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I have spent a lot of time in the last month up at Lake Erie doing a lot of fishing. The action has been good with all three species, walleye, largemouth bass, and smallmouth bass but it recently came to almost a standstill for several days. The culprit? The hatch of the mayflies.

“The Constitution does not erect a firewall around family law.”

“We are grateful to descendants, advocates, historians, legislators of both parties.”

Around Memorial Day each year you see many colorful clumps of showy peonies in farmyards and gardens. Some of them give off an intoxicating sweet fragrance second only to tea roses. Newer varieties have exotic flower forms but perhaps a less powerful fragrance.

Parents should not have to choose between going to work to provide for their families and making sure their children are well cared for. A person in a suitDescription automatically generated with medium confidenceAcross Ohio, childcare is far too expensive and too hard to find – particularly in rural communities, where parents face unique challenges and have unique needs when it comes to caring for their children.

Now that June has arrived, the temperature is heating up as well as the fishing. The walleye at Lake Erie are done spawning and the females are migrating north and east towards deeper water and putting the feed bag on to recover from the stress of reproducing.

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Ohio’s wild turkey hunters have checked a total of 12,755 birds through Sunday, May 7 during the 2023 spring hunting season, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife.

Ohio hunters checked 4,078 wild turkeys during the opening weekend of spring hunting season, April 22-23, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife. In 2022, hunters checked 3,315 wild turkeys on the opening weekend. The average taken during the first two days of the previous three seasons is 3,590 birds.

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife will release 84,000 rainbow trout in 88 lakes and ponds beginning Thursday, March 16. Locations have changed this year to bring more people an opportunity to catch these feisty fish in March, April, and May. Trout releases are designed for high angler success and harvest.