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Waterfowl wonderland celebrates golden anniversary
For bird watchers and wildlife enthusiasts, Middle Creek is a magical, majestic place, and those who visit here this time of year can easily fall under her spell. That’s because in late Febru… → Read More
Opening day controversy persists for deer hunters
It may not quite measure up to Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy, but among many Pennsylvania deer hunters “To be Monday or to be Saturday?” That is the question, you know, the one about open… → Read More
PA Fish Commission set to stock trout in coming weeks
It might still be the dead of winter but that won’t stop the folks at the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) from thinking ahead to springtime and the trout season that goes with it. To t… → Read More
Outdoors show season kicks off this week at Oaks
Now that our area’s hunting season are pretty much in our collective rearview mirrors (gooses season ended on Jan. 21; the late deer seasons here close on Saturday) except for some small game and t… → Read More
What’s buggin you? Three prime candidates – thereporteronline
During our recent cold snap, I decided it was time to stoke up our wood stove for the first time this winter. But when I opened the stove door, there it was – a mountainous swarm of dead and dying … → Read More
Wild turkeys flock to Chesco as PGC embarks on major study
As the new year got under way, I was treated to an extraordinarily rare sight: A large flock of some two dozen wild turkeys feeding in an open field. The unusual thing about this flock was that I d… → Read More
Right whale, wrong rule?
Most folks usher in the new year with high hopes of better times ahead along with a New Year’s resolution or two. But for saltwater recreational anglers, charter boat captains, commercial fisherman… → Read More
‘Tis the holiday (hunting) season – thereporteronline
‘Tis the season once again – hunting season that is – so if Santa left you a shotgun, rimfire rifle, flintlock, bow, or crossbow under your tree or stuffed your stocking full of arrows or amm… → Read More
Random notes from the deer woods
Funny how a strange unidentified sound in the pitch-black dark of night can demand your absolute undivided attention. So it was as I made my way up the mountainside toward my deer stand on a moonle… → Read More
Opening weekend for Pennsylvania deer hunters not half bad
The opening of Pennsylvania’s firearms deer season on Saturday found me hunkered down in my Chesco tree stand awaiting the 6:28 a.m. opening bell. It didn’t take long for the action to get underway… → Read More
Anterless deer licenses face a major makeover
The question Pennsylvania deer hunters may want to pose to the Pennsylvania Game Commission (PGC) and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a simple one: What took you so long? We’re talking about th… → Read More
Beware of Bambi bucking traffic
No doubt you’re familiar with the expression “like a deer in the headlights.” It’s an analogy suggesting a state of panic, fear or surprise that causes temporary paralysis of the kind that resemble… → Read More
Pennsylvania hunters now talking turkey, bugling for keystone state elk
Pennsylvania’s fall turkey and general elk seasons are now up and running. Although unlike spring gobbler season, the fall turkey season is closed in our corner of the state here in Wildlife Manage… → Read More
Waterfowl program aims to reconnect kids with the great outdoors
Budding young equestrian Alyssa Winner of Middletown, DE, was taking time off from her horseback riding adventures for a chance to learn the secrets of successful waterfowling. For the 13-year-old … → Read More
Pros and cons of archery’s early opener – thereporteronline
Like so many of my bowhunting brethren here in Wildlife Management Units (WMU) 5C and 5D, I climbed into my tree stand before dawn on Saturday morning to test my luck on opening day of Pennsylvania… → Read More
JAWS revisited 47-years later
Back in June of 1975 I was just one of hundreds of folks who patiently waited in a lengthy line that snaked around the block and beyond for a chance to view what would become one of the biggest sum… → Read More
Writers’ group teams up with BRC to promote outdoor education – thereporteronline
The Pennsylvania Outdoor Writers Association (POWA) recently announced the recipients of its 2022 Kermit Henning Youth Education Grants. This year fourteen organizations received a total of over $9… → Read More
Fluke fishery floundering?
It’s still early in the saltwater fishing season, but from my own flounder fishing perspective, it’s been a relatively poor one so far on the back bays of Ocean City, Maryland. On the other hand, i… → Read More
Bass moves to the head of the class
Although somewhat fewer folks fish for bass than trout, most trout fishermen who ply our local streams are active primarily in the early spring when the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission and co… → Read More
New fluke regs in place as flounder season heats up
Despite the snotty spring weather, a few scheduling conflicts, and a couple of false starts, I finally got my boat, Open Debate, back on the salt last week. But my inaugural voyage from Ocean City … → Read More