Shakespeare is offering a fishing permit promotion again this year. Here is the website for more information, http://www.shakespeare-fishing.com/rbff-license.html . And here is the claim form, http://www.shakespeare-fishing.com/images/SKPLicense_ClaimForm_2012.pdf . Forty dollars of Shakespeare tackle is nothing, I spend that much money on fishing tackle of some sort almost every time I walk …
“Take me fishing”, http://www.takemefishing.org/ has been running a new campaign this spring. I heard one of their “spots” on the way to work one morning last week. Anyway, this is clever, and it makes a good blog post for the weekend. Go fish, find someone else and take them fishing. I …
If you have been reading my blog for awhile, you remember that Adam Diehl and Drew Bailey are the Nebraska TBF (The Bass Federation) State High School Bass Champions. After winning the state championship, they moseyed on down to Texas and kicked some butt in the regional high school TBF …
HOLY COW! From the way my phone has been ringing and my e-mail has been buzzing today, I can tell that folks have the spring fishing fever big time! And from the forecasts I have seen for the rest of this week, it ain’t gonna get any better. So, I …
I know it is early March and I know everyone, especially anglers, have “spring fever”. I also know that early spring is some of the toughest fishing of the year simply because the water is still cold and the weather is schizophrenic. For many of our warm-water species of fish, …
WARNING: The blog post that follows contains opinions of the writer and is designed to prompt thinking and “a look in the mirror”. You have been warned, read at your own risk. Although there is no closed season for fishing in Nebraska, and in fact I have fished open water …
You may recall late last summer I took a little trip by some of our southwest reservoirs and gave an update on the dam repairs at Red Willow, http://outdoornebraska.ne.gov/blogs/2011/09/red-willow-update/ . For the sake of a quick review, there were some cracks discovered in the back of the Red Willow dam …
This event is not this weekend, it is next weekend, but I want to get this posted so those who are interested have plenty of time to plan and register. Yes, there is a fee for this event. The annual University of Walleye is one of the main fund raisers …
I have been out of the office to meetings most of the past couple of weeks. . . time to give you an update on my adventures. I was in Valentine both weeks and spent time in meetings, but also had time to see some of our state’s resources and …
Ralph Wall is our radio and video producer here at the Nebraska Game & Parks Commission. Recently, Ralph and I filmed another series of simple “how to” videos that we hope will be useful for the beginning angler. I see that Ralph has started posted those videos to our YouTube …
