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Jeff Frischkorn

Fishing license sales still a sharp hook nationally

Featured, Fishing, National Fishing, National News, News, Ohio /

If Lake Erie’s Western Basin seems to be more crowded with walleye anglers or that Nimisila Reservoir is experiencing bass boat traffic jams, don’t be surprised.

Even your local town or county metroparks fishing hole is being more frequently visited by anglers looking for a good time and possibly tomorrow night’s fish fry dinner. And not just in Ohio, either. The trend toward more people recreating by wetting a line is growing as “the United States has witnessed an unprecedented surge in fishing license sales in 2024 …” reports FishingLicenseUSA,” a clearinghouse of sorts for sport fishing statistics.

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Jeffrey Frischkorn: White perch, the beauty and/or bane of recreational anglers everywhere

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

Heralded as an attractive anglers’ target from North Carolina to Maine, the native and ubiquitous white perch earns no such honors west of the Atlantic Seaboard. Just the opposite, in fact, including in Ohio.
Its migration originally blocked by Niagara Falls, the white perch bided its time until the Weland Canal was built. Then – just the same way the sea lamprey did – the white perch quickly went from friend to foe. In Lake Erie and in inland impoundments through (likely) accidental releases from bait bucket-armed anglers.

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Jeffrey Frischkorn: Ultra-popular in Europe, but not so much for carp in the United States

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

If ever a poster child for invasive species existed, the barbel-face of the common carp would strike a defining pose on any biological wanted poster. For good reason, at least in the United States. Back in the Old Country, not so much. Just the opposite, in fact it appears.
And we’re talking a pretty wide swath of the Northern Hemisphere from the Sea of Japan and the Pacific Ocean clear to the waters of the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It is a huge swath of the Old World where the carp has long held the title of the best of the rest.

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Jeff Frischkorn: Be mindful of fireworks’ impact on your pets this holiday weekend

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

“Ka-boom!” may find a welcome greeting in many households this three-day July Fourth Holiday weekend, but the joy does not extend to the family pets. 
Particularly if somehow the dog, cat, goat, or pot-belly pig can find a way to escape. And don’t go thinking that a firecracker or a Roman candle is the same as gunfire. They are not. Far from it, with the way each is built and how they react.

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Fish Ohio program marks 50th anniversary

Featured, Fishing, National Fishing, National News, News, Ohio /

The state’s fishing license program has achieved its century mark this year and everyone who participates in the Fish Ohio program will receive a symbolic piece of birthday cake.
In a manner of speaking. For this year, the Fish Ohio pin will feature as its emblem a very good representation of the leaping largemouth bass that appeared on the 1925 Ohio license. That was the first time Ohio adults were required to buy a fishing license.

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Jeffrey Frischkorn: Losing a fishing buddy is never easy, especially when that friend is also a brother

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

As a wise cousin said to me recently: “Before there were friends, there was family.” That’s true whether the family member is Clark Griswold or Cousin Eddie from National Lampoon’s “Vacation” franchise.
Before I had friends, I had Rich as family. My older brother, to be specific. By three years. Much later in our lives, Rich became a combination of each. Pity we didn’t accomplish both sooner. And now, well, Rich is gone. Along with it, is lost a sounding board for things fishing and shooting.

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Ohio’s spring turkey season finishes on a strong note

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

In spite of oft-times unfavorable weather, Ohio’s flock of turkey hunters didn’t chicken out of chalking up another good spring season.
Officially, says the Ohio Division of Wildlife, hunters harvested 16,014 birds during the spring 2025 season which concluded June 1. This statewide turkey kill total represents all turkeys checked from April 19 through June 1.

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Jeff Frischkorn: A day the waves weren’t too ornery on Ohio waters of Lake Erie

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

The winds and the currents were ornery and contrary, nothing unusual for Lake Erie.
Didn’t help matters for long-time fishing friend Bob Ashley of Mentor, Ohio. Bob fishes out of the Mentor Lagoons practically every day the winds and currents don’t become too ornery and contrary. Today they were and they weren’t, a tad conflicted, if you will.

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Jeffrey Frischkorn: Getting bullish over bullheads

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

Nature is loaded with not-quite eureka moments, little items of common things that most of us let simply pass by our view as uninteresting.
That is, of course, until a hint of sorts sets us on a voyage of discovery that reveals just how surprising common can be if we give it half a chance. While many anglers are driven by their interest in Ohio’s glorious and better-known plethora of noble species, I normally spend a portion of April, much of May, and a smidgeon of June chasing lesser fare.

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