Fishing
Barnhart: Document is important to sportsmen
By Steve Piatt Editor Albany — It’s not the kind of document you’ll find in a hunting camp, or something you’ll plunge into as you sit by the fire on a cold winter night. Make
Biologist says habitat shortage hurts grouse
By Tim Eisele Correspondent Madison — Wisconsin’s grouse population has been in the dumps, and hunters want to know why. Grouse populations, especially in the north, normally vary on a 10-year cycle between peaks and
Season of change in Southern Zone
By Steve Piatt Editor Albany — If there’s any question that this Southern Zone deer season will be different than years past, all you have to do is look at a calendar. Opening Day this
Changes suggested for muskie stocking
By Dean Bortz Editor Stevens Point, Wis. — The DNR’s muskie propagation program is in pretty good shape, but a geneticist who reviewed the program said the DNR could remove any questions about its muskie
ODNR proposes increased Erie perch, walleye limits
Increase would affect early spring fishery By Paula Piatt Contributing Writer Sandusky, Ohio — The populations may not be where they were in the 1980s and 1990s, but rebounds of walleye and yellow perch in
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Another record deer kill in 2005?
By Robert Loewendick Contributing Writer Columbus — The 2005 deer-gun season, which runs Nov. 28-Dec. 4, is expected to produce 130,000 to 140,000 harvested deer, according to the latest estimates from the Ohio Division of
Virus infects, dooms trout raised at Warren County’s federal hatchery
Deborah Weisberg Contributing Writer Warren, Pa. — Federal and state wildlife officials will decide by the middle of this month what to do with almost one million trout at the Allegheny National Fish Hatchery near
Spring walleye fishing for Erie now on anglers’ radar
By Bill Parker Editor Luna Pier, Mich. — After two years of frustration at watching anglers ply the Ohio waters of Lake Erie for spring walleyes, anglers may be able to wet a line in
