
Ohio Outdoor News Fishing Report – April 28, 2025 – video
Spring fishing couldn’t get much better than it is right now, both on inland waters for crappies and saugeyes and Lake Erie for walleyes.

Spring fishing couldn’t get much better than it is right now, both on inland waters for crappies and saugeyes and Lake Erie for walleyes.

A social-media friend recently sent me a link to YouTube videos about using “feminine napkins” as bait for catching bass, catfish, lake trout, and rainbow trout.
He considered the videos “LOL,” and said the

Pam Allen is a mover and a shaker in the fly-fishing world that involves Ohio.
But, Allen stresses that she can’t accomplish anything alone. Allen, of Lewis Center in central Ohio, was recently named

“The second Monday of the Ohio spring turkey hunting season, May 5, 1986, will be riveted in my memory forever. It was the day I was shot.”
That quote began a feature story titled

A couple of people whom I’ve worked with over the past couple of decades recently passed on and I’d like to talk about them a bit.
We carried the story about Ken Fitz’s passing in

It’s understandable that the focus on spring turkey-hunting tactics leans heavily in the gobbler’s direction. Yet, in April and May, longbeards mostly center their attention on the ladies of the species. Where the hens go,

The time-honored traditions of hunting and fishing – cornerstones of the Ohio’s heritage, economy, and community life – are being threatened.
From Oregon to New Mexico, radical proposals nationwide are looking to criminalize casting

“Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.”
As I read this quote by Rita Mae Brown in an issue of Reader’s Digest recently, I instantly thought of how

You have your assembler and then you have your collector.
The first person is a generalist and the second person is a specialist. Then too, you can keep shaving off layers until such a
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