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Sun files A rat snake may look pretty formidable, but it is really more helpful than dangerous. High water has driven many snakes from their normal habitats into areas they normally don't slither into.
Flooding exodus has some slither to it
By STEVE VANTREESE outdoors@paducahsun.com While pride may goeth before a fall, numerous people recently have found that snakes goeth before rising water. One of the consequences of the re...
May 21, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Lakes offer plenty of watercraft options for the boatless
Nothing beats getting on a lake and tailing behind a speedboat on a pair of skiis or a tube. Speed not your thing? Maybe you’d rather cruise the shores of the lake on a pontoon, a little slower ...
May 17, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Extended squirrel season coincides with spring population bulge
By STEVE VANTREESE Kentucky’s spring squirrel season starts earlier this year with an expansion to four full weeks of hunting. It starts May 21 and runs through June 17. A 28-day season has b...
May 14, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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The female of the species of common floodwater mosquito, Aedes vexans, don’t require people for survival -- but they apparently really like the taste.
Predictably, these are high times for mosquitoes of the floodwaters
Even as the high water recedes, that low hum you might hear out there could be the fruits of well-moistened mosquito eggs. After flooding that put backwater in places that haven’t experienced it si...
May 14, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Inevitable high water blight
Those whose homes are inundated with water have little time or heart to consider how flooding will affect fishing, but the prospects for fisheries reached by the runaway rivers aren’t cheery, eithe...
May 07, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Extreme rise washes out most fishing on, camping around big lakes
The elements have gotten in the way of a lot of area outdoor recreation lately. With the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Corps of Engineers holding back as much water as possible to mitigate ...
May 07, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Water-, wind-resistant wildlife
Part of critters’ job description is to endure, survive stormy, wet spring This stormy, rain-soaked spring has been challenging for wildlife, but it’s nothing beyond the coping skills of our na...
Apr 30, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jet-A-Marina Classic catch underscores big lakes’ bulging bass crop
The recent Jet-A-Marina Classic, the largest buddy-style bass tournament on Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley, provides another snapshot showing just how good the bass population is on the big sister...
Apr 30, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Budget cuts would close hatchery supplying all Kentucky’s trout
The proposed federal budget for the 2012 fiscal year eliminates funding to nine federal fish hatcheries, including the hatchery that is the sole source of fish for Kentucky’s trout stocking progra...
Apr 23, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Migration of spring bass makes us at least feel like better fishermen
Now’s the best time for inexperienced bass anglers If bass fishing were baseball, this would be the time of year in which the fish more often throw where we’re apt to swing. No matter tha...
Apr 23, 2011 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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