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.
Ohio – Steve Pollick
‘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
Take advantage of some super – and cheap – Ohio trout fishing
ODNR offers sessions for adults and youth.
Tundra swan flocks light up the Ohio sky
Some of the big birds indeed winter in Ohio.
Sight of buffleheads soothes on a cold winter’s night
A waterfowler’s season is never over, even when the trusty, weatherbeaten old shotgun is cleaned and racked and the bags of decoys and other paraphernalia of the trade are stowed in the barn for winter. That is because waterfowlers, duck and goose hunters, never stop watching the sky and sniffing the air, looking, looking, looking. They are, in their own…
Providing habitat for small game vitally important in winter
Author’s clan cleared brush to do just that recently
Lamenting the loss of the bobwhite
Quail numbers hit hard in Ohio. And when we lost those cheerful sweet calls and the sight of coveys skedaddling along brushrows, we lost something special. It would be nice to have them back. The loss has been ours, and many of us do not even realize it.
Tundra swans overhead a sight, sound to behold
They often use parts of northern Ohio as “stopover” sites
Winter bird feeding entertains, educates
Writer enjoys watching birds over the bead on the barrels of his double-barrel shotgun well enough, but also enjoys watching them at his feeding stations every winter day.
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