Steve Pollick, Author at Outdoor News

Solar power project just getting off the ground for Steve Pollick’s pond

Blogs, Nature Page & Night Sky, Ohio, Opinion / Steve Pollick

We intuitively know, and take for granted, that the Sun powers life on Earth through the green plant world, but nothing illustrates that first-hand like a little at-home demonstration of the value of harnessing solar power.
For me that demonstration came when I set up a solar-powered water pump to help aerate my little quarter-acre pond. But first, some background.

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An ode to the bank fishermen among us

Featured, Features, Fishing, Home Page News, National Fishing, Ohio / Steve Pollick

Here’s a salute to bank fishing and the countless anglers who engage in this universal method of our ancient tradition.
It is perhaps the oldest hook-and-line method, primitive nets and traps or natural “poisons” aside.
Bank fishermen have little or no access to boats, and some of them are just plain uncomfortable being on the water. But that makes them no less avid or capable as anglers than folks with $100,000 bass boats or walleye rigs.

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The makings of a new angler, PK Pollick

Featured, Features, Fishing, National Fishing, Ohio / Steve Pollick

The young man was constantly bugging Dad about going fishing, touring the fishing sections of sporting-goods stores, reading fishing magazines, books and on-line articles about fishing.

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Lazy, summertime fishing – it’s hard to beat

Blogs, Fishing, National Fishing, Ohio, Opinion / Steve Pollick

I like to think of it as stealth fishing – tiptoeing quietly into skinny water in my kayak in search of bass and panfish.
Mine is a cruising kayak, a 14-foot Current Designs boat with a drop-rudder, not an angler-specific craft. But no matter. A small tackle bag and an ultralight spinning rod easily fit in the oval cockpit between my legs.

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A look at all we lose, and sometimes find again, in our outdoor pursuits

Featured, Features, Fishing, Fishing, Hunting, Hunting, Minnesota, National Fishing, National Hunting, Nature Page & Night Sky, Ohio / Steve Pollick

The Great Vault of Lost and Found Outdoor Gear must lie in a remote mountain valley somewhere, and if we ever find that spot what a trove it will hold.
I am not talking about the odd pair of wool socks left at a fish camp in northern Canada, or a moth-eaten old sweater missing from the duffel after a cross-country ski trip. I am talking real stuff – say, a spare fly rod inadvertently left by a stream, hiking boots tied and hanging on a mountainside tree, or even, perhaps, that backup hunting rifle you took to elk camp.

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Big news in efforts to control invasive grass carp in Ohio’s Sandusky River

Featured, Fishing, National Fishing, National News, News, Ohio / Steve Pollick

Big things are under way this spring in northwest Ohio’s scenic Sandusky River, as in the search for 30- to 40-pound “big things” known as grass carp.
And that’s not all. The popular walleye and white bass runs now reach 38 miles upstream from Sandusky Bay, all the way to Pioneer Mill Dam in Tiffin, according to Ohio Wildlife District 2. These greatly extended runs have been possible since the demolition in 2018 of the infamous Ballville Dam at Fremont, 22 river miles below Tiffin.

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Big, white pelicans extending range into Western Lake Erie

Blogs, Featured, Nature Page & Night Sky, Ohio, Opinion / Steve Pollick

These whopping big white waterbirds, a familiar sight in the Central Flyway further west, are increasing in numbers here in the Mississippi Flyway, to the point where they should become a regular fixture, especially in the Erie islands-lakeshore region.

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Outdoors folks have opinions on Bigfoot

Ohio, Opinion / Steve Pollick

My brother and I hunted deer in a couple of remote, heavily timbered and brushy valleys in Hocking County for many years, and every time he did a walk through a certain stand of big white pines – “the ones down by the old shack” – his neck hairs stood on end.

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Where oh where has the wild turkey gone in Ohio?

Featured, Features, Hunting, National Hunting, Ohio / Steve Pollick

The last wild turkeys that I “saw” in my creek bottom – via a trailcam photo – was on March 5, 2022. Since then nada, nothing, no birds, despite searching all around my bailiwick for evidence.
For years prior, I had wondered when, or whether, these great gamebirds finally might make their way into my western Sandusky County creek bottom – one of the last areas of Ohio to see their resurgence in a classic wildlife management tale. But it happened about four years ago.

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Steve Pollick

Solar power project just getting off the ground for Steve Pollick’s pond

An ode to the bank fishermen among us

The makings of a new angler, PK Pollick

Lazy, summertime fishing – it’s hard to beat

A look at all we lose, and sometimes find again, in our outdoor pursuits

Big news in efforts to control invasive grass carp in Ohio’s Sandusky River

Big, white pelicans extending range into Western Lake Erie

Outdoors folks have opinions on Bigfoot

Where oh where has the wild turkey gone in Ohio?

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