Bob Hodge

• Bob Hodge: Talk of slow turkey season doesn't match the numbers Published 04/21/2012 at 6:44 p.m.

  WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — The four guys sitting in the gun shop on West Main Street were lamenting West Virginia's spring turkey season.

• Bob Hodge: Best-laid plan accounts for turkeys, but not other hunters Published 04/07/2012 at 5:28 p.m.

  NASHVILLE — Sometimes it's hard to explain what goes wrong with a turkey hunt.

• Bob Hodge: No bird in the hand, but some lessons learned while stalking turkey Published 03/31/2012 at 5:12 p.m.

  CARTHAGE — Like beauty, success during turkey season is in the eye of the beholder.

• Bob Hodge: Making black bears much less exotic in East Tennessee is a good thing Published 03/24/2012 at 5:48 p.m.

  Not that long ago, black bears were on the minds of a handful of hunters, tourists in the mountains and Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency biologists basically a native species that was considered exotic.

• Bob Hodge: Taking inventory reveals whether you're stocked for the hunt or the apocalypse Published 03/17/2012 at 10:48 p.m.

  I've decided that it's time to have my own TV show and I'm going to combine two genres into one: It will be part turkey hunting, part doomsday prepping.

• Bob Hodge: Even if you ducked, you didn't miss much Published 02/04/2012 at 4:40 p.m.

  When the story is written about the 2011-12 duck season it's likely not to be a tale with a happy ending.

• Bob Hodge: Fondness for musky outweighed desire for state record Published 01/21/2012 at 6:04 p.m.

  Go to The Fishing Show this afternoon at Chilhowee Park, hang a left inside the door, and you can look at what is likely the biggest muskellunge ever caught in Tennessee.

• Bob Hodge: Finding a lost treasure not as easy as retracing steps Published 01/14/2012 at 7:16 p.m.

  With the deer season over, duck season still going on (if you can call it that), the fishing biting better than could be hoped for and the state legislature still trying to pull the TWRA up by its roots, I'm ...

• Bob Hodge: Boundaries, identification make bagging a red deer tough Published 01/07/2012 at 7:56 p.m.

  Deer season ends today when the sun sets on the youth hunt but not quite.

• Bob Hodge: Crappie condos helping land catch Published 12/17/2011 at 5:40 p.m.

  When Jim Coleman and Micky Stooksbury had a hard time finding crappie on Fort Loudoun Lake they decided to take the guess work out of it and build their own crappie cover.

• TWRC eases restrictions for area hunters Published 05/19/2012 at 10:17 p.m.

  There was good and bad news coming out of the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Commission meeting in Nashville Friday. It was good news if you are a hunter in East Tennessee, bad news if you're a deer or a bear.

• Bob Hodge: Home-lake advantage means high expectations for DeFoe Published 04/28/2012 at 7:52 p.m.

  When Ott DeFoe was in high school, he would be on Douglas Lake two or three nights a week during the summer, fishing wildcat bass tournaments.

• Bob Hodge: Deer season good in an odd kind of way Published 12/31/2011 at 5:12 p.m.

  SPRING CITY — If you're a deer hunter who is age 16 or younger and you haven't filled a tag, there's a whole weekend of hunting left.

• Bob Hodge: Make sure you know what you are shooting at — it could save a life Published 12/03/2011 at 8:08 p.m.

  Somewhere on the internet, I think it was under "Yahoo Answers" there was a statistical question about hunting accidents and wearing blaze orange.

• Bob Hodge: Sweetwater's Paul Watson has seen plenty of changes in hunting Published 11/12/2011 at 5:49 p.m.

  The next time a buddy starts complaining about spending a morning in the woods without seeing any deer tell him to go talk to Paul Watson.

• Bob Hodge: Some distance offers better perspective on policies Published 09/18/2011 at 4 a.m.

  SHERIDAN, Wyoming — OK, I admit that driving through the Big Horn National Park isn't the best way to keep up with the goings on of the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Commission, but it does offer some perspective.

• Bob Hodge: Oak tree on Beaver Creek helped yield plenty of fish, game, good memories Published 09/03/2011 at 6 p.m.

  Dove season opened Thursday. So did goose season. Wood duck season opens next Saturday.

• Bob Hodge: Duck hunting plan not a problem; hogs not so much Published 08/28/2011 at 9:15 p.m.

  Ducks and hogs are a bizarre mix, but that was the theme when the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Commission met Wednesday and Thursday in Kingsport.

• Bob Hodge: TWRA hopes walleye catch on Published 06/19/2011 at midnight

  Starting about November a lot of fishermen in East Tennessee forget about bass and crappie and everything else and start thinking about sauger. In fact, so many of them think about sauger and have gotten so good at catching sauger ...

• No surprises for 2011-12 hunting season Published 05/22/2011 at midnight

  The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Commission set the 2011-2012 hunting seasons Friday with little drama, few objections and some fairly significant changes.

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