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Pam Allen — a ‘mover and shaker’ — earns Ohio Outdoor News’ Person of the Year honor

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

Pam Allen is a mover and a shaker in the fly-fishing world that involves Ohio.
But, Allen stresses that she can’t accomplish anything alone. Allen, of Lewis Center in central Ohio, was recently named this year’s Ohio Outdoor News Person of the Year. The list of organizations and projects in which Allen is involved is lengthy.

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Ohio Insider: Remembering two important figures in the state’s outdoors

Featured, Ohio, Opinion / Mike Moore

A couple of people whom I’ve worked with over the past couple of decades recently passed on and I’d like to talk about them a bit.

We carried the story about Ken Fitz’s passing in our March 14 edition. Fitz was the longtime ODNR Division of Wildlife law enforcement supervisor who passed away Feb. 1 after a long illness. He was just 61. Fitz was a warrior. He battled health difficulties for years but never complained, at least not to me.

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Goal of catching 50-inch muskie is ‘a dream come true’ for Ohio father and son

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

John Welch spent a good portion of the 1970s in Ohio chasing the elusive muskie.
But it wasn’t until his son, Dan Welch, attended Ohio State University and started catching muskies at nearby Alum Creek Reservoir in the early 2000s that the elder Welch really got serious about the sport. This whole experience came to fruition on March 26 this year. On that day, fishing a Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District lake in southeast Ohio, John finally landed a 50-inch muskie, a fish he had only dreamed about.

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Cowan Lake in Ohio’s Clinton County is productive for saugeyes, panfish

Lake Profile, Lake Profile, Ohio / Mike Moore

Cowan Lake, in a state park of the same name outside of Wilmington, is a scenic lake in southwest Ohio and the fishing is fairly good at Cowan.
And, the angling should only get better in the ensuing years, said Kipp Brown, a fisheries biologist in Xenia for the ODNR Division of Wildlife.

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Ohio Outdoor News Fishing Report – April 11, 2025 – video

Fishing, Fishing Reports, Fishing Reports, Ohio, Videos / Mike Moore

The word of the day in Ohio fishing circles is flooded with many of the state’s lakes and reservoirs spilling over their banks. Lake Erie walleye fishing, though, is going gangbusters, including the walleye spawning runs in the tributaries.

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Ohio’s Outdoor Trailblazers: Eric Kraus restores Standing Rush Marsh on Sandusky Bay

Featured, Nature Page & Night Sky, Ohio / Mike Moore

Eric Kraus is the proprietor of Standing Rush Marsh on Sandusky Bay, having bought the nearly 600-acre parcel 10 years ago with the goal of restoring it to its natural wonder.
So far, so good.
“Standing Rush was the culmination of a lot of different stars aligning,” said Kraus.

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Crappie fishing still good on Ohio’s Delaware Lake despite 2023 fish kill

Lake Profile, Lake Profile, Ohio / Mike Moore

Delaware Lake, which sits just north of the city of the same name in central Ohio, is well known for its crappies.
A massive fish kill in the spring of 2023, however, put a major dent in the lake’s crappie population. Two years later, the panfish population is on the rebound somewhat.

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Ohio Insider: Fines don’t fit the crimes in recent walleye scandals from Lake Erie

Featured, Fishing, Fishing, Home Page News, Michigan, National Fishing, Ohio, Opinion, Opinion / Mike Moore

A story came across my desk just as we were wrapping up the last news cycle that I thought was worth more attention.
The story brought me to this conclusion: Greed is the downfall of the world. To give you some background on what brought me to this conclusion, consider two recent Lake Erie walleye poaching cases.

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Ohio Outdoor News Fishing Report – March 28, 2025 – video

Fishing, Fishing Reports, Fishing Reports, Ohio, Videos / Mike Moore

Early season crappie anglers are finding success on inland waters, and jiggers on the reef complex of the Western Basin on Lake Erie are catching walleyes.

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Pam Allen — a ‘mover and shaker’ — earns Ohio Outdoor News’ Person of the Year honor

Ohio Insider: Remembering two important figures in the state’s outdoors

Goal of catching 50-inch muskie is ‘a dream come true’ for Ohio father and son

Cowan Lake in Ohio’s Clinton County is productive for saugeyes, panfish

Ohio Outdoor News Fishing Report – April 11, 2025 – video

Ohio’s Outdoor Trailblazers: Eric Kraus restores Standing Rush Marsh on Sandusky Bay

Crappie fishing still good on Ohio’s Delaware Lake despite 2023 fish kill

Ohio Insider: Fines don’t fit the crimes in recent walleye scandals from Lake Erie

Ohio Outdoor News Fishing Report – March 28, 2025 – video

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