Wildlife officials in Utah offering ospreys tour
By The Associated Press - Fri, Jul 22, 2011 2:11 pm
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah’s Division of Wildlife Resources is offering a free field trip to watch ospreys in their natural habitat.
Those wishing to participate should meet at the Rockport Reservoir dam about 45 miles east of Salt Lake City between 6 and 7 p.m. on July 30.
Watchable Wildlife coordinator Bob Walters will lead the caravan to Summit County. He says the birds with five-foot wing...
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Fishing report - February 22
By Utah Division of Wildlife Resources - Wed, Feb 22, 2012 12:38 am
Bear Lake
Biologist Scott Tolentino reports that Bear Lake still has quite a bit of floating ice, mainly concentrated in the area north of Garden City. The fishing is red hot! There is a lot of ice off the Utah State Park Marina and launching is not recommended there, but boats can be launched at First Point, Rainbow Cove and the private marina as Spinnaker Point. Cutthroat trout and lake trout...
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Big-game hunting permit deadline nears
By Standard-Examiner staff - Wed, Feb 22, 2012 12:24 am
It’s already that time again — time to enter Utah’s big-game hunting lottery before a rapidly approaching deadline.
Applications to hunt big game this fall, including deer, are due online by 11 p.m. March 1. Prospective hunters apply through the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources’ website, www.wildlife.utah.gov.
Those still planning to apply for a permit are advised to do so before the last...
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Setters rare in national bird dog field trials
By Bryan Brasher, Scripps Howard News Service - Mon, Feb 20, 2012 3:08 pm
GRAND JUNCTION, Tenn. — Several years ago, during the annual National Championships for Field Trialing Bird Dogs at Ames Plantation, a reporter was talking with famed Louisiana dog trainer Marshall Loftin about the differences between pointers and setters.
When she asked how often he worked his pointers, Loftin said, "Seven days a week."
But when she asked how often he worked his setters, he...
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Great day for a Kansas geese show
By Michael Pearce, The Wichita Eagle - Sun, Feb 19, 2012 12:35 am
PRATT COUNTY, Kan. — A solid flock of 400, the geese banked into the hard wind one Saturday and slowly lowered over a decoy spread of at least as many.
Whitefronts cackled and Canadas gave high-pitched honks, happy to be back to the pond where they’d drink and rest for the day. There were so many they had to settle down in waves that moved from near mid-pond to shore.
Less than 10 yards from the...
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'Sight fishing' offers anglers an alternative
By Brad Dokken, Grand Forks Herald - Sat, Feb 18, 2012 12:27 am
DEVILS LAKE, N.D. — Mark Bry had already been fishing a couple of hours, and the day was off to a great start.
The football-sized perch in the back of his vehicle were proof. He’d been on the ice at first light, but the fun didn’t start until about 8:30 a.m. In the next hour, Bry and two buddies, Jeremy Worden of Grand Forks, N.D., and Chad Satterlund of Grafton, N.D., had landed upwards of two...
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Fishing top spot: Sunken islands
By Bob Marshall, The Times-Picayune - Fri, Feb 17, 2012 3:00 pm
NEW ORLEANS — It was the kind of morning that puts a lie to one of angling’s most famous slogans: "I don’t have to catch fish to enjoy a trip." We were anchored off the eastern shoreline of Barataria Bay and floating fat, active live shrimp past cuts in the marsh that filled with clear, green water being pushed by a good falling tide -- and not catching fish. Beautiful day, beautiful...
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First bass tournament in the books
By Joe Macaluso, The Advocate - Wed, Feb 15, 2012 3:07 pm
BATON ROUGE, La. — The first big benefit bass tournament of the year is in the books, and it was one for the books.
Brad Duplessis teamed with Ty James to win Fishing for Tucker with a five-fish stringer weighing out at 23.52 pounds.
"We went to the lower end of the (Atchafalaya) Spillway, down there a pretty good ways and found really clear water and a bunch of structure," Duplessis said....
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Fishing report - February 15
By Utah Division of Wildlife Resources - Wed, Feb 15, 2012 12:45 am
Bear Lake
Call the Bear Lake recorded information line at 435-946-8501 for up-to-date lake conditions.
Birch Creek Reservoir
The reservoir has two feet of ice, topped with three inches of crusty snow. Fishing is slow to fair for rainbows up to 18 inches long.
Bountiful Lake
Please use extreme caution when testing the ice.
East Canyon Reservoir & State Park
Sergeant Keith Fullenkamp reports...
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Ice fishing Lake Mille Lacs: The fire still burns
By Doug Smith, Star Tribune (Minneapolis) - Mon, Feb 13, 2012 12:41 am
WAHKON, Minn. — Eddy Lyback has been catering to winter anglers on Lake Mille Lacs since he was 8, when he drove his dad’s 1946 Willys Jeep around the lake supplying firewood to the family’s rental ice fishing shacks.
“My job after school was to split the wood and stack it under the bunks,” he said. “We used wood stoves in the ice houses until LP gas came on the scene.”
Lyback was on the lake...
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