohio Division of Wildlife, hunters harvested 16,014 birds during the spring 2025 season which concluded June 1. This statewide turkey kill total represents all turkeys checked from April 19 through June 1.
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The winds and the currents were ornery and contrary, nothing unusual for Lake Erie.
Didn’t help matters for long-time fishing friend Bob Ashley of Mentor, Ohio. Bob fishes out of the Mentor Lagoons practically every day the winds and currents don’t become too ornery and contrary. Today they were and they weren’t, a tad conflicted, if you will.
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Nature is loaded with not-quite eureka moments, little items of common things that most of us let simply pass by our view as uninteresting.
That is, of course, until a hint of sorts sets us on a voyage of discovery that reveals just how surprising common can be if we give it half a chance. While many anglers are driven by their interest in Ohio’s glorious and better-known plethora of noble species, I normally spend a portion of April, much of May, and a smidgeon of June chasing lesser fare.
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For the fourteenth time thus far, Lake Metroparks’ wildlife rehabilitation experts successfully saw to it that another bobcat got a second chance of life in Ohio’s wildlands.
The Lake County-based Lake Metroparks’ Penitentiary Glen Reservation/Kevin P. Clinton Wildlife Center in Kirtland released on May 8 a male bobcat on public land in Jefferson County. This effort was done with the partnership of the Ohio DNR’s Division of Wildlife.
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It rained hard on the Northeast Ohio Zone turkey hunters’ parade opening weekend and continued to dampen the season’s first several days as well.
And the rain was not being kind to the rest of the state’s wild turkey hunting cadre, either. Wild turkey hunters across Ohio have taken 12,451 birds so far during the 2025 spring season, the Ohio Division of Wildlife reported May 5.
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Ohio’s 2025 spring wild turkey hunters who are running and gunning are largely experiencing a repeat performance.
As of April 28, the 2025 spring turkey harvest total “has closely mirrored the harvest over the same period in both 2023 and 2024,” says Mark Wiley, the Ohio Division of Wildlife’s biologist in charge of everything wild turkey for the state.
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You have your assembler and then you have your collector.
The first person is a generalist and the second person is a specialist. Then too, you can keep shaving off layers until such a fine point is reached that the individual becomes an exotic expert in the field. For instance, you can assemble a gun cabinet with various kinds of firearms but that doesn’t make you a collector. You’re an assembler, more or less.
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When the Ohio General Assembly and the Mike DeWine Administration crafted the state’s pro-fracking initiative, the cherry on top was how 30% of all the so-called “bonus money” goes back to the impacted state park or wildlife area.
Such an infusion of cash was earmarked for capital improvements at the specific park or wildlife area. Yet I would bet that folks would not believe that half of the $20 million taken from the Ohio DNR’s Land Royalty Fund would go to Salt Fork State Park’s publicly owned/privately run lodge for “upgrades to the rooms.”
Jeff Frischkorn: Where is the ‘bonus money’ going from state park fracking in Ohio? Read More »
It was Kid’s Day-Plus-Two during Ohio’s youth-only wild turkey hunting season, April 12 and April 13.
With nearly 7,000 youth turkey tags issued, the participants – all of whom were age 17 and under and accompanied by a non-hunting mentor – successfully bagged 1,740 male (gobbler) turkeys. That figure is a very nearly parallel track with the number of birds killed during the 2023 season (1,785 turkeys) and a couple hundred more birds than for the 2022 to 2024 three-year average of 1,571 turkeys.
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