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Outdoors

  • COLUMN: Pleasant ways to enjoy the great outdoors

    Summer has arrived in Kentucky and with that comes the heat, humidity, thunderstorms, tornadoes and flooding that typically accompany such weather events. There’s nothing surprising in a day in the Bluegrasss state, especially here in Anderson County.  

  • Archery camp tournament medalists

    Winners were named in the recent tournament at the Emma B. Ward archery camp recently.

  • Heavy rains put damper on spring hunting

    I am pretty sure most of you out there are like me and are tired of all the rain.
    I know the folks with river properties are, whether it be here along the Kentucky, along our northern border with Ohio or in far west Kentucky’s Mississippi River shores. Let’s keep all these folks in our prayers as they continue to battle the forces of nature whether it is from water, tornadoes or anything else uprooting their lives.

  • Bullfrog season opens Friday

    The season opens as spring days begin to warm, but the nightly chorus of the bullfrog is considered by many to be the song of summer.


    Spend a night sloshing through ponds and creeks gigging bullfrogs and then fry up their meaty legs for breakfast with eggs and hash browns. You’ll then understand the allure of the season.
    Kentucky’s bullfrog season extends through five months of warm weather, opening on the third Friday in May, May 20 of this year, and running through Oct. 31.

  • Big Prize

    Reagan Jennings, 11, took this bird on the opening day of spring turkey season. The bird weighed 25 pounds, had an 11-inch beard and 1 1/8-inch spurs.Reagan Jennings, 11, took this bird on the opening day of spring turkey season. The bird weighed 25 pounds, had an 11-inch beard and 1 1/8-inch spurs.

  • Youth hunt a family affair

    Logan Stephens, left, and his brother Dylan, had a big day on April 2, the first day of youth hunt. Both got a good-sized turkey that morning. Logan, 11, took one with an 11-inch beard for his second bird. Dylan, 9, got his first catch, bagging a bird with a 10-inch beard. They got the birds with a 20-gauge shotgun. The family plans to mount the fans, beard and spurs.
     

  • Turkey trifecta for Pendleys

    Nathaniel Pendley, 6, took this gobbler during spring turkey season. It weighed 23 pounds and had one-inch spurs.

    Micheala Pendley, 8, got this jake, her first turkey, during the spring hunting season.

    Hunter Pendley, 10, got his second turkey, a jake, during youth hunt season. They are the children of Michael and Cheryl Pendley.
     

  • Great start to turkey season

    Turkey season opened with a bang this season for several of the Lilly clan.

  • Spring hunting, fishing prizes

    Several Anderson County residents have had big catches in the spring hunting and fishing seasons.

  • Spring turkey hunt looks promising

    When Kentucky’s spring wild turkey season opens April 16, hunters should get plenty of opportunities to match wits with the older, experienced gobblers that make the sport so challenging and exciting.

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