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Jeff Frischkorn: Coveting thoughts lead to angling excellence

Featured, Features, Fishing, Home Page News, National Fishing, Ohio /

“Thou shalt not covet …” (The 10th Commandment)
It was an expressed point of view I had long coveted to hear from Grace, our oldest grandchild fisherperson. “Whew, my arms are tired,” said Grace Rathe, 22. “They hurt.”

Grace had just landed a trophy Lake Ontario lake trout, the fish having swam up the Lower Niagara River to where it spirals into a narrow cauldron of angry water aptly named “Devil’s Hole.”

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Concealed carry permit numbers take a dive in Ohio after 2022 change in law

National News, News, Ohio /

A direct hit by a 2022 law change to Ohio’s concealed carry permit (CCW) and training requirement started to sink that battleship that year and finished it off in 2023.
This information is gleaned from a report compiled by the Ohio Attorney General. It is required by state statute and must be submitted to Ohio’s governor and the leaders of the General Assembly.

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Young Ohio angler catches, releases 45-inch northern pike that may have been state record

Featured, Features, Fishing, Home Page News, National Fishing, National News, News, Ohio /

Sometimes dreams and wishes really do come true, and if you don’t believe that, just ask 13-year-old Sam Spataro of Lake County’s Mentor-on-the-Lake in Ohio.
On March 8 while fishing his favorite spot located at the Mentor Lagoons – one of the Great Lakes’ largest natural small-boat harbors that has direct access to Lake Erie – the youthful angler caught a 45-inch northern pike. And then after his (slightly) older brother Luca and an older fishing friend snapped a few photos, Sam did what’s he’s always done with the big fish he catches. He released it back into the water.

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Jeffrey Frischkorn: Devil is in the details in Ohio fracking deal on state land

Featured, Nature Page & Night Sky, Ohio, Opinion /

While the idea of using the fracking/drilling windfall to buy Ohio DNR commissioned officers Cadillac Escalades is a bit much, certainly keeping roughly $60 million out of the paws of salivating politicians will prove daunting.
Such concern is prudent, too, given what’s happening in both Nebraska and Wyoming, which we will soon see. The Ohio money is – basically – a signing bonus resulting from the allowing of horizontal fracking approved during a midnight end run by the Ohio General Assembly to allow such activity on state-owned property.

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Ohio club forced to cancel spring field trials as Avian influenza threatens pen-raised pheasants

Featured, Hunting, News, Ohio /

The majority of the pheasants that hunters set their sights on during the fall in Ohio and other Midwestern states are pen-raised birds simply because the habitat no longer supports wild birds for the most part.
Even in pheasant-rich states on the order of Iowa, Kansas, and South Dakota, the number of wild birds’ ebbs and flows with the vagaries of weather patterns, how much habitat is lost to agricultural production along with access to sportsmen. And in Ohio, the harlequin days of the 1950s and 1960s are a fast-fading memory for a shrinking population of bird hunters.

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Ohio’s 2023-24 deer harvest highest in more than a decade, includes near record buck kill

Featured, Home Page News, Hunting, National Hunting, National News, News, Ohio /

With the Feb. 4 conclusion of Ohio’s extensive deer hunting season, participants enabled the final all-implements tally to enter the record books, achieving a total of 213,928 animals.
This is the second consecutive year that Ohio’s deer kill has surpassed the 200,000-animal mark, and the 12th time overall since 2002. This season’s count was the highest in more than a decade, with the summit being in the 2012-13 season in which 217,018 animals were tallied. Last year’s all-seasons deer kill was 210,977 animals.

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Jeff Frischkorn: That weekend getaway in an RV doesn’t come without headaches

Blogs, Featured, Nature Page & Night Sky, Ohio, Opinion /

Having given up on Rving and RV ownership several years – and three units – ago, I do not miss one iota of the trials and tribulations of said products.
Not that I remain immune from keeping an eye on the industry and the goings-on of the so-called “RV Lifestyle.” And the best source – in my humble opinion – of that station of life is a frequent online blog produced by a full-time RVing couple.

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