Ohio’s Lake Metroparks undertaking herculean effort in building new Fairport park
Paul Palagyi casually swung his left hand toward the distant Fairport Harbor breakwater and adjacent iconic Grand River-West breakwater lighthouse: All maybe two-plus miles away.
Yet in a very real sense Palagyi’s vision extended far beyond that collective waypoint. Not in any actual physical distance but in the mental framing of time. Palagyi stood at the renovated Painesville Township Park in Ohio, an eastern Lake County multi-function site managed by Lake Metroparks, which the always enthusiastic-for-the-cause parks system’s executive director heads up.
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Ohio 16-year-old on road to championship archery
Though sustained perfection is unattainable, consistent excellence is a worthy goal.
And for competitive archer Kylee Litner, 16, of Lake County’s Madison Township, Ohio, excellence is oft-times seen in her many X-ring strikes. Kylee participates as a member of the Geauga County-based Knocking Point Archers, a group of both male and female archery target shooters that include youths. They practice at least twice a week at the Ohio Archery Learning Center in Chester Township.
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Jeff Frischkorn: Coveting thoughts lead to angling excellence
“Thou shalt not covet …” (The 10th Commandment)
It was an expressed point of view I had long coveted to hear from Grace, our oldest grandchild fisherperson. “Whew, my arms are tired,” said Grace Rathe, 22. “They hurt.”
Grace had just landed a trophy Lake Ontario lake trout, the fish having swam up the Lower Niagara River to where it spirals into a narrow cauldron of angry water aptly named “Devil’s Hole.”
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Concealed carry permit numbers take a dive in Ohio after 2022 change in law
A direct hit by a 2022 law change to Ohio’s concealed carry permit (CCW) and training requirement started to sink that battleship that year and finished it off in 2023.
This information is gleaned from a report compiled by the Ohio Attorney General. It is required by state statute and must be submitted to Ohio’s governor and the leaders of the General Assembly.
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How will wildlife react to total solar eclipse? Experts not so sure
In Ohio, upward of 500,000 out-of-state visitors are anticipated to join state residents for the celestial extravaganza.
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Young Ohio angler catches, releases 45-inch northern pike that may have been state record
Sometimes dreams and wishes really do come true, and if you don’t believe that, just ask 13-year-old Sam Spataro of Lake County’s Mentor-on-the-Lake in Ohio.
On March 8 while fishing his favorite spot located at the Mentor Lagoons – one of the Great Lakes’ largest natural small-boat harbors that has direct access to Lake Erie – the youthful angler caught a 45-inch northern pike. And then after his (slightly) older brother Luca and an older fishing friend snapped a few photos, Sam did what’s he’s always done with the big fish he catches. He released it back into the water.
Jeffrey Frischkorn: Devil is in the details in Ohio fracking deal on state land
While the idea of using the fracking/drilling windfall to buy Ohio DNR commissioned officers Cadillac Escalades is a bit much, certainly keeping roughly $60 million out of the paws of salivating politicians will prove daunting.
Such concern is prudent, too, given what’s happening in both Nebraska and Wyoming, which we will soon see. The Ohio money is – basically – a signing bonus resulting from the allowing of horizontal fracking approved during a midnight end run by the Ohio General Assembly to allow such activity on state-owned property.
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Ohio club forced to cancel spring field trials as Avian influenza threatens pen-raised pheasants
The majority of the pheasants that hunters set their sights on during the fall in Ohio and other Midwestern states are pen-raised birds simply because the habitat no longer supports wild birds for the most part.
Even in pheasant-rich states on the order of Iowa, Kansas, and South Dakota, the number of wild birds’ ebbs and flows with the vagaries of weather patterns, how much habitat is lost to agricultural production along with access to sportsmen. And in Ohio, the harlequin days of the 1950s and 1960s are a fast-fading memory for a shrinking population of bird hunters.
With non-residents, all is not created equal when it comes to hunting, fishing license cost
And as I am preparing this piece, I am just a few days out from my second Florida wild hog hunt in one year in that state. The third if you count the one in Tennessee.
