Deer-gun season totals
Hunters harvested 71,932 whitetail deer during the 2022 gun week that concluded on Sunday, Dec. 4. In 2021, the weeklong number was 70,381. Deer gun season opens again for the weekend of Dec. 17-18.
During the deer gun week, hunters checked 26,355 bucks (37 percent of the harvest), 36,546 does (51%), and 7,983 button bucks (11 percent). Bucks that had already shed their antlers or bucks with antlers less than 3 inches in length accounted for 1% of deer taken (1,048). The top 10 counties for deer taken during the week of gun season were: Coshocton (2,457), Muskingum (2,326), Tuscarawas (2,321), Ashtabula (1,987), Knox (1,909), Carroll (1,902), Guernsey (1,848), Licking (1,729), Washington (1,628), and Holmes (1,521). Coshocton County also led the state in 2021 with 2,403 deer checked.
Thus far in the 2022 deer season, 164,589 deer have been checked by archery and gun hunters. Archery hunters have taken 82,729 of those deer (50%). Youth hunters harvested 9,515 deer during the youth gun weekend, Nov. 19-20. This year, 376,617 deer permits have been sold through Sunday, Dec. 4. Non-residents have purchased 38,109 hunting licenses.
For Ashland, Holmes and Wayne County hunters, the harvest was pretty much spot-on to the three-year average in each county. Holmes County’s total was down 66 from the three-year average, but still over 1,500 deer at 1,521. In Ashland County, the recent deer-gun season harvest was 1,440, up from the average of 1,418. In Wayne County, hunters checked in 858 deer for the week of deer-gun season, just five less than the county’s three-year average.
Trout Unlimited meeting
The Clear Fork River Chapter of Trout Unlimited will meet on Monday, Dec. 12 at 7:15 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church, 621 College Avenue, Wooster (see our website cfrtu.org under the “Events” tab for directions). In addition to meeting in-person, we will continue to provide a Zoom option for those who wish to attend remotely. Everyone who wishes to join this meeting remotely, using your home computer, must send an email message to cfrtu.rsvp@gmail.com. Please indicate that you wish to participate in the Dec12 CFRTU meeting and include your name and email address. In response, you will receive an official “invitation” to the Zoom meeting that will include a link that will take you directly to the meeting on Dec 12.
At the meeting, there will be a discussion of current chapter activities and a raffle of fly fishing equipment. Following this, Tim Cammisa, central Pa. fly fishing and fly tying professional, will present a program via video-link entitled “Successful Strategies to Catch More Trout.” Cammisa will focus on many areas within fly fishing to improve your fishing success. Paying attention to the small details will pay dividends in the long run, and those are discussed, including some of the strategies Tim employs to catch more trout. With topics such as insect identification, reading the water, and employing varying techniques, lots of new information will be shared, leading to greater success on the water.
Details of this and future TU meetings, plus other chapter activities and local fishing reports, can be found on our chapter website at cfrtu.org. All meetings of the Clear Fork River Chapter of Trout Unlimited are open to the public and anyone interested in fishing and cold water fisheries preservation is encouraged to participate. Interested women anglers are especially invited to attend.
Trap shoot
The East Holmes Sportsman’s Association will hold a trap shoot on Saturday, Dec. 31 starting at 8:30 a.m. The club will shoot protectors on two traps and singles on another. Payouts will be meat for the first three hours, then the payback will be money.
The East Holmes Sportsman’s Club is located at 6781 Township Road 310, Millersburg. For more information, cal 330-204-3684 OR 330-521-0874 or visit https://www.facebook.com/eastholmessc.
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