Curt Wagner is smiling this week, and for good reason. Wagner is the fisheries management supervisor in the ODNR Division of Wildlife District 3 office in Akron. He joined the crews staffing the ...

Division of Wildlife awarded 10,284 Fish Ohio pins to anglers who reeled in trophy fish in 2024. The Fish Ohio program celebrates anglers and their amazing catches of 26 species of fish. A qualifying ...

Today, McPherson State Fishing Lake covers about 46 acres when full and is over twenty feet deep at its deepest. The west ...

During the youth white-tailed deer gun hunting weekend, State Wildlife Officer Jade Heizer, assigned to Fairfield County, ...

Water pushing surfaces too, such as a cupped face, creating pressure waves when retrieved. Catching a saugeye in the summer is an ongoing lesson in humility. The fruitless casting in July can get old.

The Division operates six state fish hatcheries that raise gamefish for stocking in Ohio waters, including saugeye, walleye, yellow perch, rainbow trout, steelhead trout, brown trout, muskellunge, ...

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources recently closed two overfishing cases, resulting in hundreds of dollars in fines for ...