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Record flathead taken at Blue Marsh

By Bob Frye Capital Correspondent Boyertown, Pa. – James Shabrach Jr. spends a lot of nights fishing the spillway below Blue Marsh Lake in Berks County, but few of them end up like the night

Probe finds many wild hogs in state

By Jeff Mulhollem Editor Altoona, Pa. – The genie might be out of the bottle. That’s the way a federal official who headed up a $60,000 investigation into Pennsylvania’s wild hog population over the winter

After flap, Rendell taps top candidate for PGC

By Tom Venesky Contributing Writer Wilkes-Barre, Pa. – When Luzerne County resident Jay Delaney applied to fill the vacant Northeast Region seat on the Pennsylvania Game Commission last spring, he did so because he wanted

PGC: Deer harvest similar to last year

Hunters kill 361,560: Reporting rates now hover around 37% By Jeff Mulhollem Editor Harrisburg – Response from the leaders of two statewide sportsmen’s groups to a report from the Pennsylvania Game Commission that hunters killed

Bill would let farmers hire pros to kill deer

By Bob Frye Capital Correspondent Harrisburg – Where hunters have failed to control deer – or where they’ve never been given the chance, depending on your perspective – professionals may get to do the job.

Cougar review fuels debate

By Jeff Mulhollem Editor Altoona, Pa. – Reaction came swiftly in Pennsylvania to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s recent announcement that it will review the status of the eastern cougar. The first review the

Political muscle is flexed on PGC seat

By Tom Venesky Contributing Writer Wilkes-Barre, Pa. – The seat is vacant, interviews have been completed and names have been sent to Gov. Ed Rendell’s office. Now political wrangling will determine who will represent the

Wild hogs being killed around Bradford County

By Tom Venesky Contributing Writer Wilkes-Barre, Pa.- For hours Jack Sorber tracked his quarry through the deep snow in the Bradford County mountains. The tracks were easy to follow, but the animal managed to stay

Wild pheasants released in east

By Dennis Scharadin Contributing Writer Greenwood Valley, Pa. – The thermometer read 14 degrees with a wind chill close to zero as the group huddled around the truck filled with cardboard boxes. They were braving

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