Hook and Bullet
Ohio Cuffs
District 1 – Baudette area CO Ben Huener (Roseau) monitored black bear, goose and sandhill crane hunting activities. Several cranes were seen in the bag and hunters have already reported how delicious Minnesota cranes are
Minnesota roadside pheasant counts similar to ’09: below 10-year average
Madelia, Minn. – Despite a harsh winter, habitat losses, and poor weather during the nesting season, the pheasant index in the state is the same as it was last year. The statewide index – 63
DNR hires a new grouse specialist
Aitkin, Minn. – The DNR has a new grouse coordinator. Ted Dick, who’s been with the DNR for nearly 10 years as the assistant area wildlife manager in Baudette, began the new position last week.
State’s hunting digest cries wolf, not bear
Springfield – Don’t feed the bears! Don’t shoot a wolf! Don’t coddle cougars! One of the above warnings actually makes an unusually big and bold appearance on Page 29 of the 2010-11 Illinois Digest of
Fishing license sales take 11% dip
Albany – New York fishing license sales took an expected double-digit dive in 2009-10 on the heels of a fee increase a year earlier. And not surprisingly, a big chunk of that decline came in
Quail flush for a return
Godfrey, Ill. – No sane quail hunter expects Illinois to ever return to the glory days of the 1950s, when annual harvests averaged around 2.5 million birds. Or even the 1980s, when numbers were around
Illinois Cuffs and Collars – Issue 18
Region I A District 7 CPO completed a permit fraud assignment from the permit section in Springfield. A Fulton County subject was cited for providing false information to obtain free property-only deer hunting permits. The
DEC may create 7-day harvest report window
Albany – Hunters who harvest a deer, bear or turkey would have seven days – instead of the current 48 hours – to report their kill under regulations proposed by the DEC. The regulations change
Fishermen upset by carp contract administration
Springfield – Upset with the way lucrative government contracts for catching Asian carp on Chicago-area waterways were handed out, a group of commercial fishermen is speaking up. Tony Pate said he’s speaking for a group
