Ohio’s statewide fishing and hunting report on May 28, 2026
Staff Report
May 28, 2026
Crappies still holding deeper as spring progresses. Here’s the Ohio fishing and hunting report on May 28, 2026.
Turkey
Dan Ladd: Hoping for a successful late turkey season
Dan Ladd
May 28, 2026
Anyone who has ever played a sport of any kind, whether it was baseball or basketball in high school, or even bowling, billiards or golf (or more likely today, pickellball) knows what a slump is.<br
Dean Bortz: It was a turkey hunt like never seen before…
Dean Bortz
May 28, 2026
John Madden could have made the call on a first-season gobbler finally killed by yours truly in Zone 7’s Vilas County.
“And there goes Bortz yet again, rumblin’, bumblin’, and stumblin’ through the woods.
Widlife to benefit from NWTF, Illinois DNR tree distribution project
Anthony Candia
May 28, 2026
A new statewide habitat effort put thousands of wildlife-friendly trees and shrubs into the hands of Illinois landowners this spring, while improving habitat for wild turkeys across the state.
The Illinois National Wild Turkey
Mom, daughters ‘triple-up’ on first birds during Wisconsin hunt
Tim Eisele
May 27, 2026
Going three-for-three is a pretty good average for turkey hunters, and three young ladies recorded that perfect score during a recent learn-to-hunt (LTH) outing.
Mother Libby Stark, 38, and sisters Ava Stark, 12, and
Patrick Durkin: No room for guilt if scoring on rare gobbler double
Patrick Durkin
May 27, 2026
If I didn’t view turkeys as nature’s most fickle, frustrating and fascinating bird, I might have felt guilty for shooting a gobbler May 8 as it stood confused while its buddy flapped its last among
Vermont celebrates its wild turkey restoration history
Dan Ladd
May 27, 2026
On a breezy Saturday afternoon in mid-April, over 150 people gathered in the tiny Vermont unincorporated village of West Pawlet – just 200 yards from the New York border – to celebrate the reintroduction and
New York Mixed Bag: DEC launches inaugural Hunter & Trapper Achievement Awards Program
Staff and News Reports
May 26, 2026
To recognize hunters and trappers who legally harvest game species, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has launched the inaugural Hunter Achievement Awards program.
State Roundup: Wisconsin’s elk herds growing, and public lands groups sue over corner crossing in Montana
Dean Bortz
May 26, 2026
Wisconsin’s northern and central elk herds are expected to gain at least 96 calves in total this spring, but that number could reach as high as 214.
However, it’s more likely that once all
