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Rare native brook trout the subject of ongoing study in Ohio

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

Native brook trout have a place in Ohio’s fisheries history, though you’d be hard-pressed to find a brook trout in Ohio today.
According to the ODNR Division of Wildlife, brook trout were historically documented at the edge of their distribution in Ashtabula and Geauga counties. Noted Ohio fisheries researcher Milton Trautman wrote in 1981 that the headwaters of the Chagrin River historically appeared to contain suitable brook trout habitat. But, by 1945 that habitat had been destroyed.

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Ohio Insider: Are young hunters more likely to shoot antlerless deer than adults? Doesn’t seem so

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Are we as Ohio sportsmen and women doing it wrong when it comes to raising the next generation of deer hunters?
I pose this question on the heels of receiving an eye-opening graphic from ODNR Division of Wildlife (DOW) Deer Program Administrator Mike Tonkovich. The graphic is nothing official, mind you, but it came out of a question posed by this reporter to Tonkovich about a month ago.

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Hen survival rates “fairly high” during first two years of Ohio turkey study

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Ohio’s turkey researchers are right in the middle of a research project on the nesting and reproduction of wild turkeys in the state.
The current research being conducted by Ohio State University (OSU), the National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF) and the Division of Wildlife began in 2023 and is scheduled to run for two more years, said Mark Wiley, the Division of Wildlife’s lead turkey biologist. The researchers deployed transmitters on 49 hens in 2023 and outfitted another 102 birds with telemetry equipment in 2024.

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Antlerless permit added to Ohio’s 2024 firearms deer season in attempt to increase doe harvest

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Ohio’s deer management authorities expect the overall harvest to be about 10% higher than it was last year due to simple deer population dynamics.
Last year’s overall harvest checked in right around 213,000 deer, so a 10% increase this year would put Ohio hunters in the neighborhood of a quarter million deer being harvested.
“A lot of that will depend on the weather,” said Mike Tonkovich, the ODNR Division of Wildlife’s deer project administrator.

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For saugeyes and muskies, Piedmont Lake hard to beat for Ohio anglers

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Within the upper echelon of Ohio’s finest saugeye and smallmouth bass lakes is 2,310-acre Piedmont Lake, according to the DNR Division of Wildlife.
Piedmont lies within Ohio’s Wildlife District 4 and spreads across Guernsey, Belmont, and Harrison counties. The lake is stocked every May with 100 saugeye fingerlings per surface acre. When the fingerlings are introduced to their new home, they are between one and three inches long.

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Ohio’s youth seasons ‘good opportunity’ for young hunters

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Last deer season was a banner campaign for young Ohio whitetail hunters.
“Last (youth deer season) was an exceptional year,” said Mike Tonkovich, the ODNR Division of Wildlife’s deer project administrator. “We were up over 31% for just over 10,000 deer killed during that two-day youth season. That was quite the jump because it was 31% higher than the three-year average.”

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Ohio Insider: Good news on the turkey front

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Ohio’s turkey biologists say the state is finally stringing together some good years of wild turkey hatches.
According to information released in early October by the ODNR Division of Wildlife, the state’s wild turkey poult index was slightly above the 10-year average at 2.9 poults per hen in 2024.
“We’ve had four good years in a row, so it’s bringing the average (poults per hen) number up,” said Mark Wiley, the Division of Wildlife’s lead turkey biologist. “So, this is a positive thing after those rough years of 2017, 2018, and 2019.”

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