NIAGARA FALLS —
outdoors calendar
Today
n 3-F Club Winter Skeet League Shoot-offs from noon to 5 p.m., 904 Swann Road, Lewiston.
Tuesday
n Niagara County Fisheries Development Board meeting starting at 7 p.m. at the Snyder Room, Town of Lockport office building, Old Beattie Road, Lockport.
Wednesday
n Niagara Frontier Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation will hold their monthly meeting starting at 7:30 p.m. at the Twin Village Post 463, Litchfield Ave., Lancaster (near Transit and Broadway).
Thursday
n Opening of the inland trout and landlocked salmon seasons through October. The statewide regulation is a daily limit of five fish, any size for most trout. For lake trout, it’s a 21-inch minimum and three fish, and 15 inches and three fish for salmon. Consult your regulations guide for anything different for the body of water you intend to fish or visit the DEC Web site at www.dec.ny.gov for more info. Great Lakes regulations are different for trout and salmon.
Saturday
n Niagara County Federation of Conservation Clubs Annual Awards Banquet to be held starting at 5:30 p.m.; dinner at 6:30 p.m. The event will be held at Cornell Cooperative Extension Niagara, 4487 Lake Avenue (Route 78), Lockport. An evening to recognize area conservation leaders. Cost is $25 per person and $45 per couple. For more information, contact Doug Walck at 282-0625.
Outdoors
Outdoors Calendar published March 28
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- It's tourney time on local waterways
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Outdoors Calendar published March 28
A listing of outdoors-related events for this week.
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Lake Ontario is top destination for Empire anglers
There were 78,000 boat trips on Lake Ontario in 2009, according to the state Department of Environmental Conservation.
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Spring rains bringing more fish into waterways
Trout are busting out all over as the rains brought plenty of fishing into the tributaries for their annual spring migration.
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Outdoors Calendar published March 21
Outdoors-related events for this week.
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HILTS: Dealing with public perceptions not easy to handle
Ever since those stocking cuts, it’s been a constant battle to deal with that one issue — the perception that people had that all stocking was eliminated in the lake.
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Clearing of creeks should make for better fishing
Many of the smaller streams are already fishable and the larger creeks will probably be on fire by this weekend.
- FISH FORECAST: Mild weather, rain bring in fresh fish
- OUTDOOR CALENDAR: Published March 7
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HILTS: State releases deer, bear figures
While I don’t have any first-hand experience from last year’s big game season due to some health issues, I heard enough comments from the peanut gallery to think that hunting action for whitetail deer was off, down and marginal at best.
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