Steve Pollick News Today

This year the toads in Steve Pollick's creek bottom began singing April 9 and the music has been a constant and welcome companion since.

"My expectations for 2024 would be similar to or better than 2022 in the Sandusky River and likely well better than 2022 in the Maumee River."

Those anecdotes and more are part and parcel of Jim Abrams’ new volume, A Crusade for Conservation.

A total of 19,359 whitetails were taken during the Ohio deer season gun opener. Last year’s opener saw 17,193 animals taken.

Currently available only to farmers in the Western Lake Erie Basin, producers anywhere in the state will be eligible to participate in H2Ohio beginning in 2024.

“While this growth is good for Ohio's economy it could have a big negative effect on some natural areas in that part of the state, including the Big and Little Darby Creeks."

I still have a way to go, but I’m about halfway there. Arthritis in my hands and wrists and worn-out knees put my archery target-shooting, not to mention hunting, on hold about 18 months ago.

If a fish ladder proves feasible it would open about 28 miles of stream, miles of it a vast lake-like impoundment, to Lake Erie species all the way to Independence dam at Defiance, which is about 60 miles from the lake.

The burbling and chuckling sounds of the water stream striking the pond surface was pleasant to the ear. All from an inherited, re-engineered rig.

Bank fishermen have little or no access to boats, and some of them are just plain uncomfortable being on the water. But that makes them no less avid or capable as anglers than folks with $100,000 bass boats or walleye rigs.