Hook and Bullet
$28,000 in fines for walleye poachers
Eight suspects charged in Maumee River run crackdown By Steve PollickContributing Writer Maumee, Ohio – Eight men from Ohio and Michigan who faced 257 charges centering on taking hundreds of excess walleye from the Maumee
Trapping prices expected to level after banner year
By Mike WilsonContributing Writer Muskrat fur prices were all the rage among trappers last season, but don’t expect the same for this fall. With trapping season scant weeks away, the prices on fur have stabilized
Outdoors community loses conservationist Washington
By Bill Parker Editor Lansing – Michigan’s outdoors community lost a staunch supporter on Oct. 9 when Sam Washington passed away. Washington, the immediate past executive director of the Michigan United Conservation Clubs, passed away
Bowhunter shot by small game hunter
By Deborah Weisberg Southwest Correspondent Pittsburgh – Two hunting seasons collided tragically in southwestern Pennsylvania recently when a small game hunter, presumably targeting squirrels, shot another man in the face, as he waited with his
Missing fishermen remain a mystery
Erie anglers’ boat may have been hit by a barge By Frank HincheyContributing Writer Kelleys Island, Ohio – Federal and state watercraft investigators have yet to determine whether a Lake Erie tug and barge struck
Gypsy moths again a threat to game lands
By Jeff Mulhollem Editor Harrisburg – In the late 1980s, when huge numbers of gypsy moths infested state game lands in central Pennsylvania, Game Commis-sion officials chose to do nothing as the caterpillars ate their
Reaction to tribal agreement is mixed
By Bill Parker Editor Lake Orion, Mich. – Reaction from Michigan’s outdoors community has been mixed about the tentative agreement on tribal inland hunting, fishing, and gathering rights. Earlier this month, five Michigan-based American Indian
Vulnerable stream, site of ’93 spill, on its way back
By Dave Golowenski Contributing Writer Edgerton, Ohio – The near-calamity at Fish Creek turned out to be a 14-year saga with an uplifting ending. ‘There wasn’t any real lasting effect,’ said Ed Lewis, a fish
LOTW anglers likely to see small-sauger boom
Baudette, Minn. – To those anglers who will fish Lake of the Woods this winter: Remember to bring plenty of bait. That’s because there’s an unusually large number of small sauger in the lake, according
