Holy Catfish! Now This is Some Fishin’ Tale!

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Published: 02 February 2015

By Louie Stout

Brian Glover shows off 2 of the 21 catfish he caught through the ice.The only thing missing at the Bremen, Ind. Conservation Club Ice Fishing Derby last month was Rod Serling introducing another bizarre segment of the legendary 1950s TV series, “The Twilight Zone.”

Serling would have been standing in the foreground of a group of joyous ice anglers probing the depths of Lake of the Woods, a popular fishing lake south of South Bend.

He would look stoically into the camera and say, “Brian Glover and his buddies from Kimmell, Ind. drove to this northern Indiana natural lake thinking they’d catch a few fish and perhaps win some money. What they didn’t know was that they were crossing over into…the Twilight Zone.”

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Coyotes Likin’ Urban Living

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Published: 21 January 2015

By Louie Stout

Coyotes Likin’ Urban LivingOsceola trapper Chuck Powell recalls a phone call he got from a landowner this fall.

“The man has a bunch of barn cats he feeds and was beginning to find their dead carcasses and suspected it was the work of coyotes,” Powell said. “And so did I.”

The professional trapper had removed six of the wild canines from the same property the year before.

This time, he trapped and removed 11 over a two-week period in early October.

Indeed, coyotes are thriving in northern Indiana. And while many people assume they’re strictly creatures of the wild, that’s hardly the case. Powell says there are more coyotes living in and near our urban areas than most people realize.

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