Ottawa Outdoors Archive

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) will roll out the new Ohio Reservation and Watercraft Registration System (ORRS) starting Friday, Dec. 20. The online system will reduce reservation fees for customers, improve the user …

BY MARK CAHLIK It has been a ball this summer and fall, giving readers of The Beacon the fishing report each week. This will be the final Lake Erie report of the year. As we …

Anglers may use a maximum of three fishing lines on Ohio’s portion of Lake Erie and the Ohio River starting on Jan. 1, 2020, following new regulations passed by the Ohio Wildlife Council, according to …

Just like the weather, have all been hanging in the, waiting for the yellow perch to start biting in our back yard. When Mother Nature has decided that she wanted to play nice and give …

BY MARK CAHLIK I’ll be providing Lake Erie anglers with a short fishing report this week. While I’d planning on wrapping up this year’s lake Erie fishing report, anyway, I knew that fall yellow perch …