40 yrs ago
Angler and innovator, Dave Genz of St. Cloud Minnesota is credited with developing one of the first mobile ice fishing shelters. Dave is at it again, some 40 years after working the ice from a closed shanty. Dave is hitting the water with his ice fishing gear but this time in a boat. The design is two fishing holes through the bottom so its ice fishing year round. [Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal]
8.3% Decline
Oregon's hunting and fishing licenses are going up yet again. Residents who are purchasing a hunting and/or fishing license is down 8.3 percent in 2013. Could the rising license costs be adding to the decrease in the number of residents purchasing them? [Bend Bulletin]
$414 million
Alaska had its second largest salmon harvest ever in 2015. However, price for salmon are among the lowest ever and the 263 million fish yielded only $414 million, a 28 percent decline in revenue from 2014. Sorry Pink Salmon anglers, its dock side price yielded only $0.20 per pound. [Alaska Dispatch]
80 Crappies per day
As much of Pennsylvania stows their fishing gear for winter, one Pittsburgh angler is just getting going. Stephen Kuhajda of South Park, Pittsburgh takes to Cross Creek Lake in Washington County to fish mostly by himself. The lack of other anglers and the lake's tremendous crappie population let him reel in 70-80 crappie per day. [Pittsburgh Post Gazette]
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