Outdoors

By Lee McClellan

Ky. Dept. of Fish & Wildlife Resources

You hear about Lake St. Clair, Mille Lacs, Lake Erie and the upper Mississippi River as waters that produce the best smallmouth fishing in the United States.

As far as catching numbers of smallmouth with many of those larger than 4 pounds, you can’t argue with the sentiment. However, to catch the largest specimens in the world, you need to fish in Kentucky and Tennessee.

Online registration for Kentucky’s hunter education programs is now statewide, according to a news release.

It appears we may have survived a rather unusually long and cold winter here in the Bluegrass State. Hopefully the latest thawing out will last and bring us much greener days ahead as the temperatures rise and the sun shines.

The warmer temperatures have certainly thawed out some of God’s smellier creatures. Anybody seen any skunks? I’ve had several folks asking me about the number of skunks they’ve seen killed on the roads lately.

The weather was fine for hunting in late December during the Anderson County Sportsman’s Club’s fourth youth deer hunt held Dec. 28-29, according to Fish and Wildlife Officer Jason Wells.

Any young hunters, ages 10-15 years old, who were unsuccessful in harvesting a deer during the fall youth hunt in October were invited to take a deer in December, Wells said.