Hi folks, debating a move from CO to Cleveland, and wanted to find out how the hunting is out there. I've gotten used to grabbing a resident tag and heading out to local public land where I live now, but it seems that in OH I'd need to find a hunting lease on private land, and really need to drive 3+ hours south to get into more productive areas. What's been your experience in OH? Are there public lands to hunt without driving several hours, or should I take up knitting? Not looking for trophies, just tasty critters. Thanks all.
North Ohio whitetail?
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EKYHunter
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I live in KY but hunt southern Ohio, family has property there. Don’t know much about the area you’re asking about, but maybe this will help.
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2 hrs south of Cleveland is Cadiz. There is very good public land there that I used to hunt every year. Very good archery hunting. I used to hunt the 1st week of November every year. If you make the move shoot me a message. I can share onx pins.
I do, but my experience is limited to trout streams. Can you fish year-round? I hear that lake is pretty big.
I was looking into leases, and never having done one before, do you have a recommendation for a website/broker that lists those you like to use?
Nice, I had that marked as a place to check out. Never hunted from a tree stand yet, but it seems that's the best strategy in that area?
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Born and raised in Ohio. Ashland, which is an hour south of Cleveland on 71.
Ohio to Colorado for hunting is no comparison, apples and oranges.
If I still lived there I would seriously look into hunting the metro parks. In 2015 when I last lived there they had a certification you had to take to be able to hunt them and I think required you to shoot a doe before you could shoot a buck but there’s some bruisers.
Ohio to Colorado for hunting is no comparison, apples and oranges.
If I still lived there I would seriously look into hunting the metro parks. In 2015 when I last lived there they had a certification you had to take to be able to hunt them and I think required you to shoot a doe before you could shoot a buck but there’s some bruisers.
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Lots of parks as said might provide opportunity. There are some very big whitetail deer in Ohio, and lots of public forest in places further south. If you like hunting big fox squirrels, OH is your place too! Some good fishing for steelhead, salmon, trout, walleye, perch, in NE Ohio too.
I’m from Huntington.
There weren’t leases when I lived there. None of my family needs to lease land.
I left Ohio 32 years ago. At the time southern Ohio hunting was better. I couldn’t tell you now except the big buck pics I get from family are mostly north Ohio.
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Yup, I lived through and experienced the transition of DuPont Energy and B&N Coal leasing all their land where our cabin was in Noble County. At the time we got lucky and our neighbor somehow obtained the lease for the 400ish acres that bordered our 5 acre parcel. The Sportsmans Club on the opposite side of the 400 acres got shut out of that land over night. They had like 50 something members IIRC. The amount and quality of deer drastically increased within about 4-5 years.
Guy that had the lease got greedy and eventually the $500/year for his family of us 3 including my step brother my dad was paying (to offset food plot costs in addition to the cost of the lease) became $1500/person/year. By then I had moved to Montana so that was the end of that for my dad.
Similar to the other thread looking back it was more fun before the leasing.
