If you're reading this, you probably remember your first fish and its impact on your life. Most anglers get their start early on in their lives and the reason is because somebody decided to take them fishing. It's always fun to introduce someone to fishing and the "take a kid fishing" mantra has been stated for years, but the important part is to make the experience enjoyable and catch fish.
An ongoing fish die-off on Lake Macatawa, near Holland in Ottawa County, stems from the virus responsible for causing viral hemorrhagic septicemia, or VHS, the Michigan DNR confirmed.
Abu Garcia has added a new model to the Zenon spinning selection with the Zenon X.
This new model fills the gap by offering the flexibility to fish lightweight finesse style baits while also providing the power to handle heavier baits when needed.
(Provided by Indiana DNR)
Even though the DNR stocked fewer walleyes in Sylvan and Winona lakes during the past three years, studies show thats had no effect on the number of walleyes that survived.
That means anglers will find plenty of walleyes to catch in those northeastern Indiana lakes. It also appears to mean factors other than stocking rates play more important roles in determining walleye survival.
From 2001 through 2009, DNR fisheries biologists stocked fingerling walleyes annually at the rate of 20 per acre at Sylvan in Noble County and Winona in Kosciusko County. That rate was cut to 15 per acre from 2010 through 2012. Survival rates one year later were generally greater at the lower stocking rate than at the higher one.
By Louie Stout
New regulations may have led Indiana to a record deer harvest last fall, but statistics reveal the states deer herd, especially bucks, may be declining.
Statewide hunters took advantage of regulation changes and extra hunting dates to bag a record 136,248 deer during the 2012 season, a 6 percent increase over 2011 and topped the previous record of 134,004 deer set in 2010.
We started down the path to strategically reduce the deer herd in order to balance the ecological, recreational, and economic needs of Indiana citizens, said Mitch Marcus, wildlife chief for the DNR Division of Fish & Wildlife, in a press release. We initiated several regulation changes to make it easier to take antlerless deer. It appears the regulations may be working.
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