Fishing
Bait prices are a big concern on Lake Erie
Rules related to VHS could drive up bait shop prices By Mike MooreEditor Columbus – The biggest casualty of the current fish virus scare on Lake Erie will likely be the bait dealers who do
TV report featuring HSUS draws ire of state trappers
By Tom Watts Correspondent Otsego, Mich. – Charlie Brown Sr. is an experienced Michigan trapper who denounces the illegal practice of skinning animals alive. Brown, 59, of Otsego, was outraged after a report aired on
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
DNR supports sidearms in woods for permit holders
By Mike MooreEditor Columbus – One of the biggest changes Ohio sportsmen will see this fall is that proper license holders will be able to take two firearms into the woods. But, they still will
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.
Saltwater anglers optimistic in 2007
By Tom SchlichterContributing Writer East Setauket, N.Y. – What will this new year bring to the coastal fishing front? No one can predict for sure, but based on last year’s results and the first hints
Fish culling may not hike tourney numbers
Staff Report Madison – An assertion by tournament organizers that fish culling would bring more and bigger tournaments to the state did not pan out during a DNR tournament study. The study did reveal what
Catskills tops low bear take
Staff report Albany – New York’s bear hunting seems to be undergoing a transition. Empire State hunters are still bagging bruins with some regularity, but the harvests are shifting a bit from some of the
Grannis says he’s a friend of sportsmen
By Steve PiattEditor Albany – Alexander B. ‘Pete’ Grannis, the embattled nominee to head the state DEC, says he’s a friend of the sportsmen and not an anti-hunting, anti-trapping bureaucrat from New York City. Grannis,
