New York Fishing Report – February 14-21, 2025
Site Staff
February 14, 2025
North end of this fishery is proving to be effective for panfish. Try using spikes, wax worms, or cut minnows.
Fishing
Jigging down for crappies and sunfish – video
Terry Tuma
February 14, 2025
Drop your jig a couple of feet below the ice and then hold the line and slowly drop the line and jig another 10 to 12 inches at a time to draw crappies and sunfish.
Oil and gas advocate named by Trump to lead agency that manages federal lands
Associated Press
February 14, 2025
President Donald Trump has nominated a longtime oil and gas industry representative to oversee an agency that manages a quarter-billion acres of public land concentrated in western states.
Kathleen Sgamma, president of the Colorado-based
Wisconsin Mixed Bag: Bowhunters Assoc. 84th annual convention hitting Stevens Point March 1
Staff and News Reports
February 14, 2025
The Wisconsin Bowhunters Association (WBH) 84h annual convention will take place Saturday, March 1, at the Holiday Inn Hotel and Convention Center in Stevens Point.
Dean Bortz: Spring hearing update, and is work being done to halt the return of numbered deer units in Wisconsin?
Dean Bortz
February 14, 2025
What we’re going to talk about here today – a possible change in Wisconsin’s deer unit boundaries to numbered units in the two forest zones and a preview of the April 14 spring fish and
Wisconsin’s statewide fishing report on Feb. 14, 2025
Staff Report
February 14, 2025
Crappies hitting despite extreme temps and high winds. Here’s a look at the Wisconsin fishing report across the state on Feb. 14, 2025.
Jeff Frischkorn: Chasing the winter doldrums one fly at a time
Jeff Frischkorn
February 14, 2025
Each whisk of wind that danced through the folds of whatever jacket I’ve worn this winter was met with the same uncharitable oath of condemnation. It was not always so.
Time was once I
Minnesota’s House of Representatives back in action, with outdoor bills among first on the table
Natalie Ryder
February 14, 2025
The Minnesota House of Representatives convened for the first time on Thursday, Feb. 6, after Republicans and DFLers reached a power-sharing agreement.
They didn’t waste time once they arrived: More than 300 bills hit
Notes off a soiled cuff: Federal protection of hellbenders could impact trout stocking in part of Pennsylvania
Jeff Mulhollem
February 14, 2025
In mid-December, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced a proposal to list the eastern hellbender as an endangered species throughout its range under the Endangered Species Act. A population of the unique, huge salamander
