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Map of USA with Oklahoma highlighted (Photo credit: Wikipedia) CENTRAL Arcadia : November 13. Elevation normal, water 46 and murky. All fishing fair to good. Report submitted by Sheila Hutton, gate attendant. Draper : December 2. Elevation below normal, water clear. All fishing slow. Report submitted by Tony Woodruff, game warden stationed in Cleveland County. Hefner : December 3. Elevation dropping, water 44-47 and clear. Largemouth bass slow. Smallmouth bass slow. White bass and striped bass hybrids good on white grubs and jigs at 12-25 ft. along the dam. Channel and blue catfish fair on cut bait along the dam. Crappie good on minnows and jigs at 20-24 ft. along the dam. Walleye slow on grubs at 8-12 ft. along the dam. Report submitted by Lucky Lure Tackle. Overholser : December 3. Elevation normal, water 49 and clear. Crappie and white bass fair on bright colored artificial lures at the west pier. Catfish slow to fair on cut shad. Report submitted by Jarrod Dav...

Tim Blackwell caught a nice 4.6 pound rainbow trout at Lake Pawhuska. CENTRAL Hefner : November 25. Elevation dropping, water 45-48 and clear. Largemouth and smallmouth bass fair on crankbaits. White bass fair on 8-15 ft. at the dam. Striped bass hybrids fair on white grubs at 8-15 ft. along the dam. Channel and blue catfish good on cut bait along the dam. Crappie fair on minnows and white jigs at 20-24 ft. around docks and the dam. Walleye fair on grubs at 8-12 ft. along the dam. Report submitted by Lucky Lure Tackle. Overholser : November 25. Elevation normal, water 38 and clear to murky. All fishing slow. Report submitted by Jarrod Davis, game warden stationed in Oklahoma and Canadian counties. Wes Watkins : November 25. All fishing slow. Report submitted by Mike France, game warden stationed in Pottawatomie County. NORTHEAST Birch : November 25. All fishing slow. Report submitted by David Clay, game warden stationed in Osage County. Copan : November 26. Elevat...

Image via Wikipedia The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today the launch of a new virtual book club aiming to engage and inspire readers to connect with the outdoors and nature. America’s Wild Read will feature noted ecologist E.O. Wilson’s first novel Anthill, the story of a boy whose Huck Finn-inspired summer in rural Alabama teaches him deeper understandings of nature and its most ruthless predators. Readers will also share insights on two related essays: Thinking Like a Mountain by Aldo Leopold, an early founder of the land conservation movement, and Once and Future Land Ethic, by Dr. Curt Meine, senior fellow at the Aldo Leopold Foundation. Both essays can be accessed online at   http://AmericasWildlife.org/ WildRead . The online discussions of the essays and Anthill will begin on May 8, 2011, and May 22, 2011, respectively. Conservation writers Curt Meine and Will Stolzenburg (author of Where the Wild Things Were) and other scholars, poets, and even ...