TBC Press - Outdoor Hunting, Fishing News

  Fishery managers from Oregon and Washington scheduled two days of recreational white sturgeon fishing on the Columbia River below Bonneville Dam during the month of October. Approved sturgeon retention days are Saturday, Oct. 21 and Thursday, Oct. 26. The open area is the mainstem Columbia from the Wauna power lines, located 40 miles from the river mouth, upstream to the fishing deadline near Bonneville Dam. This fishery is subject to a harvest guideline of 1,245 legal-sized white sturgeon. Legal retention size is... READ MORE

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The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) small game hunting season opens in October. The season for pheasant, cottontail rabbit, gray squirrel, bobwhite quail, red and gray fox opens Saturday, October 21 – Wednesday, February 28, 2018. Season dates were misprinted on page 30 of the 2017-2018 Hunting & Trapping Guide. DEM's Division of Fish & Wildlife is stocking the Great Swamp, Durfee Hill, and Eight Rod Farm wildlife management areas for the Youth Pheasant Hunting Weekend on. ... READ MORE

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A recent mix of cool nights and unseasonably warm days has created optimal conditions for fall fishing, and anglers throughout Vermont are reporting that the action is beginning to pick up for both warm and cold-water fish species. Summertime conditions seemed to delay the fall bite a little bit, but cooler nights in the past few weeks have started to lower water temperatures and jumpstart feeding activity, said Chris Adams, information specialist with Vermont Fish & Wildlife. I have personally experienced tremendous bass and pike fishing in recent days, and have heard reports that... READ MORE

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  Beginning Oct. 15, anglers can keep two hatchery steelhead daily in sections of the Snake River and some streams in southeast Washington. The fishing rule changes announced by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) affect the following areas: Snake River from the Washington-Idaho state line at Clarkston upstream to the Couse Creek boat ramp will open Oct. 15 for daily retention of two hatchery steelhead (marked with a clipped adipose fin) of less than 28 inches in length. Snake River from Couse Creek to the Idaho-Oregon state line will open Oct. 15 for daily retention of... READ MORE

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  Alabama regular 2017-18 waterfowl hunting season for duck and geese opens Nov 24. Duck, Coot and Merganser: November 24 - November 25 and December 2 - January 28. Geese: October 7 - October 21, November 24 - November 25 and December 2 - January 28. BAG LIMITS: DUCKS: 6 ducks a day and may include no more than than 4 Mallards (no more than 2 of which can be female), 3 Wood Ducks, 1 Mottled Duck, 2 Black Duck, 2 Redhead, 1 Pintail, 2 Canvasback and ... READ MORE

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Join Illinois Department of Natural Resources Director Wayne Rosenthal in support of the Illinois Conservation Foundation at the annual ICF Director’s Hunt at Wayne Fitzgerrell State Recreation Area in southern Illinois. The two-day controlled pheasant and quail hunt – co-sponsored by Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever – is scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 20-21. Hunting will take place on 25 fields at Wayne Fitzgerrell SRA, one of the state’s best venues for upland game and other hunting opportunities. The event includes... READ MORE

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  A dentist in Louisiana has a great reason to be smiling this month, after he took down a buck that could go down as the biggest non-typical deer taken with a bow the state has ever seen – and the hunting story is as good as gold . As Louisiana Sportsman reports, Dr. Frank Sullivan had more than a couple run-ins with this buck – in fact, he thought it died twice! Sullivan said his first encounter with the buck was... READ MORE 

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  Montana Antelope rifle season is in full swing, archery season is still underway and the general big game season starts Oct. 21. It’s important for all hunters to practice bear aware behavior. In Montana, bear country can be anywhere in the western half of the state and sometimes beyond. Recently grizzly bears have shown up in places they haven’t been for decades, maybe even in more than a century – the Big Belt Mountains west of White Sulphur Springs for instance. This is also the time of year when bears move... READ MORE

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Hunters hoping for a chance at premium guided hunt packages through the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s Big Time Texas Hunts program have until midnight Sunday, Oct. 15 to enter. That’s the deadline for the opportunity to be selected for these top shelf hunting adventures. Big Time Texas Hunts provide opportunities to win one or more of nine premium guided hunt packages with food and lodging provided, as well as taxidermy in some cases. The crown jewel of the program is the Texas Grand Slam hunt package, which includes four separate hunts for Texas’ most prized big game animals — the desert bighorn sheep and... READ MORE

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On Monday, October 9, Turkey halted all visa services to Americans, bringing US tourist travel to the country to a halt. Various international media outlets have reported on the visa restrictions, which have apparently resulted from a diplomatic row over the arrest of a US consulate employee in Istanbul. As reported by The Guardian, the US suspended processing of non-immigrant visas for Turkish citizens on Sunday, and Turkey responded in kind early Monday. American citizens are unable to visit Turkey for... READ MORE

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  The three-day WV special antlerless deer season for youth hunters, persons who possess a Class Q/QQ permit and senior citizens with a Class XS license will soon be underway. The first segment of the season is one day, Oct. 21, and the second segment is two days, Dec. 26-27. This season is open on private and public lands in counties that have a firearms deer hunting season. Youth hunters ages 8-17 may participate in this special antlerless deer season. Hunters ages 8-14 must be...READ MORE

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  Trophy hunting for grizzly bears in British Columbia comes to an end effective November 30, 2017. The announcement was made recently by Minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development Doug Donaldson. Hunters will no longer be allowed to keep the hide, head or paws of any bear they kill. If you have a grizzly bear hunt booked in British Columbia for 2018 or beyond... READ MORE

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Two areas of the Cariboo Region in British Columbia that were severely impacted by wildfires this summer will be closed to moose hunting for the October 15-31 and November 1-15 seasons. Zones A and C of management unit 5-13 in the Cariboo contain high quality moose habitat that was severely affected by the Chilcotin Plateau Fire. In addition, the area is important to First Nations for sustenance hunting. Closure of these zones applies to... READ MORE

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  It may soon be legal to paddle a canoe and enjoy a few drinks at the same time in Canada. Paddling a canoe while bombed is still not a very good idea, but if you live in Canada, you may not have to worry about it costing you a suspended driver’s license and impounded car anymore. At the very core of this issue, legislators debate whether people under the influence of alcohol should.... READ MORE

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