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Boat News

Give your boat a showroom shine

Boat Cleaning Kit from Lucas™ Oil: Lucus Oil has a cleaning kit on the market that will do wonders for your boat. The kit contains several spray products, a wiping cloth for interior detail and […]

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Fishing News - Fresh

NY: Spider Rybaak’s FREE fishing classes

Local  NY Great lakes Region author/photographer, Spider Rybaak, announces he’ll conduct his popular, FREE kids fishing classes again in 2015, the 11th year in a row. Classes will consist of lessons in fishing with live […]

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Fishing News - Fresh

Think that your knot is strong enough?

Think again…  Knots and crimps weaken your line. There’s no getting away from it. Both methods depend on the human element, and that means they are inconsistent. Don’t you wish there was a better way? […]

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Fishing News - Fresh

Big Wolfish on the Fly

Fly angler Richard Hart braved the rugged jungles of Suriname to hunt the notorious trahira (Hoplias spp.), appropriately nicknamed wolfish due to their intimidating dentition. On March 12th, while fishing the Kabalebo River with a […]

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Fishing News - Fresh

$350,000 Shared By Michigan Dam Management Programs

 Four DNR Dam Management Grant Program recipients to share $350,000 Projects in Allegan, Berrien, Crawford and Ontonagon counties will receive funding. The Department of Natural Resources recently announced it has approved four Dam Management Grant […]

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Panfish Fishing

Tips for Catching White Bass

When water temperatures reach the low 50s, whites start moving upstream, out of the lakes and reservoirs, until they reach a dam or other obstacle that blocks their travel. Here the white bass stack up […]

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Bass Fishing

Running a Spotted Bass Spawning Pattern

In lakes where there are spotted bass, smallmouths and largemouths, the spawn can get complicated. Largemouths tend to bed in shallower, warmer water, but smallmouths and spotted bass might bed anywhere from the shallows to […]

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Fishing News - Fresh

Kayak Fishing For Muskie

“Have you ever seen the teeth on a Muskie?” was a comment that was made to me when I first decided I was going to try targeting Muskie from my kayak by a fellow that […]

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Fishing News - Fresh

ASA/KAF – Defending the Great Lakes

We’ve all seen the funny videos of people fighting Asian carp with nets, baseball bats, and even swords.  Now it’s time to get serious. Asian carp are poised to infiltrate the Great Lakes and devastate […]

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Fishing News - Fresh

Trouble in Louisiana’s sportsman’s paradise

Though southern Louisiana rarely endures the nastiness winter dishes out to most of the nation, it still gets cold enough across coastal marshes to give even the hardiest speckled trout lockjaw. Die-hard speck anglers generally […]

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Panfish Fishing

CRAPPIE FISHING AND THE DOGWOODS

The blooming of the Dogwood trees signals the crappie spawning period.  The rest of the forest is full of dark shafts of wood rising toward the sun.  On them are small buds and the beginnings […]

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Fishing News - Fresh

What to Pack for Camping

If you’ve never camped before, you may be worried you’ll be missing something important when you arrive at your camping destination. To be honest, it happens to all of us sooner or later. We unroll […]

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Trout/Salmon Fishing

Finding Put-N-Take Trout

Classic trout fishermen typically throw very small flys.  The reason they can do it is that trout are sight feeders and their vision is very acute.  Conditions dictate that fisherman to use certain flys. Just […]

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Fishing News - Fresh

Pre-Spring Fishing With OutDoors Unlimited

This edition of ODU Magazine will take you from warm weather fishing to ice fishing and hit many topics in between. We touch on all these species in this edition: Shellcrackers, Crappie, Burbot, Walleye, Largemouth […]

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Ice Fishing

CHIRP technology yields big gains on ice

Ice anglers lean heavily on sonar to relay relevant news and information from the underwater world. Watch closely and your display’s colorful flickers and flashes will tell you plenty about cover, structure, the mood of […]

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Fishing News - Fresh

The Avid Angler’s Wonder Rod

By the time he was 4 years old, chess prodigy Samual Reshevsky was making the ultimate checkmate commonplace; a few short years later he was defeating even the most accomplished players with ease. Then there […]

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Fishing News - Fresh

TRCP Urges House to Prioritize Conservation Funding

House lawmakers from the Committee on Appropriations met today to consider funding decisions impacting fish, wildlife, and public lands. TRCP Director of Government Relations Steve Kline spoke in front of the Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, […]

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Fishing News - Fresh

DARL’S FIRST FISH CONTEST

Grease those reels! Spool on fresh GAMMA Line! Spring is about to break loose! The Allegheny River and French Creek will be the first waterways to be ice free. Inland lakes will be a little […]

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Fishing Tips

NW PA FISHING REPORT FOR MARCH 17, 2015

This report is brought to you by PA Great Lakes Region tourism with additional sponsorship from Wiegel Brothers Marine and GAMMA Fishing. We answer the question: “What’s biting in the lakes, streams and rivers of […]