DSORe eNews S649

VOL: eNews DECEMBER 03, 2011 ISSUE: SHOW #649

• Deer season wrap up
• Ice fishing’s just around the corner

• Jeff heads for the St. Paul Ice Fishing & Winter Sports Show
• Dan is muzzleloader hunting this week

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MIKE OKRAY Former international hunting outfitter shares some humorous hunting adventures from his new book, Once Upon a Time in Camo [Ed. Note: This link will be functional by Tuesday 06 DECEMBER 2011]
PAT KALMERTON Jiffy pro-staffer and partner in Wolfpack Adventures shares some safety tips for early-season ice fishing and reports from the St. Paul Ice Fishing Show
SCOT LUNDQUIST Co-owner of Turtle River Trading Company reports on hunting, ice fishing, snowmobiling and other winter activities in Mercer, Wisconsin
GENE DELLINGER \| Proprietor of D&S Bait reports decent walleye and panfish action on the Madison chain, some walleyes are biting on Lake Wisconsin and early-ice action should be good for panfish on Monona and Mendota

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Preliminary count shows hunters harvested 226,260 deer during the nine-day season

No hunting fatalities recorded for second consecutive year

EDITOR'S ADVISORY: This news release has been updated to reflect that 2011 was the third safest hunting season on record and not the second. A seventh hunting incident has been reported since the original version of this news release was issued.

MADISON – A call around survey of 600-plus deer registration stations all across Wisconsin completed today shows a preliminary harvest total of 226,260 for the just completed nine-day gun deer hunting season, up 3.6 percent from 2010. At the same time, hunters posted the second all around safest season on record.

The nine-day harvest numbers are preliminary and are expected to change before a final report is published in late winter. The total does not include harvest information from the archery, October antlerless gun deer hunt, muzzleloader, December antlerless deer gun hunt or late archery seasons. The preliminary nine-day gun harvest count in 2010 was 218,144 and in 2009 was 201,994.

“Overall participation was good. We had a 3.6 percent increase in deer harvested compared to 2010 and the reports that we’ve been getting in from the field are that in many parts of the state hunters saw more deer,” stated Tom Hauge, wildlife director for the state Department of Natural Resources. “That said, we do know that not everyone got a deer this year, or saw a deer. The herd in parts of the state is still rebounding and that even within counties with higher harvests, deer aren’t distributed evenly.”

A table of county by county harvest (pdf) broken down by DNR region, with a comparison to the 2010 preliminary harvest is available on the DNR Web site.

The preliminary tally showed hunters harvested 102,837 bucks and 123,423 antlerless. This compared to 2010 preliminary harvest figures of 102,121 bucks and 116,160 antlerless.