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    Y'er Freshwater Favorites & Recipes

    I’ll eat large and smallmouth bass 12” and up. Most local places have a 15” minimum, but I have one spot for each in my county without a size limit. They’re not quite as good as panfish, but still pretty decent. Perch are my favorite panfish, but central and southern Iowa are slim pickins. I’d...
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    Was my experience normal...or did I somehow F&#K up?

    Dude, how deep you gonna dig this hole?
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    Catch All Fishing Thread

    She told me she was done hooking baby sunfish on every cast, and wanted to land a BIG fish that we could keep and eat. We went out for cut-bait today - struck out on two lakes d/t very turbid water from the recent storms. The third spot worked great, we caught dinner along w/ some cut bait for...
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    Whatever happened to..?

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    New Mexico Privatization. Nuthin like it

    It is simple, and does not solve everything, but perhaps it is a start: All nonresidents of NM must obtain a big game license through the public draw in order to hunt public land. NR outfitter quota? Private land only.
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    Wyoming deer Special draw odds??

    Yeah, every year it gets pulled from the website but remains in the public google drive folder. Bob and Glenn typically save the link, but Glenn deactivated his account and I foolishly deleted his phone # from my contacts 🤬
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    Wyoming deer Special draw odds??

    Could someone post a link to the WG&F Google Drive folder with the tag quota proposed changes? The one with the red and blue mark-ups. Please and thank you. @WapitiBob @BuzzH @JM77
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    New Mexico Privatization. Nuthin like it

    Yes, E-Plus benefits the non-hunting public, and the benefit is concentrated in certain applications (see above), as well as concentrated in regions of the state where elk live. That being said, I’d argue that the entities that benefit the most are wealthy non-resident hunters, outfitters, and...
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    New Mexico Privatization. Nuthin like it

    G&F agencies can and do turn hunting license dollars into a multitude of uses benefitting non-hunting residents: clean air, clean water, clean soil, reclamation, fishing, thriving ecosystems, parks, trails, problem animal removal/relocation, roadkill cleanup, salvage tags, nature programs, boat...
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    Foraged Food Thread

    Dotted-stalk suillus (bolete). Another fun find from my 7-year-old. Bugs got to about 80% of the flesh already - I got a handful-sized yield.
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    New Mexico Privatization. Nuthin like it

    There are many ways other than transferable tags to incentivize private landowners to make and maintain elk habitat improvements. See: every other elk state. No matter how it’s spun, NR’s paying a private citizen for a tag to hunt public land doesn’t pass the sniff test. I hope that the...
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    Kansas elk 2023

    Love the write-up! Definitely one of my favorite no-shot-taken narratives.
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    Catch All Fishing Thread

    First fish
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    A little humour for your day

    Ok I’m lost. Give me a hint
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    The Rinella Effect

    Pace yourself, shed-dweller. You’re not due for another 12 hours.
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