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Sportsmen Since 1968

Mike Moore

Ohio’s fall turkey hunt: A much different ballgame than the spring

Though it’s nowhere near as popular as the spring season, the fall turkey hunt continues to be a part of Ohio’s hunting offerings.
The fall season this year runs from Oct. 14 through Nov. 12, a bit shorter than it’s been historically. The ODNR Division of Wildlife two years ago shortened the season in response to a turkey population downturn. In a typical fall turkey season, Ohio hunters will harvest around 1,000 birds, according to Mark Wiley, a Division of Wildlife bird biologist.

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Ohio Insider: Family finishes years-long adventure by visiting all 75 state parks

A silver lining of the Covid-19 pandemic is that it gave Jerry Tyree and his family a reachable goal of visiting all 75 of Ohio’s state parks.
Jerry, his son Tristan, and wife Rhonda achieved that goal last month when they checked off park No. 75 from their list.
“We started doing this during COVID,” said Tyree, who lives in Delaware County. “Just to get out of the house and get some exercise. We just felt like we were missing out on a lot.”

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Saugeyes, bass fare well at southeast Ohio’s Lake Rupert

Lake Rupert in southeast Ohio is a bit of a hidden gem when it comes to fishing lakes in this part of the state.

The Ohio DNR Division of Wildlife annually stocks saugeyes in Lake Rupert, which amounts to about 65,000 fingerlings per year, says Matt Hangsleben, fish management supervisor for the Division of Wildlife in Athens.

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What should Ohio hunters expect when another bow season opens in late September?

There wasn’t much fanfare about it, but Ohio deer hunters last year set a new buck harvest record in half of the state’s counties.
The news that hunters in 44 of Ohio’s counties set buck harvest records in the 2022-23 season gets us set for the start of a new deer bowhunting season, which opens on Saturday, Sept. 30. The season runs through Feb. 4, 2024 for bowhunters in the Buckeye State. Setting harvest records, though, is cause for some consternation rather than celebration among deer managers.

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Trout Unlimited Teens program truly making a difference in Gallipolis, Ohio

By day, Shannon Mayes is a teacher at Gallia Academy Middle School in Gallipolis, Ohio.
But, after school Mayes is a fly-fishing instructor, mentor, and overall leader of young men and women who practice the art of fly fishing. Mayes is the leader of the Trout Unlimited (TU) Teens program in Gallipolis, which is part of the overall Mad River chapter of Trout Unlimited.
“I started out just wanting to teach some kids how to fly fish and now it’s the biggest TU Teens program in the country,” he said.

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Northeast Ohio’s Findley Lake probably best for channel cats

Not to be confused with the reservoirs of similar name in northwest Ohio, Findley Lake in the northeast is managed for a quality channel catfish fishery.
“It’s pretty much just our basic lake,” said Curt Wagner, fish management supervisor for the ODNR Division of Wildlife in Akron. “It fishes like a big pond, basically your bass, bluegill, catfish situation.”

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