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Loren Crosbie caught the only limit to win the Michiana Singles season opener Sunday at Lake Wawasee.
Ten teams showed up at Lake Maxinkuckee Saturday for the Casting Couples Open, and the fish cooperated despite chilly weather.
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After taking home the Best Freshwater Soft Lure category at ICAST 2025, the Z-Man SWAG LT swimbait has officially hit retailers nationwide—arriving just in time for one of the most important big-bass windows of the year: the prespawn.
Newsflash
Walleyes Still Abundant In Sylvan and Winona Lakes
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(Provided by Indiana DNR)
Stocking larger fish in smaller numbers is paying off. Sylvan, Winona walleyes are plentifulEven though the DNR stocked fewer walleyes in Sylvan and Winona lakes during the past three years, studies show that’s 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.
Hoosier Buck Harvest Drops
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By Louie Stout
New regulations may have led Indiana to a record deer harvest last fall, but statistics reveal the state’s 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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