Thanks to alert reader The Predator, for passing on the big news of Pennsylvania’s new mentored youth hunting law, just signed by the Governor.
The US Sportsmen’s Alliance reports:
Pennsylvania has become the first state in the nation to pass legislation designed to encourage more young people to take up hunting in an effort to increase sportsmen’s [...]

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“Hare” is a big surprise:
PENN STATE RESEARCHER CONCLUDES PENNSYLVANIA SNOWSHOE HARE POPULATION IS IN JEOPARDY
Snowshoe hares never were very common in Pennsylvania, according to Duane Diefenbach. After completing research recently on their distribution and habitat preferences, the adjunct associate professor of wildlife in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences is convinced the state is in [...]

The 2006 Eastern Sports & Outdoor Show is coming to Harrisburg, PA February 4 -12, 2006.
This is the 51st Year of the Show!
There’s plenty for the whole family to see and do.
There is plenty more…see you there.
The Game Commission will offer a Hunter Trapper Education Course too.
The Pennsylvania Game Commission will conduct a [...]

Here is the latest. The Game Commission is allowing us to buy a second Spring Gobbler tag.
Pennsylvania hunters interested in applying for a second spring gobbler tag can begin doing so on Jan. 1, according to Game Commission Executive Director Vern Ross. Applications are available on page 36 of the 2005-06 Pennsylvania Digest [...]

It’s too cold to fish…ice fishing for a dry fly fisherman is out of the question.
So here is a little fish humor:

What do you call a fish with no eyes? A fsh.
What part of a fish weighs the most?
The scales.
What fish make the best sandwich?
A peanut butter and jellyfish
Two fish swim into a concrete wall. [...]

How appropriate for this season….
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Play Here!
Special nod to the Colonel, thanks!

Check out this article: Web guides for competitive fishing through the ice
Any good angler living in the northern states knows that fishing doesn’t end when the temperature dives and the lakes freeze over solid as concrete. It just takes different equipment and skills, and if you think you’re good enough, you could spend some weekend [...]

Ernest Schwiebert, Who’d Rather Be Fishing, Dies at 74
rnest Schwiebert, an architect and planner whose lifelong passion for fishing led him to write influential books on piscatorial matters like how trout perceive insects – all the better to make lures to catch them – died on Saturday at his home in Princeton, N.J. He was [...]

Now here is a surprise. First the deer, now the hunters.
Read the story here.