Good spring fishing bite finally turning on in parts. Here’s the Ohio fishing and hunting report across the state on April 30, 2026.
Youth turkey hunters in Ohio’s South Zone checked 1,941 birds during the state’s special youth-only weekend on April 18-19, according to the Ohio DNR (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. The two-day season was open to hunters
You call and a gobble rings out. Quite a ways out, maybe 200 yards.
If you sit down right there and keep calling, there is a chance that tom will come all the way
Writers for Ohio Outdoor News performed well in the 2025 craft writing and photography contest sponsored by the Outdoor Writers of Ohio (OWO).
Prizes were awarded to top writers and photographers in the state
Even as the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) announced its second attempt to place lake sturgeon on the federal Endangered Species List (ESL), a Wisconsin retired sturgeon expert called the effort “nothing but a bunch
Technological advances have left no aspect of fishing untouched. Whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing is a conversation for another day, but jerkbaits are a classic example of this evolution.
There
Scott Comfort was logging in online to check the results of the annual Maine moose permit drawing last year when he got the news from a friend who beat him to the technological punch.
The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness isn’t just another patch of federal land on a map. It’s one of the last places in the Lower 48 where wild still means wild.
Where clean water,
Two weeks ago, the Trump administration announced many changes for the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service. The plan would move the USFS headquarters from our national seat of federal government in Washington D.C. to
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