Ohio’s week-long deer-gun season begins statewide Monday, Nov. 26 and runs through Sunday, Dec. 2, according to the ODNR Division of Wildlife. The season again includes an extra weekend of gun hunting Dec. 15–16. Deer can be hunted with a muzzleloader, handgun or shotgun from one half-hour before sunrise to sunset during the gun season. ODNR […]
Ohio hunters should begin preparing for the hunting seasons of some of the state’s most popular game species with ring-necked pheasant, cottontail rabbit and bobwhite quail. The hunting seasons for upland game began on Friday, Nov. 2, according to the ODNR Division of Wildlife. The state’s cottontail rabbit population has been very good recently. However, […]
The regular waterfowl season is finally upon us. The Parrott boys did have a decent opening weekend harvesting a lot of wood ducks with some mallards and gadwall thrown in. Now that the local wood ducks have been harvested or bugged out for safer waters, we are now twiddling our thumbs staring at empty skies […]
Last weekend was the youth waterfowl season and I just have to share a story with you. Although my boys and I were a little disappointed with the lack of ducks we had around for weekend, they were able to harvest a few wood ducks and the Canada Goose action kept the guns hopping. It can […]
The 2012–13 waterfowl hunting season dates have been approved by the Ohio Wildlife Council, according to the ODNR Division of Wildlife. The Lake Erie Marsh Zone encompasses portions of Lucas, Wood, Ottawa, Sandusky and Erie counties. The duck hunting season in the Lake Erie Marsh Zone is Oct. 13–28 followed by a second segment that […]
Ohio’s squirrel season will open on Sept. 1 and provide hunters with an opportunity to take as many as six squirrels each day, according to the ODNR Division of Wildlife. Ohio’s squirrel season, a long-time tradition for many hunters, offers ample hunting opportunities for fox and gray squirrels across the state. This is an excellent […]
The Ohio Wildlife Council has approved the state’s early migratory game bird hunting seasons for this fall, according to the ODNR Division of Wildlife. Sept. 1 kicks off the state’s hunting season with the opening of dove, Canada goose, teal, rail, moorhen and snipe. Ohio’s dove season runs Sept. 1-Oct. 21 and Dec. 15-Jan. 2, 2013, […]
Federal and state wildlife officials working in conjunction with academic researchers today announced six water samples taken from Sandusky and north Maumee bays of Lake Erie tested positive for the presence of Asian carp environmental DNA in Michigan and Ohio waters. The positive samples were among 417 taken from Lake Erie in August 2011, and […]