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Jeffrey Frischkorn: Where have all Ohio’s steelhead gone?

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

Blame the COVID-19 pandemic for claiming another victim – Ohio’s steelhead trout program.
Sort of and in the process the outcome has impoverished more than a few steelhead anglers. Myself included. Finding trout to cast a swing fly to on a large river or else channeling one’s energies to securing a pod of spawning trout in a small tributary now requires one becoming a steelhead bloodhound.

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Ohio’s gun hunters see an uptick in opening day kills

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

In spite of the epizootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD) outbreak that plundered the deer herd in several southeast Ohio counties this summer, hunters still found enough whitetails elsewhere to give a glow to the opening day firearms deer-hunting season harvest. 
In fact, call the Dec. 1 shotgun (and rifle) start of Ohio’s seven-day deer-gun season a “very solid” opener compared to recent deer gun seasons, Clint McCoy, the Ohio Division of Wildlife’s deer biologist, told Ohio Outdoor News.

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Jeff Frischkorn: Slowing down, but still a waterfowler at heart

Blogs, Featured, Hunting, National Hunting, Ohio, Opinion /

At heart, really, I’m a waterfowler. And have been for nigh unto some 59 years. 
I don’t own a marsh or belong to an exclusive duck-hunting club. Neither has anyone pole-pushed a boat into a bank of reeds where I could shoot, all to the accompaniment of cheering bravos by guides for my expertise with a fowling shotgun. Alright, I’ll be fully honest here. I’ve been on waterfowl hunting trips where all I had to do was shoot ducks on opening day in an Arkansas flooded forest.

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A scant 521 turkeys killed during the fall hunt in Ohio

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

If Ohio’s turkey hunters thought this year’s fall season drifted off the centerline, they’d have dead-centered the bull’s-eye.
Even so, the results of Ohio’s 2025 fall turkey season still largely fell in line with recent permit and harvest trends, meaning declining, Mark Wiley, the Ohio Division of Wildlife’s lead wild turkey biologist, told Ohio Outdoor News.

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Jeffrey Frischkorn: Ohio’s Put-In-Bay more than parties and pubs for outdoor users

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

When you’re done cleaning a limit of Lake Erie walleyes, when you feel stuffed and can’t handle another slice of pizza, and are tired of the Put-in-Bay pub scene, there’s another possibility.
Take a walk on the wild side with a stroll at one of Put-in-Bay Township Park District’s 33 units, most of which are open to the public. A number of them having unimproved trails, too. It is one of those “I didn’t know that” enlightenments to include that not all of the properties have a toehold strictly on South Bass Island.

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Ohio’s 2025 turkey poult index a tick below average

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

Before you have adult gobblers to hunt in Ohio, you must first have baby gobblers being “mothered” by adult hens months before the season.
And the Ohio Division of Wildlife built a long time ago an annual summer survey of wild turkeys. Volunteer contributors are asked to participate during the green days of June and July to provide the agency with the number of hens, adult birds – and especially the number of poults they see and which county township.

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Lake Erie water levels run about normal in 2025

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

Based on data provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ and other agencies, an enterprising soul looking to make an investment might want to consider buying a shop that sells or rebuilds boat propellers.
It’s obvious that since at least 2015, Lake Erie water levels have not been this low. Even so, Lake Erie has not reached any historic average equilibrium, let alone taken a leap into dangerously shallow water.

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Toll of EHD in Ohio’s southeast seen in harvest numbers during early bowhunting

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In spite of above average temperatures across the state and a killer viral-induced disease in several southeast counties, archery deer hunters in Ohio in the early going still performed decently when compared to the 2024-2025 season.
For the archery season’s first week ending Sept. 30, hunters bagged 5,333 deer. That is 1,046 more than were shot during the 2024-2025 season’s first week when 4,287 animals were arrowed.

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Jeffrey Frischkorn: Outdoor memories may get foggy, but they never fully fade

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

The older we get, the more cluttered our mind’s memory box becomes. That trophy buck you shot five years ago was actually taken 10 years ago. And the photo of the six anglers standing along with a 36-fish limit of walleye was really taken in 2018, not 2023.
And so it goes. For us oldsters, mixing up our memory filing is both disappointing and funny.

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