On an crisp autumn day in the year 1813, Admiral Oliver Hazard Perry, in just his late 20s, altered national history and spawned a coming international peace when he launched his just-completed small fleet of tall ships from Put-in-Bay to attack an English fleet of war ships in what has become known as the Battle [...]
PUT-IN-BAY, Ohio — According to Ohio’s Lake Erie fisheries supervisor Jeff Tyson, last year’s walleye season was the best in recent memory. That in itself might be debatable judging from the fishermen who struggled to fill their stringers, but when weighed against some pretty lean catches in the past few years, Tyson’s declaration is right [...]
Hogs Gone Wild could be the title of a horror movie featuring some of the most destructive creatures to find wild America to their liking. We’re talking about feral pigs here, and the scene isn’t pretty. Feral pigs are getting a lot of attention lately and for good reason: their numbers are increasing rapidly and [...]
When my dad came home with a brand new Mercury outboard, I thought that I had gone to fishing heaven. That was in the mid-1950s when outboard motors for the most part were considered luxuries and my dad wasn’t in to luxuries.But he did like to fish and he did like to fish from a [...]
This year’s fishing season is off to a slow start, victimized by the lingering cool to cold weather. Anglers anxious to dunk baits have so far been disappointed, partially perhaps because they are spending time fishing their usual spring spots. Crappie, the area’s “go to” early season fish, aren’t using those usual spots yet, simply [...]
With Ohio’s spring wild turkey season just weeks away it’s time to listen to hunting advice from Thomas Gobbolier, an unrecognized expert ,but a learned and insightful turkey fanatic. In fact, Thomas has been outsmarted by elusive turkeys so many times that he claims to be the most sympathetic person in the world when it [...]
Sitting here with another deep freeze kind of day tapping on a frosted window, it’s hard to picture that in one month Ohio’s spring wild turkey season will open. But the calendar doesn’t lie and April 22 will happen, ready or not. Emerging trees and grass. Spring turkey hunting coincides with the emerging season, a [...]
Ohio Walleye Federation events are open to weekend anglers as well as serious walleye chasers.
The Gribble gang may be Lake Erie’s hottest walleye fishing crew, knocking down approximately 600 charter trips last summer, a carefully planned and orchestrated summer assault on the fish that put some 9,500 walleyes in client coolers. If those numbers sound big, they are. Indeed, John Gribble and his skilled guides who make up the [...]
This fall’s deer hunting regulations look to be altered but not drastically. First guesses about upcoming changes had Ohio’s January muzzle loader season and bonus gun hunting weekend eliminated, limits reduced, and some other moves intended to let the Ohio herd rebuild. Indeed, there were fewer deer in the woods last fall in many areas [...]
