Follow along as we have a great day banding geese!

What a night I had taking my son Colin fishing!

Come along on my first trip down the Juniata on a Clackacraft drift boat with Eric Richards of Coveted Waters.

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We are home from our trip with Alberta Backwoods Outfitters in Northern Alberta and the trip of a lifetime would be an understatement. The title of this article is a little misleading because the entire adventure truly was a fantastic trip.

HARRISBURG –Pennsylvania Game Commission Executive Director Carl G. Roe today announced that he was retaining protection on feral swine in Bedford County in an effort to facilitate trapping by individuals permitted by the agency and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Roe did, however, lift the protection in Bradford, Fulton, Susquehanna and Wyoming counties. Under the executive order, issued in May of 2008, protection remains lifted on feral swine in the remaining 62 counties.

Pennsylvania Game Commission Executive Director Carl G. Roe today announced the agency will award 1,780 permits for the 2009-10 bobcat hunting/furtaking seasons at a public drawing in its Harrisburg headquarters on Friday, Sept. 11. As part of the public drawing for the allocated permits, those applicants with six preference points (five previous points and one for this year’s application) will automatically receive a bobcat permit.

HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania Game Commission officials today announced that hunters and trappers harvested 487 bobcats during the 2008-09 bobcat seasons.
Harvest numbers for 2008-09 by WMU are: WMU 2A, 2; WMU 2C, 34; WMU 2E, 14; WMU 2F, 41; WMU 2G, 126; WMU 3A, 56; WMU 3B, 123; WMU 3C, 42; WMU 3D, 23; and [...]

HARRISBURG – Jerry Bish, Pennsylvania Game Commission Land Management Group Supervisor recently was recognized as the 2008 Conservationist of the Year by Pennsylvania Ducks Unlimited.

Harrisburg, PA - Have a little free time on your hands? Grab a friend or family member and try some free fishing. Thanks to the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC), the only thing you’ll have to spend is some quality time together.

Harrisburg, PA - Boating safety experts want to get something off their chest and onto yours: a life jacket. The importance of flotation devices and other watercraft safety tips are the focus of the 2009 National Safe Boating Week, May 16-22.

Harrisburg, PA, — The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) has been awarded $985,991 in federal funding through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Boating Infrastructure Grant (BIG) program to construct transient docks on the Allegheny River along the Convention Center Riverfront Park in Pittsburgh.

The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission has cancelled today’s scheduled fish stocking of the Approved Trout Waters on Connoquenessing Creek in Butler, PA. This decision was made after learning of a report yesterday from the Department of Environmental Protection that found high levels of arsenic in the soil in this area.

By Kevin McCloskey
Well trapping season (08-09) is finally over for us, and what a good year it was. The boys had a blast, and hopefully learned something along the way. We did real good most of the season, till all the snow showed up. After that much snow things really slowed down.

By Don Ott, Sportsmen Portal Field Staff
I have been blessed to have experienced Alberta Canada twice in less than a year and explored a different facet of being in the bush. Alberta has so much to offer and outdoors person. Having the right Guide gives you a sense of security that allows one to focus solely on placing your sights on the animal you wish to harvest.

It all started 15 years ago on Feb. 23, 1994. Here was a wonderful little girl that hardly anyone had given a chance of survival to. That’s because nobody knew the spirit of this child, or the stubbornness of the parents. Arianna came out fighting and will go down fighting with her family fighting along side. A mother lion is an ominous sight; imagine the sight of a pride of mother lions. As a family, we spent almost as much time in Children’s Hospital as we did our own home those first few years.

by Barry F. Yancosek
Slowly the gobbler continued up the faint grass trail, cautiously stepping his way towards the decoys. The extended standoff with our arsenal of calls was over and the Tom was finally committed. I watched Joshua clench his shotgun a little tighter and on my cue he slowly moved his gun to the left.