Ohio Outdoor News Fishing Report – May 25, 2023 – video
Anglers are continuing to catch crappies in spawning mode and Lake Erie is on fire again – for fishermen.
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First time bow kill turns out to be 214-incher for Ohio hunter
Most deer hunters can remember vivid details about their first bow kill. For Truman Sink, his first bow kill, which happened last fall, will likewise be hard to forget.
Or top. The 19-year-old hunter from Eaton killed a 23-point non-typical buck on Oct. 29, 2022, that scored an almost unbelievable 214 2⁄8 inches.
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Rocky Fork Lake tabbed one of the best in southwest Ohio
“It’s an amazing lake,” said Kipp Brown, a fisheries biologist with the Division of Wildlife in Xenia. “One of the best in the district (southwest Ohio).”
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Ohio’s wild turkey kill is up as spring season nears its end
As turkey season is winding down around Ohio, harvest numbers compared to last year are witnessing a bit of an uptick.
Harvest numbers supplied by the ODNR Division of Wildlife (DOW) through May 14 showed Ohio’s cadre of hunters had killed 14,279 birds. That compares to the 10,734 turkeys harvested during the same time period in 2022. The three-year average for that time frame is 13,353.
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Ohio Insider: Deerassic Park Education Center executive director details expansion into Michigan
The plan going forward is to secure a 50- to 60-acre piece of property in Michigan to build the second Deerassic Park. It won’t be as big as the park in Ohio, which is about 160 acres in size, Meeker said. The goal is to be open a park in Michigan within five years.
Walleyes, yellow perch highlights of Willard Reservoir in Ohio
The upground reservoir in the northwest Ohio city of Willard is unique in a lot of respects.
First, it’s one of a handful of reservoirs in the northwest corner of the state where the ODNR Division of Wildlife stocks pure-strain walleyes. No saugeyes here.
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Changes likely coming for Ohio grouse hunt
During a meeting of the Ohio Wildlife Council in mid-April, the council received a proposal to reduce the ruffed grouse season hunting dates and open counties due to long-term trends in declining grouse numbers.
Proposed grouse season dates are from Friday, Nov. 3 to Sunday, Nov. 26, with a daily limit of one bird. Season dates would be aligned for public and private land. The proposal would allow grouse hunting in Adams, Athens, Belmont, Gallia, Jackson, Lawrence, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Noble, Pike, Ross, Scioto, Vinton, and Washington counties.
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Ohio buck shot on 4-acre property in Auglaize County scores 196 4/8
Rick Place, of Sidney, says there isn’t much of a backstory to the massive buck he killed in the fall of 2022. It was more “right place at the right time.”
That right time was Oct. 28, 2022, when Place killed a 13-point buck that scored 196 4/8 non-typical. Place shot the big buck with no trail cam pictures, and no other sightings on a 4-acre piece of land.
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No fatal injuries during Ohio’ deer season in 2022-2023
The increased usage of rifles shooting straight-walled cartridges has probably made deer hunting safer in Ohio and other states where they are legal.
That’s at least the opinion of Ken Fitz, the ODNR Division of Wildlife’s law enforcement administrator.
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