Ohio’s statewide fishing report on Aug. 21, 2025
Staff Report
August 21, 2025
Lake Erie perch fishing starting to fire on all cylinders. A look at the Ohio fishing report across the state on Aug. 21, 2025.
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Know these tips for blood trailing before you call in the dogs
Dan Ladd
August 21, 2025
Gary Huber has seen it many times. Actually, he’s heard it many times when he answers his phone and on the other end of the line is a hunter, often desperate, in need of his
High-volume, low-regulation, big fun… we’re talking pigeon hunting
Tori McCormick
August 20, 2025
They offer high-volume shooting. They decoy like champs. They’re naturally sporting winged acrobats. They’re incredibly abundant and, in the right hands, delicious to eat.
Blue-winged teal? Mourning doves? Mallards? Nope. Wild pigeons – rock
Steve Pollick: Backyard archery range about to get real busy
Steve Pollick
August 19, 2025
Hard to believe that it’s “that time” again. Time for old-fashioned archers to get tuned up for deer hunting season.
We are the holdovers, traditionalists, who shoot barebows – longbows, recurves, no sights. We
Researchers discover 62-year-old ‘Mary Catherine’ — the oldest known lake trout in the Great Lakes
Shawn Sitar / Fisheries research biologist
August 19, 2025
The oldest known lake trout in the Great Lakes, 62 years old at the time of capture, recently was documented by researchers at the Michigan Department of Natural Resources Marquette Fisheries Research Station.
Nature Smart: The fascinating fireflies of summer
Stan Tekiela
August 18, 2025
The long evenings of summer bring out many interesting insects that we don’t find any other time of year. I was thinking about this last night, just before sunset while I was in my backyard
Backyard and Beyond: Summer’s pace slows
Val Cunningham
August 18, 2025
This is the sweetest time of year for many creatures. The hectic breeding season is just about finished, and life is slowing down a bit.
The living is easier in the second half of
Patience is a virtue in the squirrel game
John Tertuliani
August 17, 2025
Come September, I wanted to go hunting more than anything else. Getting a license at age 10, I hunted every week. Squirrel season opened first, and lasted until the other big event in my young
Jeffrey Frischkorn: White perch, the beauty and/or bane of recreational anglers everywhere
Jeff Frischkorn
August 16, 2025
Heralded as an attractive anglers’ target from North Carolina to Maine, the native and ubiquitous white perch earns no such honors west of the Atlantic Seaboard. Just the opposite, in fact, including in Ohio.
