Here’s what’s worth reading today, Thursday, June 6, 2019:
Boat captain arrested for allegedly threatening, holding passengers hostage during fishing trip: A Florida charter captain was arrested for boating under the influence of alcohol after reportedly threatening and holding his passengers hostage while on a 12-hour fishing trip over the weekend. The captain was also allegedly under the influence of drugs during the trip. Captain Mark Bailey, 36, was hired by Carlo Lopeparo, 35, for a day-long fishing excursion in Sarasota on Sunday. Lopeparo paid $2,000 for the trip and brought his friends and family.
Video shows man using live opossum as fishing bait, woman says: It’s a video so disturbing we can’t show it to you. When Kaelyn Henderson, of Friendswood, received it from her cousin, 28-year-old Blake Morecraft, of Dickinson, she said she knew exactly what to do. “I called the police shortly after that,” she said. Henderson called the police because the video shows a young opossum with a large hook inserted into its back. At one point, the video shows the opossum flailing as it is being dangled from the hook. In another image, you can see the animal being pulled across the floor by the line attached to the hook.
.@God_Son80's daughter is a baby deer whisperer 😱🦌 pic.twitter.com/XPoYB6TcSJ
— Cleveland Browns (@Browns) June 3, 2019
Jarvis Landry’s daughter strikes up friendship with baby deer: This video of Jarvis Landry’s daughter meeting a baby deer is the cutest video you will see all day.. maybe even all year! The Cleveland Browns star wide receiver was out in the yard one morning when a baby deer befriended his daughter while the two played a game of peekaboo from behind a recycling container. The video immediately went viral on social media, gaining nearly 2 million views on Instagram and even a mention on “The Today Show” on NBC.
No round chambered: Hunter and guide defenseless against grizzly bear attack: A bear attack in Wyoming last year strongly illustrates the need for folks to keep firearms ready to function at a moment’s notice — and this means loading a round into the chamber before you even carry it. A Wyoming hunting guide and a hunter from Florida were working on a dead elk when they were attacked by two grizzly bears, a mature sow and her 150-pound cub. Only the guide had a firearm — it was an archery hunt — but he was not wearing the gun at the time of the attack. He’d taken off his chest holster and shirt while dressing out a dead elk.
Trump administration announces plans to expand hunting and fishing access in wildlife refuges: The Trump administration announced a plan Wednesday to expand access even further to protected federal lands for hunting and fishing. The plan seeks to increase access across 1.4 million acres of public land in 74 national wildlife refuges and 15 national fish hatcheries. The department also plans to update hunting and fishing regulations at refuges across the U.S. to more closely match state regulations, U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt said in a statement on Wednesday.
Rangers: Man drowned after getting entangled in fishing line: The Whitehall man who died on Lake Champlain this past week drowned after becoming entangled in fishing line, the state Department of Environmental Conservation said Tuesday. Four men were fishing in the lake’s South Bay near Dresden, Washington County, on Friday, May 31, when their boat capsized at about 8 p.m., the DEC said. Three of the men swam to shore and walked the shoreline for about two hours before they found help, the DEC said.
New hunting adventure proved to be hog wild: Something that had always been on my to-do list was a simple, relatively inexpensive adventure that I could not find the time to try. That hunting trip finally was removed from my bucket list in February. While some dream of an Alaskan moose adventure or trout fishing in New Zealand, one trip I always wanted to experience was a wild hog hunt. To this day I have no idea why that was something that called to me, but I apparently mentioned it enough that my wife finally told me to either do it or quit speaking of it.
Wyoming reels in wolf hunting quotas: Biologists in charge of Canis lupus in Wyoming assessed the fewest wolves since hunting began seven years ago, and in response they are rolling back quotas in almost all areas where the species is carefully managed. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s proposed wolf hunting season for 2019 targets a total of 33 animals, down over 40% from the 58 wolves that were targeted in the state’s trophy-game area one year ago. The goal of the 2019 wolf season remains the same: to strive for 160 wolves in the region Wyoming allows wolves to persist in. In 85% of the Equality State, the large canines continue to be classified as predators that can be killed indiscriminately.
Man shot while hunting turkey in Cohocton: A local hunter was lucky to escape with minor injuries after a hunting trip gone wrong. On Wednesday, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation reported an incident in Cohocton that involved a man being shot by a fellow hunter. On the morning of May 15, Environmental Conservation Police Officer Matthew Baker received a call from Steuben County 911 reporting that one adult male had been admitted to Noyes Memorial Hospital in Dansville with a gunshot wound suffered while turkey hunting in the town of Cohocton.
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