Fishing
Parks funding cut out of state budget
Dayton, Ohio (AP) Dayton, Ohio (AP) – The state budget provided little help to the agency that runs Ohio’s parks and wildlife programs, currently facing a half-billion-dollar maintenance backlog. About the best news for the
USFWS: Duck numbers up across breeding grounds
Bemidji, Minn. – The number of ducks on the continent’s main breeding grounds increased 13 percent from last year and is 25 percent above the long-term average, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
DNR seeking $24.5 million for state AMAs and WMAs
St. Paul – Conservation would receive a huge shot in the arm if the capital investment proposals made by the DNR and Board of Water and Soil Resources come to fruition. The two, along with
Game Department helps identify different fish
Laramie, Wyo. (AP) – The Wyoming Game and Fish Department says many anglers need help identifying a hybrid fish called a “splake” that’s stocked in many lakes in the southeastern part of the state. Splake
License-display rule remains in question
Harrisburg – The display of hunting and fishing licenses has become a hot topic for Pennsylvania sportsmen, and it looks like the two agencies serving them may be going in different directions.
PGC backtracks on use of crossbows
Harrisburg – Reversing a decision the board made six months earlier, Pennsylvania Game commissioners voted 4-3 at their quarterly meeting here July 9 to sharply curtail the use of crossbows in the state’s archery deer-hunting
Kansas man crafts hunting bows
Wichita, Kan. (AP) – For a guy who loves the outdoors, Dave Beeler doesn’t get there very often. His weekdays are spent at Coleman and most of his evenings and weekends in his home workshop.
Walleye catch on Leech makes it ‘hottest lake in the state’
Walker, Minn. – Before the fortunes of Leech Lake’s walleye anglers plummeted earlier this decade, seasons in the late 1990s were considered pretty good. In 1998 and 1999, anglers who targeted walleyes specifically were catching
