If in the cool of the spring you find yourself looking for a small, quiet spot to wet a line, you could do worse than making a trip to Burr Oak Lake.
The 628-acre reservoir built in 1952 sits in a picturesque setting among the rolling hills of southeastern Ohio. The quiet comes from very little pressure from recreational boaters and anglers alike.
Burr Oak Lake offers one of Ohio’s best bass fisheries Read More »
The state of Wisconsin is the first to officially ask the question that has been on the minds of anglers for the past decade.
The question, asked in a recent survey to Wisconsin’s sporting community, is if forward-facing sonar/livescope should be outlawed in that state ostensibly to prevent the technology from limiting fish populations.
Ohio Insider: If we’re going to ban fishing technology, where does it stop? Read More »
Scott Kovarovics, executive director of the Izaak Walton League of America, has been with the conservation organization for nearly two decades.
Kovarovics, 54, came to the IWLA in 2008 in the position of conservation director, leading public policy and advocacy work. He was named executive director of the organization in 2013. His prior experience before joining Izaak Walton focused on public land management and natural resource issues.
A quick chat with Scott Kovarovics of the Izaak Walton League Read More »
The Cuyahoga River, once the poster child for polluted waterways in the U.S., is no longer prone to catching fire.
Unless, that is, with anglers. The urban Cleveland river, perhaps most famous up until now for being so polluted that it caught fire in the late 1960s, has been cleaned up to the point that it was recently stocked with steelhead for the first time.
Steelhead stocked for first time in Ohio’s Cuyahoga River after cleanup efforts Read More »
Jaylynn Parker’s 101.11-pound blue catfish has officially become the new Ohio state record for the species.
Parker, 15, of New Richmond, caught the blue catfish on April 7 on Twelve Mile Creek, a tributary of the Ohio River. The fish was legally caught on a jug line.
The new record was certified on April 27 by a vote of the Outdoor Writers of Ohio (OWO) members present at the organization’s annual business meeting at Shawnee State Park lodge. Sixteen OWO members voted on the certification of the new record. The vote was 11-5 in favor of certifying Ms. Parker’s catch.
Giant blue catfish becomes an official record in Ohio Read More »
The river walleye spawning runs on the Maumee and Sandusky rivers is mostly finished and the white bass have moved in.
Ohio Outdoor News Fishing Report – April 26, 2024 – video Read More »
If you had visited Tappan Lake in northeast Ohio in late 2007 or 2008, you would have found a saugeye fishery that rivaled any in the state.
Things, however, being cyclical in nature, turned the tides a bit on Tappan. After those heyday years in the early 2000s, saugeyes struggled to take hold.
Tappan Lake offers a cyclical saugeye fishery in Ohio’s Harrison County Read More »
A controversial bill recently surfaced and was quickly defeated in neighboring Kentucky that would have put that state’s natural resources authority into the hands of the department of agriculture.
If this scenario sounds familiar to Ohio’s legion of hunters and anglers, it well should. It wasn’t all that many years ago when there was talk here about folding the ODNR Division of Wildlife into the Ohio Department of Agriculture. The bill was met in Kentucky with the same vigor as the notion was in Ohio: It was a bad idea.
Ohio’s young turkey hunters were largely successful during their special hunt on April 13-14.
Preliminary harvest figures from the ODNR Division of Wildlife showed that Ohio’s young hunters harvested 1,785 birds during the 2024 youth hunt. According to Division of Wildlife biologist Mark Wiley, that total is just a few dozen birds shy of last year’s youth total (1,823).
Ohio youth turkey hunters nearly match last year’s harvest totals Read More »
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