
Ohio’s late muzzleloader season calls for a change in tactics
There is no doubt that by now most of the deer in your hunting area have become quite reclusive after being hunted for a solid week by a barrage of gun hunters.
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There is no doubt that by now most of the deer in your hunting area have become quite reclusive after being hunted for a solid week by a barrage of gun hunters.
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If you are a duck hunter, a kayaker who loves prowling the skinny backwaters of marshlands, or a birder who revels in the sights and sounds of sandhill cranes, trumpeter and tundra swans, American pelicans,

November has become a popular time for anglers to still be out on Lake Erie plying their hobby. In recent years, thousands of anglers have been seeking fame and fortune fishing for “the big one”

Despite Mother Erie’s temper tantrums during October and November, hundreds of big walleye were still weighed in by anglers in the two fall walleye derbies again this year.
Both the Walleye Slam and Walleye

The year of 2025 in the pages of Ohio Outdoor News began and ended with state records in the fishing category.
In between were a lot more stories that made the cut for this

Nearly 10,000 Ohio deer hunters age 17 and under helped fill their family freezers with venison in late November.
During the Nov. 22 and Nov. 23, Ohio youth-only deer firearms hunting season, the state’s

I’m writing this column amidst the traditional gun week for deer in Ohio.
If you will allow, I thought it would be fun to look back on the origins of the Buckeye State’s gun

Reintroduction efforts for state-endangered lake sturgeon expanded to the Cuyahoga, Sandusky, and Scioto rivers in 2025, according to the Ohio DNR (ODNR) Division of Wildlife.
As part of a large, regional partnership, the 6-

Sens. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) and Gary Peters’ (D-Mich.) bill, the Great Lakes Fishery Research Reauthorization Act, passed the Senate by unanimous consent on Nov. 19.
The Great Lakes Fishery Research Program expired at the
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