Stewardship; Public and Private Initiatives; Regional
Shedcrazy Helps Prevent Elk Harassment with a Hilarious Effort
Shedcrazy shares with his Instagram followers a moment that he recalls as inexcusable, but prevents further elk from being harassed. Ben Dettamanti, better known as Shedcrazy, has been known for quite some time as a character. A guy who is full of straight faced comedy that if you’re not familiar with him, you may think he’s
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Two Rivers Trout Update
If you are a Nebraska outdoors-person you know that weather trumps everything and this spring has been nothing but a hand of wild cards. I always say one of the best fishing options for early spring when the water is still cold is to pursue cold-water species like trout. However, the weather is even having …
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Duck Creek
Many of you in southeast Nebraska have been looking forward to the opening of a new reservoir, Duck Creek, located near Peru. Specifically the reservoir was labeled as Duck Creek #12, but it looks like the Nemaha Natural Resource District is going to call it Duck Creek Recreation Area. Now a formal “grand opening” is …
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Video: So What Do You Do with a Marlin After You Grab It by the Tail?
These guys found a marlin stuck in a tidal pool and decided to jump in and grab it. Now what? Whether the marlin got stuck at low tide or was sick and dying is up for debate. Regardless, this guy jumped in and grabbed it by the tail. Usually this only happens after some lucky angler
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The Look
Been a busy week, one in which I was out of the office most of the time! I helped with our walleye egg collections, worked late nights most of the week catching the female walleyes from which eggs were collected. We handled hundreds of fish, mostly walleyes, but during the week I handled a few …
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Colors Underwater
You can start some good arguments/discussions in a group of anglers by bringing up the subject of color. Everyone has an opinion on the importance of color in catching fish, and some guys have several opinions. What I will tell you is that we know that fish can see colors, that is a scientific fact. …
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Aquatic Habitat Updates
I have been doing a poor job of giving updates on aquatic habitat and angler access improvement projects. There are a bunch of them to tell you about, let me try to get ’em all into this one blog post: South Boat Ramp Replacement at Pawnee Reservoir Rock Creek Boat Ramp NORTH PLATTE, Neb. – …
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Gotta Have One!
Snowing again this morning; looks like another crummy “spring” weekend. Folks are getting grumpy and that is proof that they do not fish enough. Saw this making the rounds on the inter-webs, so you may have seen it already. If you have not, maybe it will brighten your day just a little bit! Guy Turns …
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Battling the invasives
Those of you who have been to Smith Lake Wildlife Management Area south of Rushville lately have surely noticed the signs warning you about an invader that has taken up residence in the water. For those of you who have not, no, the Walgren Lake Monster of local legend has not moved east — as …
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Let’s Thank Orvis for Yet Another Great Feeding Trout Video
We could watch this video of a brown trout feeding all day long. Thanks, Orvis! It’s been another long winter and we’re sick and tired of watching our fly rods collect dust. Thanks to a couple friends of Orvis, Dave and Amelia Jensen, we can at least feast our eyes on a video of a
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It Is That Time Again
Let’s see, snowed yesterday, more forecast for later this week, it is below freezing, ice just melted, it is cloudy, the wind is blowing, and the calendar says first week in April. Yep, must be time for the walleye spawn! Our Nebraska Game & Parks Commission fisheries crews will be hitting the water starting this …
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Time To Get Outta the Office!
Holy Cow! I look out my window right now and the sun is shining! Seems like we have had nothing but cloudy, damp, and cold, forever! I think this calls for drastic action! Naturally Mike would tell you to go catch a bass, should be a good day for that, but it could be a …
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Here’s Why Removing a Hook from a Beached Shark is Dangerous
This guy found out the hard way. Shore fishing is one of the most tried-and-true ways to get a rod and reel into someone’s hands, and shark fishing is one of the reasons it’s so popular. As saltwater anglers already know, putting a shark on the beach is just the beginning of the adventure. Here’s one
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Is This the Best Way to Safely Unhook a Pike?
Here is a good tutorial on one man’s method of unhooking a pike with a deeply seated hook in its throat. We love fishing for anything that swims. For those of us who’ve spent a lifetime fishing for the venerable northern pike, unhooking one properly can be the difference between a fish that survives and a
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Hope
Have you ever held a new fishing bait in your hands and wondered what it might catch? How big are your dreams? I did the other day, a brand new bait. The hooks needed sharpened. By the way, lots of new baits need the hooks sharpened, some of them just plain need better quality hooks, …
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How HUSH and Hunters Are Giving Back to the Community
Just when you thought the hunting community was beginning to fail, the HUSH crew and their followers come through with a remarkable story. The hunting industry is one of kind. It always has been. The foundation of hunting sits on a basis of tradition, a necessity to provide and a community of people with a
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I’ll Have a Box Please….
This weekend should be an interesting one for turkey hunters. Warm Saturday and then some disagreeable weather for Sunday. You have to love spring turkey hunting! No matter, grab your turkey calls and head to the woods as things may start heating up soon! Over the years, I have come to be very fond of …
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Huskerland Muskie Hunters
This week I will be talking muskies! Once again I will tell you that I have not been to a meeting of Nebraska’s Muskies Inc. Chapter, Huskerland Muskie Hunters, for a while and it is time to remedy that! They will be getting together this coming Thursday evening, at the Scheel’s store in west Omaha, …
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