Time to prep and practice for gun season
Season kicks off Monday after Thanksgiving, Nov. 30.
Ohio – Steve Pollick
A day on the range can pay dividends in the field
Author recently assisted shooters at a sight-in day.
Leafy thoughts on a bowhunting morn
Nature can teach lessons during treestand sit.
Summer project: Ridding little pond of vegetative mess
Author takes back control of his little water hole.
Old, single-shot .22s have many lessons to teach
Author ruminates on the trusted model he carries.
Good old days of perch fishing might not be finished
Anglers reporting limits of “yellow gold” in Erie’s Western Basin.
Pandemic creating new generation of paddlers
Return to roots is cause for celebration.
Old-school drifting and casting in Lake Erie’s Western Basin
Erie’s walleye numbers, something like 116 million, are at or near all-time highs, and the basin’s famous – or infamous – mayfly hatch has not yet begun in earnest.
‘Crick-picking’ a fine way to spend an Ohio afternoon
Author rekindles memories of his youth by fishing small creeks, rivers.
Rare winter algae envelopes author’s little pond
Amur, tilapia ordered to help combat the scourge.
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Bucks hanging onto their antlers in early spring
Produces a ‘what the heck’ moment for the author.
Hunting, fishing license buyers fund the outdoor cause in Ohio
Author suggests buying one is a wise investment in wildlife.
Setting the late-winter dining table for wildlife
Author pleasantly surprised by what he has found at his feeders.
At long last, a longbeard appears on the homestead
Blogger has been patiently waiting for gobbler at his Sandusky County place.
Federal wildlife act worthy of Congressional investment
Ohio would get about $28 million under bill.
Save your deer for the hunt
Be aware of bucks, does crossing the highways, byways of Ohio.
Time to get your deer firearm sighted in
Spend some time on the range before the season.
Encounter with monarch a conservation story
Get your hands dirty. Get involved.
It takes you and me to introduce youth to the outdoors
Blogger shares on-the-water, in-the-woods bonding experience with grandkids.
Berry-picking a rite of passage
Parallels to patience in hunting learned, appreciated by blogger’s grandsons.
Howard Marsh a true testament to wetland conservation
Toledo Metroparks restored 1,000 acres of Lake Erie coastland.
Sturgeon snagged above former Ballville dam is welcome news
If you tear it down they will come, to put a twist on a saying made popular by the Kevin Costner classic baseball film, “Field of Dreams.”
Be tick smart in the Ohio outdoors
Something – a biting insect for sure – had marched down my forearm and punched in a string of tiny bites. I never even noticed the minor “attack” until, overnight, a reddish-purplish blob about two inches long raised up on the skin. It was not sore, painful, or itchy, and I felt no symptoms of distress. So I watched it…
Clearing logjams from ‘Froggy Bottom’ all in a spring day’s work
A water-logged volleyball, a capped but empty old beer bottle, a couple beer and pop caps, assorted Styrofoam, a spent shotgun shell, and “tons” of twigs, sticks, branches, dead grass, heavy limbs and logs, soybean stubble and more – it all ended up in the winter wash that was jamming my little creek this spring. Brushjams, or logjams, are the…
Chance encounter with gobblers serves as a reminder
With opening day for turkeys coming soon, it’s high time to start staking out hunting territory for the spring.
Scourge of the ash borer evident on Froggy Bottom
Author clearing dead ash trees from his homestead
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