TBC Press - Outdoor Hunting, Fishing News

  South Dakota’s traditional statewide pheasant hunting season opened Oct 15 and runs through Jan 1, 2017. While the annual pheasant brood survey showed a decrease in the statewide index from 2015, hunters on opening day were successful across the state and made memories to last a lifetime. Standing crops were an obstacle in some areas, but hunters found decent bird numbers across the state. In addition... READ MORE

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South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks (GFP) has received nearly 1,200 reports of dead white-tailed deer likely due to epizootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD).  Reports of deer loss have been documented in 38 counties, with EHD confirmed in 17 counties through laboratory testing. In response to the documented cases and concerns shared by sportsmen and women as well as landowners, GFP is removing all remaining antlerless licenses from the following East River firearm hunting units... READ MORE

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  Building upon a record of collaborative conservation and species recovery in the Pacific Northwest, today the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and partners celebrated the downlisting of the Columbian white-tailed deer from endangered to threatened in Washington and Oregon. The combined efforts between the Cowlitz Indian Tribe, states of Washington and Oregon, conservation groups, volunteers and the Service have reduced threats and secured populations of deer. In addition... READ MORE

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The Utah general rifle buck deer hunt opens Oct 22, 2016 and the state's big game coordinator has some encouraging news to share. He also says a new website is available, to help you get ready for the hunt. The general rifle buck deer hunt is Utahs most popular hunt. As you prepare for the hunt, Shannon encourages you to visit the new Utah Hunt Planner website. In addition... READ MORE

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 Starting Oct. 26, Utah resident hunters can apply for next year's most prized Utah big game hunting permits, the 2017 sportsman permits. If you draw the permit for bull elk, you'll have plenty of days and plenty of places to find your trophy. Only Utah residents can apply and one sportsman permit is offered for each of the following species: Desert bighorn ram, Rocky Mountain bighorn ram, buck deer, buck pronghorn, bull elk, bull moose, hunter's choice bison and hunter's choice Rocky Mountain goat. In addition... READ MORE

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  Bowhunting in Florida continues to grow in popularity with one-third of hunters reporting they hunt with a bow. Other reasons given were having a lengthened hunting season, the woods being less crowded during bow seasons and getting an earlier start on the season. Here is some important information and tips from Tony Young you should know... READ MORE

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The 2016-17 Florida hunting season is crankin’ up!  In Zone A, they’re already into general gun season, but for the rest of us, Tony Young covers the rules and regulations regarding three hunting seasons that are just around the corner: muzzleloading gun and the first phase of dove... READ MORE

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Georgia firearms deer hunters can take to the woods beginning Sat., Oct. 22 and continue through Jan. 8, 2017 statewide. Hunters already know the benefits of having a few deer in the freezer, said John W. Bowers, chief of game management for the Wildlife Resources Division. During firearms deer season last year, over 302,000 hunters harvested almost 300,000 deer in the state. New this year... READ MORE

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  Once hunters harvest deer, they need to know how to skin them, process the meat and store it for future meals. The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) will offer a free field-to-freezer deer processing class in Kirksville on Nov. 1 from 6 – 9 p.m. This program will teach hunters what to do with the deer after the harvest. In addition... READ MORE

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Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks has scheduled a special late archery-only hunt for property in and around Roundup in an attempt to reduce the number of mule deer in town. FWP has issued 160 either-sex licenses specifically for the Roundup management season at $10 each for residents and $75 each for non-residents. The season will run from Nov. 28, 2016, through Feb. 15, 2017. Each hunter is limited to... READ MORE

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  ODFW has confirmed 16 cases of hoof disease in Oregon elk since the first case was confirmed in early 2014. Veterinary staff are reminding hunters throughout Oregon to be on the lookout for limping elk that may have this debilitating disease. Elk hoof disease is a bacterial infection that causes severe lameness in elk. Elk with the disease have deformed and overgrown or broken sloughed hooves and other hoof abnormalities related to the infection. ODFW asks hunters and public to... READ MORE

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  The Delaware Division of Fish & Wildlife’s Fisheries Section announced that White Clay Creek has received its annual fall stocking of trout (a DNREC ritual since 2007). Fisheries staff and volunteers stocked about 1,000 pounds of rainbow trout ranging in size from 11-15 inches long, with the majority 12-13-inch fish, throughout White Clay Creek at all normal stocking locations from near the border with Pennsylvania downstream to Newark. Also included this year were... READ MORE

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For more than 40 years, trout have provided winter fishing fun in select Kansas waters, and the Cedar Bluff stilling basin has been a part of that program from the beginning. However, the stilling basin below Cedar Bluff Dam won’t be stocked with trout in 2016. Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism Fisheries Division staff considered several factors before making the decision to discontinue stocking trout at the Cedar Bluff location.  Poor water quality has been a hindrance to trout welfare in the stilling basin for many years. In addition... READ MORE

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