Ohio Outdoor News Fishing Report – August 29, 2025 – video
Mike Moore
August 29, 2025
It’s catfish, catfish, catfish on Ohio’s inland waters right now. The fall saugeye and crappie bite is also starting to pick up.
Ohio
An end-of-summer checklist to complete before bowhunting season
Alex Merritt
August 29, 2025
As summer winds down, hunters are shifting gears in preparation for chasing whitetails this fall. Bows are being dusted off, landowners are being visited, and glassing velvet bucks is in full swing.
However, while
Gear items that will add to your efficiency this bowhunting season
Eric Morken
August 28, 2025
One thing that helps get me through the heart of a bowhunting offseason is analyzing gear for my mobile hunting style.
This mobile approach has helped me shoot a lot more deer, but
Commentary: What to do about declining North American duck populations
Site Staff
August 28, 2025
We, the Old Duck Managers Group, are retired Minnesota DNR and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists who worked on waterfowl management, research, and/or law enforcement our entire careers. We have watched as ducks have
Cleaning smallish yellow perch is a snap
John Hageman
August 28, 2025
Instead of throwing smaller yellow perch back on the days when schools cannot be located or convinced to bite, I routinely take home fish that are not in the ideal 8- to 10-inch range that
Ohio State University students report on fisheries research at Stone Lab
John Hageman
August 27, 2025
The Ohio State University’s F. T. Stone Laboratory on Gibraltar Island in Put-in-Bay offers scholarships for highly qualified students enrolled in classes each summer through its Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) program.
Stone Lab’s
Steve Pollick: Ohio needs a ballot issue to fund H2Ohio
Steve Pollick
August 27, 2025
Gov. Mike DeWine recently hinted at coming to the aid of his high-profile H2Ohio conservation program by floating a ballot issue for public bonds to finance it, this in the wake of the state legislature’s
Catfish, tailwater fishery most utilized at Dillon Lake in Ohio’s Muskingum County
Mike Moore
August 26, 2025
If you’re a fisherman looking to tie into a trophy catfish, you might want to consider Dillon Lake in southeast Ohio near Zanesville.
Catfish is king at 1,560-acre Dillon, which is fed by the
Ohio’s Outdoor Calendar
Staff Report
August 26, 2025
A look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Ohio published in the Aug. 29, 2025, edition of Outdoor News.
