Opinions
Steve Griffin: Here’s why I care about Lake Superior coaster brook trout
Why should I care about restoring coaster brook trout to Lake Superior and its shoreline tributaries? Because they’re native, they’re spectacular, they’re fascinating – and we put them on the ropes.
Yes, and especially
Bill Hilts, Jr.: Oswego shines for New York’s spring writers conference
Oswego County truly is a sportsman’s paradise in New York.
Located on the southeast corner of Lake Ontario, it is home to some of the best freshwater fishing in the country. This made it
Jeffrey Frischkorn: From my first fish, a love affair with catching yellow perch has never faded
My very first fish was a yellow perch, and all I could do was admire it with a child’s awe.
The fish’s body was more gold than yellow or more yellow than gold, if
Notes off a soiled cuff: Politics now everywhere, including in fish and wildlife management
For a long time many of us thought – naively I suspect – that public policy making for hunting, fishing and wild resource management was nonpartisan. But everything is political, now.
As evidence, the
Bob Gwizdz: Year-round bass fishing was a long time coming in Michigan
One of stated objectives of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources is to provide recreational opportunities.
There is no better example of this than the current bass regulations, which allow angers to catch and
Commentary: Forward-facing sonar just latest example of fishing technology
Garmin LiveScope, Lowrance Active Target, and Humminbird MEGA Live units are the most popular models. Some dealers are predicting that they and other brands will soon become standard equipment on all fully rigged fishing boats..
Commentary: Trees across Pennsylvania streams makes enjoying these waters difficult
Large wood additions to stream projects – dropping trees across streams – by various state and quasi-public agencies in Pennsylvania are a problem for many anglers.
I acknowledge that stream health is imperative and
Streams of Thought: Missouri lauded for how it manages CWD, and Minnesota operates much in the same way
During the Minnesota DNR’s “targeted culling” of whitetails – conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services – late this past winter, in three areas of the state, a total of 411 whitetails were
Commentary: USFWS adopts new harvest strategy for pintails
For the first time in nearly 30 years, duck hunters in the Lower 48 states could have the chance to shoot three pintails a day as soon as the 2025-26 season – a possible outcome
