Let the ice-fishing season commence! Anglers in Central and Northern Ohio are already getting on the ice at various lakes and the hard-water fishing should only get better from here.
Ohio Outdoor News Fishing Report – January 17, 2025 – video Read More »
Reservoir No. 1, which is also known as the Lower Reservoir, covers 31 acres. Reservoir No. 2, or the Upper Reservoir, is 48 acres. Memorial Reservoir, which is the third in the set, is around 90 acres. So, the entire complex offers 169 acres of fishing water.
Inland walleyes, bass are fair in Norwalk reservoirs from Huron County, Ohio Read More »
We have a new feature in Ohio Outdoor News that I’d like to draw to your attention. There’s a new outdoor personality profile that’s in the spot that typically holds the Sounding Board in the print editions.
The Sounding Board isn’t going away, but we’re going to publish those in every other issue. In odd-numbered issues, we’ll publish the outdoor personality profile, highlighting and telling a bit about a person in Ohio who loves the outdoors.
Ohio Insider: A new feature in Ohio Outdoor News Read More »
Shannon Mayes can’t really remember a time when he wasn’t into hunting and fishing.
The Gallipolis, Ohio, native, a middle school teacher by trade, has been hunting and fishing all over the state since he was 9 years old. He also leads a Trout Unlimited Teens (TU Teens) program that takes kids all over the country to hunt and fish.
Ohio’s Trailblazers: For Shannon Mayes, hunting, fishing come full circle Read More »
Steelhead fishing on the Lake Erie tributaries in northeast Ohio has been good through the late fall and early winter.
But, it could be getting better. Right now, Conneaut Creek is fishing the best for steelhead, says Curt Wagner, fish management supervisor for the ODNR Division of Wildlife in northeast Ohio.
Steelhead fishing going fairly strong right now on Ohio’s Lake Erie tributaries Read More »
Teresa Croy, of Ottawa, Ohio, spent the early part of the day on Nov. 2, 2024, throwing all manner of plastics in attempt to catch a fish at the Glandorf Rod and Gun Club in Putnam County.
Any fish would do, she said, but she wasn’t having much luck.
“We had been fishing for crappies for probably and hour or so using plastic lures and we weren’t getting any bites at all,” Croy said.
Simple approach lands angler the new record Ohio white crappie Read More »
With all due respect, many of our inland lakes in Ohio are rather featureless upground reservoirs that were originally built for water supply purposes, not for fishing.
In other words, angling opportunities are simply a bonus in most of these places. Kiser Lake in west-central Ohio was built for industrious purposes in the 1840s to provide power for a gristmill and a sawmill that operated in the area.
Kiser Lake in Champaign County, Ohio, is super productive, best for panfishing Read More »
For the fourth year in a row, there were no fatalities during Ohio’s deer gun week, Dec. 2-8, according to the ODNR Division of Wildlife.
The last time Ohio suffered a fatality during the deer firearms season was in December of 2020, according to Kandy Klosterman, law enforcement executive administrator for the Division of Wildlife.
Ohio firearms season was again safe for hunters Read More »
I am proud to say that you are reading the first issue of our 20th year of publishing Ohio Outdoor News.
God willing, there will be 20 more. And then some. At the end of 2024, we have now published nearly 500 (494) issues of Ohio Outdoor News. I vividly remember publishing the first issue of the publication in 2005.
Ohio Insider: Many to thank after 20 years of publishing Ohio Outdoor News Read More »
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