Curt Wagner is smiling this week, and for good reason. Wagner is the fisheries management supervisor in the ODNR Division of Wildlife District 3 office in Akron. He joined the crews staffing the walleye netting and milking operation at Mosquito Lake this week, and is delighted with the ...

My angling interests are firmly rooted in walleyes, thanks to the proliferation of the species in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ reservoirs near Warren and Youngstown. Our local lakes were dammed to serve the region’s steel industry in the 1940s, ‘50s and ‘60s, with the added ...

Like bakers who sift their flour to lighten their batters and doughs, anglers who fluff through their tackle now stand a better chance to succeed when they return to the lakes this spring. The ice is melting, the days are getting longer and we’re prepping our boats and fishing equipment ...

The world of college athletics has been changing for the last several years, and for a time, it looked like the Mid-American Conference was safe from realignment. That changed when Northern Illinois decided to join the Mountain West as a football-only member in the beginning of January. With ...

Something about bobber fishing has hooked me since childhood. It is there, very real and so enticing, but I can’t exactly tell you why it is so appealing. Perhaps it is the cadence of the float as it rides the ripples. Maybe it is the sudden dunk of the quill bobber. Or perhaps it is the ...

Cyclones are swirling everywhere these days, but instead of running for cover, many people are leaping headfirst into the maelstroms. Name a topic and we make it controversial. Sports? For sure. Politics? Absolutely. The economy? Oh, boy. Seems to me more and more people are willing to fight ...