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Lipless crankbaits, lots of casts pay off with spring bass
Recent days have been Rat-L-Trap time, that period of the bass fishing year when crankbaits that are lipless serve even the brainless. Speaking for myself, at least, it takes little comprehensio...
Apr 13, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Tick season begins to heat up If you’re warm-blooded, you’re on the menu out there nowadays
Folks out for this weekend’s youth turkey season and next week’s regular spring gobbler season should realize that tick season already is in progress. It’s a hunting season of sorts, but one in ...
Apr 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Timing for today’s youth turkey hunt opening may prove ideal
Kid hunters and spring gobblers could be coming together just right with this weekend’s youth turkey season. The special season, April 6-7 this year, is for the taking of bearded turkeys by hunt...
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Al Downs photo From nesting activity in 2012, a pair of eastern bluebirds tend to some house work.
A little late, bluebirds warming to nesting
Bluebirds probably don’t want to hear any talk about global warming nowadays. Lingering wintry weather of late likely has been responsible for delaying nesting activities of our resident eastern...
Mar 30, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Hunters should encounter a good mix of ages in turkey gobblers during Kentucky's spring seasons.
Kentucky gobbler hunters go for 4th straight 30,000-plus harvest
Kentucky turkey hunters should be in for some good times when the seasons kick in – the youth hunt April 6-7 and the regular spring gobbler season April 13-May 5. Steven Dobey, wild turkey progr...
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When a tom turkey gobbles, it's raucous and explosive -- and often by reflex.
Turkey talk
Gobbling turkey? (a.) As a verb, something that a human is apt to be doing on Thanksgiving and other occasions when the big, native bird (usually domesticated) is served in mass quantities. (...
Mar 23, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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A cottonmouth encountered on LaRue-Pine Hills' Snake Road takes a defensive posture.
Snake Road closes for migration of cold-blooded critters
Spring is in the air and a little slither is on the ground. Some frosty temperatures of late seemingly have mitigated the arrival of spring earlier this week, but the transition of the seasons i...
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KDFWR tournament organizers hoped commercial fishermen in competition would remove a massive weight of Asian carp, such as this netted bighead carp, from Kentucky and Barkley lakes.
Sizable purge of Asian carp achieved in netting tournament
They wanted to move a mountain of fish and pretty well did. Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources managers aimed for commercial fishing teams competing in the first-ever-anywhere Ca...
Mar 16, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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KDFWR photo Fisheries biologist Ryan Oster holds a Kentucky Lake white crappie -- the biggest of which should be hard to come by this season, but 10-inch keepers and somewhat larger whites should be pleasantly plentiful.
Crappie stocks up:
The good old days of crappie fishing on Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley are legendary – and we tend to make them better every time we recollect, don’t we? It’s fact, however, that crappie fishing...
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Coyotes are ultra wary in daylight but less so during darkness, an edge offered in a proposed Kentucky night coyote hunting season.
Night-time coyote hunting begins to perk
Coyotes have more or less owned the nights. Since their occupation of and proliferation in our Eastern habitats, they’ve been top dog – top wild dog, at least – of the nocturnal world. Coyotes c...
Mar 09, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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