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Buying licenses online will be easier and more convenient for hunters, anglers and trappers thanks to a new system that the DNR will launch this week.
The new system at www.INHuntFish.com requires customers 18 and older to create an online account. Customers can use the account to purchase their licenses, purchase or redeem gift certificates, acquire their Harvest Information Program (HIP) number, and make donations.
Having information saved to an account makes purchasing future licenses much easier for yourself and for any children under age 18 that you list as an associate. If you're already a DNR customer, use your Customer ID located on the top left of your license to log in.
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Now that aquatic plants have returned to Lake Webster, the DNR is relaxing limits on how much weed control will be permitted this summer at the 774-acre lake in Kosciusko County.
Caps on how many acres of vegetation can be chemically treated by local residents were put in place six years ago after a lake-wide project that wiped out many plants, muddied the water, and upset anglers.
Since then the plant community has rebounded to the point that some areas, if left untreated, may not be usable by boaters or anglers.
On May 4 lake residents hired a licensed pesticide applicator to treat 155 acres of Eurasian water milfoil, a species capable of forming dense mats on the surface.
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The Indiana DNR has a new deer biologist and a new mammologist.
Joe Caudell, the deer biologist, joins the DNR Division of Fish & Wildlife from Murray State University in Kentucky, where he had served as assistant professor of wildlife since 2013. He also has served as an adjunct professor in Purdue University's Department of Forestry and Natural Resources since 2011.
Taylor Rasmussen, the new mammologist, joins DNR Fish & Wildlife after earning his master's degree in biological sciences with a focus on small mammal ecology from Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas. He earned his undergraduate degree in biology from Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa, in 2012.
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Biologists concerned that muskies are being moved by anglers.
The list of northern Indiana waters where muskies can now be found continues to expand ó a trend DNR biologists say is not necessarily a good thing.
Although muskie fingerlings are stocked each year into eight lakes in the region to provide muskie fishing, muskies are now showing up in waters where no DNR stockings or legally permitted private stockings have occurred.
Not all lakes are suitable for muskies, a large predatory sport fish. The DNR stocks them in lakes with an overabundance of forage fish, such as gizzard shad. In lakes where forage fish aren't abundant, muskies could outcompete native sport fish such as largemouth bass and Northern pike for food.
"Our biggest concern is that some fish may find suitable spawning habitat, reproduce, and eventually compete with other fish," said Jeremy Price, northern Indiana fisheries supervisor. "So far muskie reproduction has been limited in Indiana. We would like to keep them where they are."
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By Louie Stout
Hunters took more bucks last fall. - Photo credit - Bob Robertson
If you thought there were fewer bucks to shoot last falls deer season in Indiana, think again.
In fact, the buck harvest was up statewide and Michiana was no exception. St. Joseph and adjoining counties all saw slight increases in the buck harvest.
Apparently Michiana hunters were more interested in shooting bucks than does because the antlerless harvest was down.
The statewide harvest was similar. The buck kill was up 10 percent while the antlerless harvest was down 1 percent compared to 2014.