It was Ohio’s 2025 spring wild turkey hunting season by a nose over its just-concluded 2026 season counterpart.
The Ohio Division of Wildlife says the state’s wild turkey hunters bagged 15,887 birds during the spring 2026 season, which concluded on Sunday, May 31. This number includes the 2,058 birds taken during youth-only hunting.
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With three weeks down for Ohio’s South Zone wild turkey hunting season – and two weeks for the five-county Northeast Zone, participants were rounding third and heading for home.
By Ohio Outdoor News’ press time, the final numbers for the entire season were not yet available. As far as additional statistics go, turkey hunters checked in 14,886 birds by May 17 for both zones, says the Ohio DNR’s Division of Wildlife.
Ohio’s spring turkey kill ahead of last year as season nears its end Read More »
“Nay, I’ll have a starling shall be taught to speak nothing but ‘Mortimer,’ and give it to him to keep his anger still in motion.” – Henry IV, Part 1: Act 1 Scene 3.
Leave it to William Shakespeare to weave an intelligent, but nefarious, bird species into a play regarding a 15th century English king. Clearly, Shakespeare had a fondness for the avian kingdom. In all, in fact, Shakespeare threaded some 65 different bird species into his long list of plays.
Jeffrey Frischkorn: Loved in prose, starlings pose a real problem Read More »
The convergence of a great fish and a good idea opened the official Ohio State Record Fish list for another hook-and-line category.
And the individual who put the wheels in motion also happens to love catching the species that made it all happen. Then again, as a hybrid, the new state record is the merger of two species. Credit Jesse Miller, 29, of Middletown, Ohio, for catching an estimated 11- to 12-year-old hybrid crappie on April 1.
First ever hybrid crappie enters Ohio’s record fish list Read More »
Ohio’s hunters enjoyed a shotgun start to the state’s wild turkey hunting season.
That detail applied to both Ohio’s youth – who enjoyed their own season – along with participants in the general season for all but five Northeast Ohio “Snow Belt” counties.
Early season turkey take shows numbers are up in Ohio Read More »
Members of Ohio’s conservation/sportsmen/rod and gun clubs are often viewed by politicians and pro-fish and wildlife management groups as shock troops. Yet, such a view blurs the bottom line for belonging to a club.
Even so, a cadre of individuals aren’t shy about adding how their membership role is still more than a mile wide and certainly more than just a foot deep. And that all-hands-on deck view is more than just a symbiotic relationship, too.
Jeffrey Frischkorn: Local rod, gun clubs are a time-honored tradition Read More »
Hope Taft, Ohio’s First Lady from 1999 to 2007, continues to show that the love of the state’s native plants is a non-partisan issue. The apex being that Hope Taft was the spearpoint in turning the governor’s residence grounds into a showcase of Ohio’s indigenous flora.
Hope Taft: A true botanical trailblazer Read More »
The lady-like baying of Willow stirred half-century-plus-old memories. Fond ones, of course.
Very fond ones, to be exact. Consumed with the thrill of chasing rabbits with an excited hound, nothing stood in the way of pursuing this premier upland game. Even as a start-up hunter some 60 years ago.
Jeffrey Frischkorn: End-of-year rabbit hunt a symphony for the ears Read More »
Perhaps to no one’s great surprise, the number of new concealed carry permits issued by Ohio’s 88 county sheriffs has risen, but by a rather paltry 4.9%.
Certainly, this statistic is anemic when compared to several years since 2016.
Concealed carry permits rise in Ohio, but just slightly Read More »
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