Fishing
Texas Fishing Report – April 1, 2009
Austin (AP) – Here is the weekly fishing report as compiled for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department for April 1. CENTRAL BASTROP: Water clear. Black bass are good on chartreuse/white soft plastics and Rat-L-Traps.
While second fish barrier sits, third one is planned
Chicago – The gargantuan Asian carp likely will have a second electric barrier to Lake Michigan this spring, a move that will mark significant progress in a years-long project dogged by countless delays and criticisms.
Helena completes second round of deer culling
Helena, Mont. (AP) – Helena police participating in a program to cull the city’s urban deer population have reached their 150-animal quota with the killing of five mule deer earlier this week. Police Chief Troy
NRB wants CWD game farms fenced
Madison – The Natural Resources Board wants to keep fences up on CWD-positive game farms to prevent wild deer from having access to prions remaining in the soil. Board members also want the Legislature’s help
It will be a good spring for turkey hunting in Wyoming
Cheyenne, Wyo. (AP) – Turkey hunters can expect another good year in the Black Hills and the Laramie Peak area as spring hunting seasons take effect. Joe Sandrini, wildlife biologist for the Wyoming Game and
‘Can’ estimate of 500,000 would allow one bird per day
Stevens Point, Wis. – Federal biologists are going to have see at least 500,000 canvasbacks in the spring population estimate in order to offer Midwestern hunters a one-bird bag limit during the 2009 season. Want
State COs assist in flooding zone
Fort Ripley, Minn. – Flood waters may have been retreating in the flood-ravaged Red River Valley near Fargo-Moorhead this week, but members of the Minnesota DNR – among them, about 50 conservation officers – remained
No legs, yet, for federal gun-control bill
Washington, D.C. – Two members of the Wisconsin federal delegation said they will not support gun-control legislation known as the “Blair Holt bill,” and one state senator said the bill has no chance of passing.
Feds propose delisting wolves in Great Lakes area
Cheyenne, Wyo. (AP) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has released a formal rule calling for removing gray wolves from the federal endangered list in Montana and Idaho while leaving them on the list
