Total populations were estimated at 34.2 million, down by 12% from last survey, and “total duck estimate in the Traditional Survey Area was the lowest in nearly 20 years.”
DISTRICT 1 Conservation Officer (CO) Jenni Hanson was dispatched to a call of two lost juveniles in the 18,300-acre Sylvania Wilderness. While out hiking, the two Wisconsin teenagers had lost the trail and became stranded
important dates AUG. 28: Reserved waterfowl hunt license application period ends. SEPT. 1: Teal hunting season opens. SEPT. 1: Early Canada goose hunting season begins. SEPT. 7: Bear hunting season opens in the Upper Peninsula.
You might need to work a little harder to catch fish, but they are still there for the taking. Here’s what to do to get ’em.
On Lake Erie, anglers were steadily increasing their yellow perch harvests.
You still can find fish at dusk and dawn, but that first hour or two after dark can be exceptional.
The author has long shared his disdain for free-ranging feral cats, but those whiskered underwater behemoths? He loves them.
Birth rate for such a fish is said to be about one in 10,000 and the chance of it surviving the three or four years it takes to reach 13-plus inches was “nearly incalculable.”
The surprise bite this week is on this lake, where anglers are catching decent numbers of this often-overlooked species.
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