Ohio
Channel catfish best bite going in Ohio waters
CENTRAL REGION Delaware Lake (Delaware County) – Fishing with cut bait and soft craws is very productive, especially in the upper half of the lake, for anglers seeking channel catfish. Most of these fish measure
DNR crossing fingers on turkey hatch
By Jeffrey L. Frischkorn Contributing Writer Athens, Ohio — With fingers crossed and a breathed sigh of relief, Ohio’s forest game biologists are hopeful about this year’s wild turkey hatch. It wasn’t that way just
Taft doesn’t endorse commerical buyouts
By Steve Pollick Contributing Writer Port Clinton, Ohio — The state’s three-year Lake Erie yellow perch racketeering investigation “raises serious questions about the future of commercial fishing on the lake,” Gov. Bob Taft said here
Anglers chasing walleye, panfish, cats all over
CENTRAL REGION Big Darby Creek (Franklin and Madison counties) – Anglers can enjoy wading, bank fishing, or float fishing here on one of the few streams in central Ohio containing all three species of black
Northeast Ohio angler tops warmouth record
By Mike Moore Editor Kingsville, Ohio — The 12-year-old state record for warmouth sunfish was broken in May when a northeast Ohio angler caught a 1.19-pound fish. And William J. Reed of Kingsville, Ohio, the
Battle brewing over tribal land claims
By Frank Hinchey Contributing Writer Toledo, Ohio — A war of words is being waged between Ohio and two Oklahoma Indian tribes who say they are trying to reclaim millions of acres of ancestral land
Study shows sluggish Sandusky walleye run
By Mike Moore Editor Sandusky, Ohio — Ohio fisheries biologists have a theory on the spring walleye spawning run on the Sandusky River in northwest Ohio. “We’ve long suspected that some large number are not
Three guilty in mussel poaching
DNR Reports Marietta, Ohio — Three Tennessee men arrested in May for possessing 1,763 pounds of mussels from the Muskingum River were convicted of 15 charges related to the incident, according to the DNR Division
