Outdoor News Foundation Names 2026 Award Recipients
Site Staff
November 3, 2026
As Give to the Max Day and holiday giving season approach, the Outdoor News Foundation highlights its second-year successes.
Fishing
Ohio christens new research boat for Lake Erie work
John Hageman
November 3, 2026
The Ohio Division of Wildlife recently launched a new research vessel for the state’s Lake Erie fishery.
Lake Erie Water Leaks Into Morton Salt Mine
Jeff Frischkorn
November 3, 2026
State officials say the flooding at Morton’s salt mine under Lake Erie poses no immediate threat to the lake or its fisheries. But with the water’s source still unknown and the mine closed indefinitely, many
Ohio Mixed Bag: No big motors on Lake Hope
Staff and News Reports
November 2, 2026
After public feedback, the ODNR has decided not to allow larger boat motors at Lake Hope in southeast Ohio.
First lake sturgeon feeding excavations documented by Michigan research team
John Hageman
November 1, 2026
Excavations in sediments have long been identified as being made by green sturgeon and white sturgeon in Washington state’s Pacific Ocean estuaries and Atlantic sturgeon in the intertidal mudflats of the Bay of Fundy, New
Jeffrey Frischkorn: Lessons and life with my granddaughter
Jeff Frischkorn
October 31, 2026
“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Even though Grace Rathe is one-third of my many years on Earth,
Got a hankering to build a wooden canoe? Here’s how to do it
Mark Neuzil
October 26, 2026
“The way of a canoe is the way of the wilderness and of a freedom almost forgotten. It is an antidote to insecurity, the open door to waterways of ages past and a way of
Lowhead dam removal slated for Ohio’s Cloverlick Creek
DNR Report
October 23, 2026
As part of Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s H2Ohio initiative, the Ohio DNR (ODNR) broke ground Oct. 20 on the Cloverlick Dam removal project in Clermont County to improve water quality in the stream.
Ohio crappie patterns follow the shad in the fall
John Tertuliani
October 23, 2026
The sunrise was the kind you want to see. A slip of pink, then orange, giving way to gray. An overcast sky can mean a lake stays active near the surface.
