Fishing
WI: DNR decides to expand customer service hours
Madison – The DNR has announced that over-the-counter service hours at a number of service centers will expand. When the transition is complete later this winter, the changes will be phased in center by center
WI: Warm weather shorting southern lakes of ice
Milwaukee – The best current advice for those planning to ice fish on most of the lakes in the southern third of Wisconsin, including the major harbors on Lake Michigan, is to call ahead for
WI: State takes stab at sea duck hunt
Madison – If Wisconsin duck hunters are ever going to have a sea duck season on the Great Lakes, it’s going to take the cooperation of other Great Lakes states. Not to mention plenty of
NY: L.I. fall turkey take dips
Stony Brook, N.Y. – Long Island’s third fall turkey hunt wasn’t nearly as successful from a harvest standpoint as the 2009 and 2010 seasons, DEC statistics are showing. DEC wildlife biologist Mike Schiavone said the
NY: Bear kill up in two regions, thanks to new regs
Extended season, expanded area boosts harvest Albany – Simple math was simply bad news for the bears this season – at least in two regions of New York. Preliminary reports from the DEC show a
IL: Poaching arrests top list of 2011 outdoors stories
Springfield – Hunters and anglers in the state apparently grew weary of “Blago Babble” this past year. At the end of each of the past three years, former Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his follies could
IL: State’s bass anglers must modify popular rig
Springfield – The Alabama Rig, the latest craze in the bass fishing world, must be modified to be used legally in most of Illinois’ waters, according to DNR assistant fisheries chief Dan Stephenson. The rig
IL: Deer hunter success on even course
Springfield – With late winter totals still to be tallied, it appears as though DNR’s prediction of a “status quo” deer season was right on target, so to speak. sta-tus quo n: 1. the existing
VT: Two Plead Guilty to Taking Endangered Sturgeon
WAITSFIELD, Vt — Two Burlington men pled no contest on December 23rd to taking an endangered species of fish in Addison County. Dhan Gurung, 27, of Winooski and Kamal Pradhan, 31, from South Burlington were
