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Bucks and Bulls Contest Gives Hunters Bragging Rights, Prizes

By Hunting
Oct. 17--TWIN FALLS -- After Jeff Frost bought a local taxidermy business eight years ago, he started receiving requests to get involved with conservation groups. Last year, more than 200 people participated. There are rifle, muzzleloader and archery divisions for mule deer, elk and antelope. First-place winners will take home a shoulder mount from Intermountain Taxidermy and World Adventures and a $300 gift card to Sportsman's Warehouse.
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Meeting on bighorn sheep project

By Hunting
...meeting Wednesday. The meeting -- set for 6:30 p.m. at Loews Ventana Canyon resort, 7000 N. Resort Drive -- will be conducted by the Arizona Game and Fish Department, the Coronado National Forest and an advisory committee from wildlife and environmental groups. Mark Hart, spokesman for the Game and Fish Department, said plans call for capturing bighorns on the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground northeast of Yuma on Nov. 16 and trucking them to the Catalina Mountains north of Tucson...
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Field reports: Wisconsin Wolf Hunt Underway and Other News

By Wolves
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources warns hunters about the potential dangers of hunting in open water late in the season. Many open-water hunters use layout boats. A layout boat is a one- or two-person boat with a very shallow draft and extremely low sides. Do not hunt during rough weather and stormy conditions. --Most duck boats don't make good tender boats.
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Walleye Netting Probes Salmon Falls Fishery

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Their standardized protocol: "fall walleye index netting." Idaho walleye anglers asked for this monitoring. He and Megargle talk quietly about the sizes of walleye they're seeing in the nets. Anglers lately have reported catching smaller walleye, Megargle says. Fish and Game will do its fall walleye index netting next year on Oakley Reservoir, also called Goose Creek Reservoir.
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