D&R Sports Center will host its annual Spring Fishing Show Friday and Saturday with a stellar lineup of seminar speakers.
If Matt Arey’s boat number at this year’s Bassmaster Classic is any indication of good things to come, then #22 might just lead to first place. Arey is the ultimate ‘girl dad’ and his two young daughters love Taylor Swift’s hit song “22”.
The Jitterbug was among Fred Arbogast’s signature creations and now a few iconic anglers are putting their signature on the Jitterbug as part of a collaborative effort to mark Arbogast’s election this year to the Bass Fishing Hall of Fame.
(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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