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Updated: June/21/2009
It's all about buddies
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Fish camp. The term means different things to different fishermen, but to a group of veteran Toledo anglers it means a week in June on western Lake Erie.
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Updated: June/19/2009
Catfish with a big meow
A new state record blue catfish weighing a whopping 96 pounds has been caught from the Ohio River by a Williamsburg, Ohio, angler, swamping an inaugural record blue of 57 pounds certified a year ago.
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Updated: June/16/2009
Additional deer hunting opportunities
While you are filling out your applications for the state's special deer hunts, known in Ohio Division of Wildlife parlance as controlled hunts, don't overlook additional opportunities being offered at 26 state nature preserves as well.
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Updated: June/14/2009
River cleanup can yield odd discoveries
FREMONT - Picking up post-fishing season trash along a scenic river is like the popular film character Forrest Gump's box of chocolates: You never know what you're going to get.
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Updated: June/12/2009
Summer brings action to catfish anglers
Official summertime is near and the catfish are biting, right on schedule, in area streams, inland impoundments and lower tributaries of western Lake Erie.
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Updated: June/09/2009
Suddenly, volunteer staff not good enough
If you stopped to visit the popular Sportsmen's Migratory Bird Center at Magee Marsh State Wildlife Area on Sunday, you found its doors closed.
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Updated: June/07/2009
Get involved to protect environment
If the image of an oil or gas well rearing its ugly head at Maumee Bay State Park - or any state park, public hunting area, wildlife preserve, forest, or scenic-river access - is irksome to you, get the attention of your state senator and state representative. Soon.
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Updated: June/05/2009
Cold front makes fishing difficult
CAMBRIDGE JUNCTION, Mich. - Largemouth bass in the Irish Hills lakes of southeast Michigan in at least one way are just like western Lake Erie walleyes - they get cranky and less cooperative with the passage of cold fronts.
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Updated: June/02/2009
State asks for online turkey, grouse tallies
The Ohio Division of Wildlife is asking hunters to assist its biologists this summer by reporting online their observations of wild turkey and ruffed grouse.
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Updated: May/31/2009
Rare visitor stops by
In the rural South it is not unusual to hear the evening song of a bird that continuously trills out its name, "chuck-will's-widow."
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Updated: May/29/2009
Spawning sturgeon typifies good karma
Spawning by lake sturgeon in Canadian waters of the Detroit River has been confirmed for the first time in 30 years, boosting hopes for continued recovery of this rare, ancient species in the river and adjoining waters of western Lake Erie.
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Updated: May/24/2009
Flyfishing for trout offers cancer survivors quiet peace
CASTALIA, Ohio - A deep, soothing calm akin to a spiritual massage attends the act of flyfishing for trout, from the graceful rhythm of a well-executed cast to the quiet peace of a clear-running stream that is home to this sleek, colorful family of fish.
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Updated: May/19/2009
Surprise! Turkey kills up 2% over '08
In a pleasant surprise - given the often cold, wet, windy conditions this spring - Ohio hunters checked in 18,936 wild turkeys during the monthlong statewide gobbler hunting season that ended Sunday.
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Updated: May/17/2009
Resist mowing mad urge
Two rabbits in the tall grasses by my pond one morning last week never looked so at home, so life-is-good comfortable.
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Updated: May/08/2009
Follow the Fish: Purple lures walleye
It was a fun to see walleye being caught on western Lake Erie this week with both the jig-and-minnow rigs of early spring and the hybrid mayfly/night crawler rigs of summer. It's transition time.
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Updated: May/03/2009
State, farm reps seek hunting sites
It is clear that the level of control sought by landowners and farmers in this program is a long way from the "good old days" where a handshake and a head-nod were all that were needed.
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Updated: April/28/2009
Wheelin' Sportsmen give thanks for turkeys
Nothing like tagging out for the spring gobbler season in one weekend, and Beth Shank did just that with two birds during the third annual Wheelin' Sportsmen hunt on the 2,500-plus acres of Toledo Express Airport.
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Updated: April/26/2009
Steelhead offers twice the fun
Sylvania angler Mary Beth Breininger has a steelhead trout yarn to tell, and it's a whopper - both the fish and the tale.
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Updated: April/24/2009
Michigan fishing action heats up
One of the most anticipated angling events of the year in neighboring Michigan - trout season- opens tomorrow on many streams and inland lakes statewide.
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Updated: April/19/2009
Spring songbirds are on the way
Spring songbird migrations - a grand aerial ballet with several dramatic acts - should begin in earnest in the next week or so on the heels of some warm, southwest winds.
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Updated: April/18/2009
Walleye conditions to improve
Walleye activity is expected to improve steadily as muddy water clears up in area rivers and on western Lake Erie.
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Updated: April/14/2009
Muzzleloader season to be later
The state's general muzzleloader deer-hunting season will move to Jan. 9 through 12 under 2009-2010 hunting and trapping regulations recently approved by the Ohio Wildlife Council.
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Updated: April/12/2009
Not all turkeys gobble
Everything's coming up wild turkeys on the outdoors desk, what with the Ohio and Michigan spring gobbler seasons opening just a week from tomorrow.
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Updated: April/10/2009
Jig-and-minnow walleye season picking up
This spring's edition of the famed jig-and-minnow walleye fishing season on western Lake Erie - from Maumee Bay east to the Camp Perry area - is like an overinflated balloon waiting to pop, and you may hear it burst this weekend.
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Updated: April/07/2009
Artist drawn to the outdoors
When you cannot be outdoors, a good alternative is gazing at a piece of fine art that captures the "feel" and mood and sensations of the outdoors.
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Updated: April/05/2009
Bill would transfer scenic rivers
Deep in the obscure, arcane labyrinth known as the state budget bill, which is subject of much political wrangling now in Columbus, are provisions that would transfer management of the state scenic rivers program among divisions within the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.
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Updated: April/03/2009
Rain is just what anglers need
The forecast of an inch or more of rain in the region today is just what the fish doctor ordered when it comes to reinvigorating the region’s river runs of walleye.
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Updated: March/22/2009
Steelhead tax fishermen
SOUTH MADISON, Ohio - You learn to take your lumps as a steelhead trout fisherman - many things can go wrong, or at least prove troublesome, from the rarely ideal stream conditions to big fish that dive underneath bankside deadfalls and break off.
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Updated: March/15/2009
File this under disgusting
If you can stomach reading a grisly tale about poachers cornering deer behind a swimming pool fence and stabbing them to death - in Detwiler Park in North Toledo - read on:
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Updated: March/13/2009
Spring signals 'trout time'
Ohio's spring "trout season" gets under way today with the startup of stocking of some 80,000 rainbow trout in 45 lakes, ponds, and impoundments around the state.
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Updated: March/10/2009
Rain spawns delays at best walleye sites
The fish likely are getting the jump on the fishermen in this year's edition of the renowned spring walleye spawning runs up the Maumee and Sandusky rivers.
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Updated: March/08/2009
First Energy, think green
So, what to do about First Energy's Bay Shore Power Plant, the fish-killingest generating station in Ohio?
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Updated: March/06/2009
Walleye runs about to get started
The first runs of at least some walleye up the Maumee and Sandusky rivers may come this weekend if warm temperatures and light to moderate rain manage to ease winter's grip on the region.
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Updated: March/03/2009
Wilderness experience sensational and sublime
ATOP WEST VISTA, Mich. - You could say that it is a peak experience to stand on a 1,450-foot wilderness ridge here in the Porcupines, with the northwest gusts off Lake Superior whipping the wind-chill to 35 below and a furious snow-shower threatening to obscure the view. Or not.
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Updated: March/01/2009
Ready for the worst, expecting the best
Blade Outdoors Editor Steve Pollick recently completed an artist-in-residence fellowship awarded by the Friends of the Porkies, the volunteer organization that supports Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park along Lake Superior in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
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Updated: February/27/2009
North Dakota artist to illustrate duck stamp
A rendering of a pair of ruddy ducks by North Dakota artist Jeffery Hoff has captured first place in this year's Ohio wetlands habitat stamp design competition, the Ohio Division of Wildlife said.
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Updated: February/24/2009
Fremont man finds huge grass carp in backyard
Most fishermen seek big fish but for Ron Davenport of Fremont, a whopper came to him — a 49½-inch, 53-pound white amur to be exact. Right into his backyard.
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Updated: February/22/2009
Reduced-cost deer tags gain acclaim
Reduced-cost antlerless deer permits have been enough of a success at encouraging Ohio deer hunters to take more does that they will be available in 2009-2010 if a plan to offer them again is approved by the Ohio Wildlife Council.
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Updated: February/17/2009
No signs of CWD found in Ohio deer
No evidence of deadly chronic wasting disease (CWD) has been found in Ohio deer for the seventh consecutive year of testing, the Ohio Division of Wildlife says.
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Updated: January/25/2009
Keep feeders full all winter
It always pays to look twice at your winter bird feeders, for you never know what might be shouldering in alongside the usual juncoes, cardinals, jays, finches, doves and sparrows.
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Updated: January/23/2009
It's time for ice fishing, but be careful
The western Lake Erie ice fishing season has gotten under way in a limited way as continued cold and light-wind conditions allow ice to build.
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Updated: January/20/2009
Crossbow hunting may become easier
Michigan hunters are a step closer to having the option to use crossbows much more extensively under a plan under consideration by the rules-making Natural Resource Commission.
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Updated: January/18/2009
Use caution out on ice
The ice fishing season barely has begun in these latitudes, but the warning flags already are flying over dangerous and deadly moves by fishermen.
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