TBC Press - Outdoor Hunting, Fishing News

  Hunters can participate in two special deer hunts to help limit the spread of chronic wasting disease in wild deer in southeastern Minnesota. Residents and nonresidents can participate in the hunts from Friday, Dec. 20, through Sunday, Dec. 22, and Friday, Dec. 27, through Sunday, Dec. 29, in deer permit areas 643, 646, 647 and 648, which are the only permit areas where the disease has been found to be persistent in wild deer. Additional permit areas (and their included public hunting lands) may... READ MORE

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North Dakota’s early mountain lion season in Zone 1 closed Sunday, Nov. 24, and the late season, when hunters can pursue lions with dogs, is now open. During the early season, hunters took six cats from a harvest limit of eight. Under the season structure, a conditional season could open five days after the late season closes, for hunters to pursue the additional two mountain lions that were not taken. In addition... READ MORE

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Oregon anglers who catch a hatchery steelhead and return the snout to an ODFW collection barrel have a chance to win a $50 gift card if their fish is coded wire tagged. Monthly prize drawings run December through April 2020. The contest is meant to encourage anglers to leave the snouts of harvested Umpqua Basin hatchery winter steelhead in collection barrels at popular boat ramps. Barrels are also in Roseburg at Sportsman’s Warehouse and the ODFW office on North Umpqua Highway. Bags and tags with... READ MORE

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  Thanksgiving hunting and travel troubles are likely this week as two storms track across the nation, bringing a miserable mix of rain, snow and wind from coast to coast. We've got a very active pattern this week, with the potential for some travel disruptions, National Weather Service meteorologist Bob Oravec said. The first storm will dump heavy snow, as much as 6-12 inches, across portions of the western and central USA on Tuesday and into Wednesday, Oravec said. Wind-driven snow will spread from... READ MORE

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The Wisconsin DNR has confirmed that a wild deer tested positive for chronic wasting disease near Menomonie in Dunn County. The CWD-positive deer was an adult buck harvested during the 2019 archery deer season that was tested as part of the department's disease surveillance efforts and is the first wild CWD-positive deer for Dunn County. In response to the detection of this CWD-positive deer, the department will... READ MORE

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  The Florida 2019 recreational harvest season for snook closes Dec. 1 in Gulf state and federal waters, including Monroe County and Everglades National Park, and will remain closed through Feb. 29, 2020, reopening to harvest March 1, 2020. Anglers may continue to catch and release snook during the closed season. Snook remains catch-and-release only in state waters from the Hernando/Pasco county line through Gordon Pass in Collier County (includes Tampa Bay and Hillsborough County) through... READ MORE

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  Four new Idaho wild turkey Landowner Permission hunts (LPH) are now on the books and slated to begin December 1 in areas with chronic turkey depredations. The hunts will give landowners, hunters and Fish and Game staff another tool to deal more effectively with private property damage caused by wild turkeys. The Four Hunts; Two new private-land-only fall hunts for hens only have been created in game management units 22, 31 and 32. Up to 50 permits may be issued for each hunt. The first hunt season runs from... READ MORE

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The Kansas Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KWPT) Commission voted on a number of amendments to current regulations at its Nov. 14 meeting in Scott City, many of which will pertain to Kansas anglers: Float materials used with a trotline must now be constructed only from plastic, wood, or foam and shall be a closed-cell construction, or solid body incapable of containing water—the same as floatlines and setlines. In an effort to... READ MORE

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The Department of Natural Resources is waiving entrance fees to all Minnesota state parks and recreation areas on Nov. 29, the day after Thanksgiving. “I wish everyone in Minnesota a peaceful and happy Thanksgiving,” said DNR Commissioner Sarah Strommen. “And on the day after the holiday, I can't think of anything better than visiting one of Minnesota's spectacular state parks, with free admission. In addition... READ MORE

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It’s easy to #OptOutside in Oregon on the Friday or Saturday after Thanksgiving—you can fish, crab or clam for free anywhere in the state! Oregon Fish and Wildlife hosts annual Free Fishing Days the two days after Thanksgiving. That means on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 29-30, 2019, no fishing licenses or tags (including a Combined Angling Tag or Columbia River Basin Endorsement or Two-Rod Validation) are required to fish, crab or clam anywhere in Oregon. In addition... READ MORE

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The 2020 Sport Fishing and Big Game Hunting Regulations are now available in stores and ODFW offices and online. Changes from 2019 are listed in the What’s New section under the table of contents and are identified by yellow highlighted text throughout the regulations. There are few major changes to the sport fishing regulations, but one is that in 2020, recreational crabbers will be required to mark all floating surface buoys with the owner’s full name or business name and... READ MORE

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  Youth and adult hunters can apply now for 2020 spring turkey hunting sites through the Illinois Recreational Access Program (IRAP), the Illinois DNR announced. The IDNR spring turkey permit first lottery application deadline is December 1, 2019. To participate as a youth hunter (age 17 and under), hunters and their supervisors must fill out an IRAP application and send it in by Feb. 22, 2020. Turkey hunting on IRAP leased property is available during three spring turkey seasons... READ MORE

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Plenty of Montana antlerless mule deer B licenses are still available for use in the Moffat Bridge Chronic Wasting Disease Special Hunt Area in hunting district 400. More than 100 Moffat Bridge Special CWD licenses are still available and hunters may buy up to three per person. Licenses are available at any FWP license agent. While the general deer hunting season has ended in HD 400, the antlerless mule deer season for those hunters who hold the special B licenses continues until... READ MORE

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The long awaited 2019 Ohio Deer gun season opens Dec 2 and runs through Dec 8th. Then reopens Dec 21 - Dec 22. The Ohio Division of Wildlife want to remind hunters of the new bag limits; The statewide bag limit is six deer. Only one may be antlered. You cannot exceed an individual county bag limit. Hunting Hours are 30 minutes before sunrise to 30 minutes after sunset.Deer Muzzleloader season is... READ MORE

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