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Jeff Frischkorn

Bucket-list fish to target? Give me big bull bluegills every time!

Featured, Features, Fishing, National Fishing, Ohio /

For two consecutive editions recently, Ohio Outdoor News Editor Mike Moore crafted a “Sounding Board” question for selected readers basically querying them on their bucket list fishing trip destination.
Up swam “muskie” from one reader (been there, done that, I thought), another was to fly fish the Yellowstone River for rainbow trout (done that and been there, also). Another reader opined as to how she would like to go salt-water fishing for halibut (yep, that’s a harvested one, too), while another opined that he wished to fish for Colorado’s native cutthroat trout. (That one was checked-off my bucket list about 25 years ago).

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Streamers and Pennsylvania trout stream comes to life for author

Blogs, Featured, Featured, Features, Fishing, Fishing, National Fishing, Ohio, Opinion, Opinion, Pennsylvania /

A natural trellis arches over this section of Cross Fork Creek, the latticework structurally formed by interlocking tree branches, mostly hemlocks but also white pine, sycamores and a few scrubby maples hardly worth mentioning.
In this case, the leafy awning was sheltering the thread of spring water. And keeping it dark. Or at least aiding in preventing my eyes from adjusting fast enough to make out the rocks and tree roots. I’d prefer more visual definition so I could let my Mickey Finn streamer shoot past and around the obstacles. And trust that the beyond or behind one of these hurdles is a wild brown trout or a native brook trout.

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Suggested name change of Ohio national forest stirs debate on war general Anthony Wayne

Featured, National News, Nature Page & Night Sky, News, Ohio /

A federal effort is underway to scuttle the name of a Revolutionary War hero used to designate the only national forest in Ohio.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service has announced its intent to rename the 244,265-acre Wayne National Forest to the Buckeye National Forest, which is located in 12 southeast and southern Ohio counties. The forest is divided into three administrative districts. It was officially named Wayne National Forest in December 1992 as part of a national reforestation program.

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A Lake Erie Western Basin limit of perch would make Cousin Bitz smile

Featured, Features, Fishing, National Fishing, Ohio /

The creaks, cracks, and groans weren’t coming from the perch charter vessel at all.
Instead, the commotion heard aboard the Tibbels Marina’s boat was originating from those doing the “perch-jerking” off Lake Erie’s Bass Islands. Or so it seemed, given that the 12 (or was it 13?) anglers were all of sufficient age to qualify for AARP membership. Some, almost certainly for quite some time.

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Ohio Division of Wildlife’s online app comes up short on sunrise, sunset tables

Blogs, Featured, Hunting, Ohio, Opinion /

The Ohio DNR Division of Wildlife’s much ballyhooed smart phone app does have a bunch of useful information, which is why both my wife and I have installed it on our cell phones.
We can buy our licenses and tags online, check the status of what we’ve bought (though my state duck stamp, HIP registration, and deer permit are not included. But I digress), scroll through some of the agency’s latest press releases, record a muskie catch, enter a Fish Ohio application, report wildlife sightings, and make a tour of other ODNR agencies.

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National shooting matches at Ohio’s Camp Perry go high-tech

Featured, National News, News, Ohio /

Steve Cooper shuffled his feet across the thick, course field of grass, also looking down and across the massive field of green that helps make up the world’s second-largest outdoor shooting range.
“To think,” said Cooper, “this is the same stuff as when Camp Perry started hosting the National Matches in 1907. That grass is over 100 years old.”

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Walleyes feeding on walleyes? It happens sometimes

Featured, Fishing, Fishing, Home Page News, National Fishing, National News, Nature Page & Night Sky, News, News, Ohio, Pennsylvania /

Cannibalism is a very real deal in the animal world. Grizzly bear boars have no compunction about eating any cubs they might happen to steal away from an overpowered sow.
So, it seems, neither do walleyes. Reports of Lake Erie’s abundant large walleyes devouring their even more profuse smaller relations are trickling in, particularly in Ohio’s far share of the Central Basin. Then again, these same walleyes have cast their glassy stares at their close cousins, the yellow perch.

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Jeff Frischkorn: Feral hog hunting is as basic as it gets

Features, Hunting, National Hunting, Ohio /

It wasn’t so much being an odd question, though it did make my eyebrows furrow.
I was stumped, and not for the first time related to such a thought, either.
“How many wild hogs have you accounted for?” asked my brother, Rich. “Twenty-five,” was my reply.
No, maybe it’s 30. Perhaps more. Maybe less. Nor could I exactly acknowledge the number of years I’ve hunted wild/feral hogs/boars.

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Dogs and algae-laden water don’t mix

Featured, Hunting, National Hunting, News, Ohio /

Exercising bird dog breeds via “water work” is great for keeping or getting a canine in shape for the hunting season.
What the activity should not experience, however, is for a dog to become ill even to death by the activity. And yet both of those possibilities exist should a dog be endangered through the ingestion of what’s commonly called “blue-green” algae.

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