
Indiana Fishing Report – May 29, 2025
Smallmouth bass are biting on ned rigs and swimbaits in protected breakwall areas and largemouth in the weedier harbor areas on this famed fishery.
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Smallmouth bass are biting on ned rigs and swimbaits in protected breakwall areas and largemouth in the weedier harbor areas on this famed fishery.

SPRINGFIELD – An Indiana man has pleaded guilty to importing more than 2,600 pounds of live channel catfish into Illinois without a permit from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR), the agency announced. Importing

COLUMBIA CITY, Ind. — State DNR fisheries biologists have collected fish and water samples at a northeastern Indiana lake as the result of a fish kill involving thousands of crappies, the agency said Thursday. The

Sick songbirds have also been found in Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania.

Tens of thousands of the cranes are stopping in rural northwestern Indiana as part of their annual fall migration, and birdwatchers are once again lining up for a view of the spectacle.

If the bruin, spotted near the border, makes it into the state, it would be among just a handful of confirmed black bear sightings in the state since the 1870s.

The state’s revised rule aligns Indiana’s Ohio River regulations with regs that took effect last year in Kentucky.

Decline over the past decade is threatening conservation efforts along with communities and businesses that profit from the sport.

More than 200 people attended public meetings about the proposals and more than 2,000 comments were submitted online, mostly opposing them.
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