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Jeff Frischkorn

Coast Guard making big changes on Lake Erie with two Ohio stations subject to at least partial closure

For boaters and boating anglers plying Lake Erie between Cleveland to Conneaut, Ohio, better know how to tread water for a good 90 minutes.
That is the maximum length of time the law allows for the U.S. Coast Guard to respond in case of an emergency. And given that the agency intends to moth-ball its seasonal Station Ashtabula Harbor and severely restrict operations at its Station Fairport Harbor, 90 minutes could be optimistic regardless of what Congress has mandated.

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Goldfish are not a new phenomenon on Lake Erie

It has come as a surprise to many people that goldfish – not the cheese-flavored cracker types but the normally aquarium kind – are menacing the Great Lakes watershed.
So much of a startling revelation is this to a score of people that a recent comprehensive story in The New York Times has received national attention, including extensive coverage in various Ohio media venues.

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Ohio hunter says he was harassed in Portage County

A case of possible hunter harassment has drawn the attention of the Portage County Sheriff’s Office and the Ohio Division of Wildlife.
The former because the impacted hunter – Richard Page of Portage County – alleges a female fired a gun while he was hunting deer on his own property during Ohio’s recent week-long firearms deer-hunting. The latter because harassing a hunter is a violation of Ohio law.

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Ohio’s two-day gun season goes well for many hunters

Very good weather on the first – and only – Saturday of Ohio’s recent two-day firearms deer-hunting season delivered a surprisingly good crop of animals.
For the Sunday – or the second day of the two-day season – not so much. In all, the Dec. 16 and Dec. 17 oft-called “bonus gun season” yielded 15,469 deer, nearly identical to the 2022 two-day season take of 15,164 animals.

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Jeffrey Frischkorn: America is a nation of riflemen

I walk past the parked steel gun cabinet more frequently that I prefer – much more frequently, in fact.
Indeed, my movements shadow what was easily the preferred place to pull out a firearm: one of three over-unders, a side-by-side, a quartet of slide-action shotguns, along with a solo semi-auto shotgun. There stands no personal objection to owning, shooting, or using these firearms.

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Jeff Frischkorn: Our angling and hunting lives are but a short glimpse

It was cold. More than enough cold, in fact, for someone who hadn’t felt the touch of a deer-gun-season winter day in a number of years.
Try three, or maybe it’s been four. Possibly five. I know more than three years because it was November 2021 when I shot my last Ohio whitetail. And that was with my crossbow. Ditto with 2020, and nothing by any means in 2019. So, I guess, it’s been at least several years. That’s terrible, I must admit.

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Ohio’s deer gun hunters were largely successful in 2023

Many deer hunters in Ohio laughed in the face of weather adversity during the statewide firearms season and still did better than just pretty well.

They came within 1.5% of the three-year average for the season and were off only 1,814 animals over the 2022 week-long firearms deer-hunting season. In all, “gun” deer hunters in Ohio shot 70,118 animals Nov. 27 through Dec. 3.

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Harvest declines during the 2023 Ohio fall turkey hunting season

Doing the math clearly shows that the number of turkeys killed and the number of hunters who pursued the birds slumped during Ohio’s recently concluded fall turkey hunting season.
The total number of turkeys killed from Oct. 14 through Nov. 12 was 753 birds. Broken down, this figure was a reported 364 females (adults and juveniles), 368 males (adults and juveniles), plus another 21 birds listed as “unknown.”

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