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Boone & Crockett Club qualifiers underscore a rise in Kentucky's percentage of bigger, mature bucks among a stabilized deer population.
Day one for deer
With Kentucky’s first deer pursuits of the new season in motion today, managers are looking for more from less. This first Saturday in September is the opening day of the archery deer hunting se...
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Dove numbers seem not to have withered under drought and high temperature conditions.
Scorching summer fails to dry up dove population
Given weather conditions over the spring and summer, one could make an argument that it’s been a bad year — or conversely, a rather good year — for mourning doves. Drought and high temperatures ...
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Risks of a mosquito passing west Nile virus may be slim, but the insect still wants to feed on us.
Maneaters in wait
As people gravitate outdoors with the onset of hunting seasons, know that man-eating creatures await us. Actually, we’re short on large predators. Most animals of significant size that would con...
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Upland gunning for doves and bowhunting for deer are seasons that open across Kentucky on the same day -- next Saturday.
Sept. 1 launches Kentucky’s dove, archery deer hunting
Next Saturday, Sept. 1, brings a not-so-common double hunting opener – the overlapping start of both mourning dove and archery deer hunting seasons. It’s simple. Kentucky’s traditional dove hunt...
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Contributed photo Jacob Wheeler of Indianapolis, Ind., hoists a couple of heavyweight largemouth bass, surprising Chattahoochee River bass that propelled him to victory in the Forrest Wood Cup.
Youngster ahead in fishing game with Wood Cup win
Fishing for a living, you might not expect to make half a million dollars in a lifetime, much less than by age 21. But how about in one tournament at that age? Jacob Wheeler of Indianapolis beca...
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Steve Vantreese These red oak acorns -- some apparently fully developed, some not -- were being cast off by the trees in early August, much earlier than normal.
Price of dry times
While it may be too early to see the big picture, it looks like drought is cutting deeply into nature’s pantry this year. The crop of hard mast — acorns and nuts that typically feed wildlife lat...
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Kentucky's hunting season for squirrels opens next Saturday, but it doesn't headline with hunters like it once did.
When squirrels were bigger
Paleontologists poking around in the fossilized remnants of the ice ages have found no indications that squirrels ever lumbered around as mega-fauna. Nobody is saying that herds of saber-toothed...
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Glynn Grogan (left) of Arlington and Walter Hayes of Cunningham used this monster 81-pound blue cat to anchor a 222-pound limit en route to winning the 2011 version of the Fishermen's Bluff Catfish Tournament.
Mentor-youth dove hunt registration opens Monday
The sign-up period for early September mentor-youth dove hunts begins Monday — and far western Kentucky has a field set aside for these restricted hunts this season. Mentor-youth dove hunts are ...
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A whitetail buck goes from empty pedicles to a full head of fuzzy antler growth ­-- all he can manage for his stage of life -- in about five months time.
Becoming boneheads
If you were to touch them, deer antlers today might be warm and fuzzy feeling. But it wouldn’t last. That headgear of adult male whitetails is racing toward becoming cold, hard bone. So it is wi...
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Dan Morehead
Feds’ framework offers 60-day duck season, 6-duck limit
After finding more ducks in nesting territories this year when they might have expected fewer, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service again has offered its most liberal hunting frameworks within which ...
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