Recently I was asked to present a program about park history. History… I love it and I love to dig through the vintage park photos. So for me this wasn’t work at all but fun. For this presentation, I wanted to get some really good vintage photos, some that might not have seen the light […]

This past Labor Day weekend the fish were really biting at Lake Isabella. The weekend kicked off on Friday when we stocked 800 lbs of adult channel catfish. Then with all the rain we got on Friday and Saturday, the water temperature started to fluctuate, which stirred up the fish and made them active on […]

Languedoc, a region in the South of France, is full of lanes lined with London planetrees. Upon first glance, this tree bears a striking resemblance to our American sycamore. The plane’s leaves are somewhat smaller, but the bark has the same distinct white coloration as our sycamore. The London planetree (Platanus x acerifolia) is a […]

Did you know that there are more than 20 times more species of moths than butterflies in Ohio? There are more than 160,000 species of moth worldwide and more than 3,000 of those can be found right here in Ohio. And new species are being discovered and catalogued every year! Only about 1% of moth […]

The angler with the greatest number of points at the end of the six-tournament Bass Series wins “Angler of the Year.” It is a prestigious award, because it requires skill, consistency and versatility against a very talented field of competitors over a five-month period. The series began on a cold windy day in April at […]

Bass fishing in August can be a challenging feat. With the dog days of summer, hot water and fish that have watched lures swim by since March…it isn’t exactly easy! Given a dark rainy day with a little wind, then the fish will eat. Of course anglers rarely get those ideal conditions on tournament day. […]

No one is immune to the beautiful summer evening flash displays of lightning bugs. But there is more to their flash than meets the eye, and their wandering is hardly aimless. Their flash is only the gateway to lives of love, deception and murder. Here are five facts you may not know about lightning bugs. […]

July has come and gone and parents across the city have started their countdown for when school is back in session, but there are still plenty of great fishing events yet to take place this year. In fact, four more are scheduled for later this month. The first event is on August 6, when we host the fifth […]