TBC Press - Outdoor Hunting, Fishing News

Women interested in learning outdoor skills in a beautiful setting can sign up for New Hampshire's fall Becoming an Outdoors-Woman weekend workshop, which will take place September 8-10, 2017, at Rockywold / Deephaven Camps on Squam Lake in Holderness, N.H.  The workshop fee of $335 includes two nights of lodging, plus all meals, instruction and equipment use. Participants must be age 18 or older. Participants select four sessions from... READ MORE

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  The upcoming hunting seasons may still be months away, but starting today you can  enter the Big Time Texas Hunts drawing to win one or more of nine premium guided hunt packages. These exclusive packages include food, lodging, a professional guide, 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 including... READ MORE

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The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission has approved amendments to chronic wasting disease (CWD) management response rules based in part on discovery of the disease in a free-ranging white-tailed deer west of San Antonio. The changes address containment and surveillance measures, and permitted movement of live deer, in portions of Bandera, Medina, and Uvalde counties as well as zone delineations in the northwest Panhandle. Last year, the Commission established a CWD Surveillance Zone (SZ) in portions of... READ MORE

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  The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (ADCNR) has opened online registration for the state’s 12th annual regulated alligator hunts June 2 at 8 a.m. Registration must be completed by 8 a.m. July 11. A total of 260 Alligator Possession Tags will be distributed among four hunting zones. The administrative fee to apply for an Alligator Possession Tag is $22 and individuals may register one time per zone. While the tag is free, the selected hunters and their assistants are required to have... READ MORE

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To ensure high-quality hunting experiences, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission conducts special draw hunts on some popular wildlife management areas prone to overcrowding. As part of the agency’s efforts to get permits in the hands of hunters that will use them, the application process has undergone a bit of a change. Beginning June 1, 2017, applicants for WMA Deer Hunt Permits must.. READ MORE

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  Kansas hunters, must enter a lottery drawing for antelope firearm and muzzleloader permits. The online application deadline is June 9, 2017. Three management units are open to antelope hunting, Units 2, 17 and 18 with 180 firearm permits and 50 muzzleloader permits available to Kansas residents and nonresident tenants only. Demand is high and preference points, which are awarded to unsuccessful applicants, are required to draw general resident permits. In additon... READ MORE

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  Hunters have through Friday, June 16, to apply for one of 13 elk licenses offered this year by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Licenses will be available for two concurrent elk seasons in Kittson County’s central (zone 20) and northeast (zone 30) zones. The Grygla area elk zone will not be open to hunting in 2017 because that area’s elk population is below the population goal level outlined in the elk management plan. The first 2017 elk season runs from... READ MORE

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Montana deer hunters, who want to hunt the Marias River Wildlife Management Area southwest of Shelby in Hunting District 406, have the month of June to submit their application. Applicants must put in for a specific archery period or a general rifle season period. There are three archery periods each lasting two weeks, from Sept. 2 through Oct. 15. The three general season periods run one week each, from Oct. 21 through Nov. 12.  A random drawing will take place for... READ MORE

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Hunters can start applying for a permit to hunt cow elk, cow moose, doe deer and doe pronghorn in Utah. Applications for Utah antlerless permits will be accepted online. You must submit your application through the website no later than 11 p.m. on June 15 to be included in the draw for permits. The permits are called antlerless permits because... READ MORE

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  Starting this fall, it will be easier to know when Utah's pheasant hunt begins and ends. And, if you own or have written permission to hunt on private property, you'll have more days to hunt. At their June 1 meeting in Salt Lake City, members of the Utah Wildlife Board approved rules for Utah's 2017, 2018 and 2019 upland game hunting seasons. One of the rules the board approved is a single statewide pheasant hunt that runs from... READ MORE

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Vermont’s muzzleloader season antlerless deer hunting permit applications are now available on Vermont Fish & Wildlife’s website. The deadline to apply for a muzzleloader antlerless deer permit is August 24. The December 2-10 muzzleloader season would have 24,500 antlerless permits distributed in 18 of Vermont’s 21 Wildlife management Units (WMU), which is estimated to result in 3,608 antlerless deer being taken. New this year... READ MORE

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  Starting Monday (June 5), anglers can catch and keep white sturgeon in the lower Columbia River for the first time in three years under an agreement reached by fishery managers from Washington and Oregon. The two states approved the limited retention fishery based on surveys indicating that the number of legal-size sturgeon below Bonneville Dam has grown each year since 2014, when the fishery was closed to allow stocks to rebuild. The fishery will be open for six days from the mouth of the river to the Wauna power lines (downstream from Longview) on the following schedule... READ MORE

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West Virginia mourning dove hunters who wish to participate in a controlled hunt at South Branch Wildlife Management Area in Hardy County must apply by midnight on July 30. Hunting mourning doves is by permit only on Sept. 1, 2 and 4. Hunters will be randomly selected by drawing, and assigned a day to hunt and a shooting station for one day, free of charge. They may bring two guests. No permits will be necessary to hunt doves after... READ MORE

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  The Wisconsin Natural Resources Board approved deer hunting season framework and antlerless deer quotas for 2017 at its May 24 meeting in Madison. I am looking forward to an excellent deer hunt throughout all the seasons this year - we had another very mild winter, which will bode well for the herd throughout the state, so I anticipate another year of increased harvest, said Kevin Wallenfang, Department of Natural Resources big game ecologist. The 2017 deer season and quotas are as follows... READ MORE

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