Hook & Bulletin

Welcome to Idaho Fish and Game’s Hook and Bulletin podcast—your weekly news roundup of hunting, fishing, trapping, and conservation stories from around the Gem State. This week, we’re talking about what to do if a bat enters your home, a reminder for the capped elk zone tag sale, a new state record lake trout, and diving into the third year of Turkey Tracker. Hosted by Fish and Game’s Public Infor...

Welcome to Idaho Fish and Game’s Hook and Bulletin podcast—your weekly news roundup of hunting, fishing, trapping, and conservation stories from around the Gem State. This week, we’re talking about controlled hunt results, a black bear gets relocated from a Nampa neighborhood, a couple of pollinator events coming up in Pocatello, and why drought and heat can be a bad combination for Idaho’s fisher...

Welcome to Idaho Fish and Game’s Hook and Bulletin podcast—your weekly news roundup of hunting, fishing, trapping, and conservation stories from around the Gem State. This week, we’re talking about 10 tips for taking your kids fishing, why biologists are concerned by the increasing numbers of walleye in the lower Snake River, Super Hunt results, and Free Fishing Day in Idaho. Hosted by Fish and Ga...

Welcome to Idaho Fish and Game’s Hook and Bulletin podcast—your weekly news roundup of hunting, fishing, trapping, and conservation stories from around the Gem State. This week, we’re talking about a Chinook salmon closure, a hunter in East Idaho shoots a grizzly bear in self-defense, what to do when you catch a tagged fish, and a few pointers to help find the perfect backcountry creekside fishing...

Welcome to Idaho Fish and Game’s Hook and Bulletin podcast—your weekly news roundup of hunting, fishing, trapping, and conservation stories from around the Gem State. This week, we’re talking about $280,000 earmarked for improving Idaho’s public shooting ranges, controlled hunt results for moose, sheep, and goat, why being a steelhead ain’t easy, and moving 34 elk up to the Panhandle Region. Hoste...

Welcome to Idaho Fish and Game’s Hook and Bulletin podcast—your weekly news roundup of hunting, fishing, trapping, and conservation stories from around the Gem State. This week, we’re talking about controlled hunt applications, taking advantage of Fish and Game’s numerous boating access sites, a new state catch-and-release record for one lucky burbot angler in North Idaho, and baby wildlife season...

Welcome to Idaho Fish and Game’s Hook and Bulletin podcast—your weekly news roundup of hunting, fishing, trapping, and conservation stories from around the Gem State. This week, we’re talking about e-tagging salmon and steelhead, some early-season fishing opportunities coming to Southwest Idaho ponds, a poaching case coming out of Farragut State Park, and a deep dive into last year’s deer and elk...

Welcome to Idaho Fish and Game’s Hook and Bulletin podcast—your weekly news roundup of hunting, fishing, trapping, and conservation stories from around the Gem State. This week, we’re talking about a fisher reintroduction project in the Panhandle, why this time of year is the best time to go after fat bass, ground-based cameras showing promise for measuring mule deer fawn ratios, and Fish and Game...

Welcome to Idaho Fish and Game’s Hook and Bulletin podcast—your weekly news roundup of hunting, fishing, trapping, and conservation stories from around the Gem State. This week, we’re talking about spring Chinook seasons, a prescribed burn at Market Lake WMA, some upcoming hunter and bowhunter ed courses popping up in Buhl, and a walleye update coming out of the Magic Valley Region. Hosted by Fish...

Welcome to Idaho Fish and Game’s Hook and Bulletin podcast—your weekly news roundup of hunting, fishing, trapping, and conservation stories from around the Gem State. Listen to the full recap of the March 25, 2026 Idaho Fish and Game Commission Meeting in Boise. You can also rewatch the March 2026 commission meeting on our YouTube channel.  IN THIS EPISODE (0:00:00) - Opening Comments (0:00:44) -...

Welcome to Idaho Fish and Game’s Hook and Bulletin podcast—your weekly news roundup of hunting, fishing, trapping, and conservation stories from around the Gem State. This week, we’re talking about another Idaho state record fish, an upcoming Commission meeting, shed hunting ethics, and a quick look at how the state’s mule deer fawns and elk calves have fared so far this winter. Hosted by Fish and...

Welcome to Idaho Fish and Game’s Hook and Bulletin podcast—your weekly news roundup of hunting, fishing, trapping, and conservation stories from around the Gem State. This week, we’re talking about one Coeur d’Alene man’s sentence for illegally killing multiple big game animals, just what the heck that huge structure beneath the Lewiston-Clarkston Bridge is, early-season fishing at Hagerman WMA, a...

Welcome to Idaho Fish and Game’s Hook and Bulletin podcast—your weekly news roundup of hunting, fishing, trapping, and conservation stories from around the Gem State. This week, we’re talking about migratory game bird season setting proposals, 10 cool facts about Idaho hatcheries, supporting elk recovery with targeted wolf management actions in Unit 4, and how you can give back to Idaho’s wild cri...

Welcome to Idaho Fish and Game’s Hook and Bulletin podcast—your weekly news roundup of hunting, fishing, trapping, and conservation stories from around the Gem State. This week, we’re talking about Kootenai leopards, a couple wildlife crime convictions up in North Idaho, draw results from the second nonresident tag drawing, and flying California bighorn sheep into the Jacks Creek Wilderness. Hoste...

Welcome to Idaho Fish and Game’s Hook and Bulletin podcast—your weekly news roundup of hunting, fishing, trapping, and conservation stories from around the Gem State. This week, we’re talking about three separate deer poaching incidents in southwest Idaho, spring/summer chinook season proposals, why you should keep your eyes peeled for coyotes this time of year, and a recent land sale that will re...

Welcome to Idaho Fish and Game’s Hook and Bulletin podcast—your weekly news roundup of hunting, fishing, trapping, and conservation stories from around the Gem State. This week, we’re talking about spring/summer Chinook open houses, the second application period for nonresident general season deer/elk tags, a new property acquisition expands Tex Creek WMA by 280 acres, and how one Henrys Lake angl...

Welcome to Idaho Fish and Game’s Hook and Bulletin podcast—your weekly news roundup of hunting, fishing, trapping, and conservation stories from around the Gem State. This week, we’re talking about spring turkey controlled hunts, North Idaho elk management, coyotes, and a new state record rainbow trout out of Dworshak Reservoir. Hosted by Fish and Game’s Public Information Specialist Connor Jay Li...

Welcome to Idaho Fish and Game’s Hook and Bulletin podcast—your weekly news roundup of hunting, fishing, trapping, and conservation stories from around the Gem State. This week, we’re talking about winter stream fishing, a recap of the Jan. 15 Commission meeting, a Southwest Idaho bighorn sheep herd pneumonia outbreak, and a plan to reduce agriculture damage from elk herd on private land in Unit 3...

Welcome to Idaho Fish and Game’s Hook and Bulletin podcast—your weekly news roundup of hunting, fishing, trapping, and conservation stories from around the Gem State. This week, we’re talking about what happens when you feed backyard deer and elk, the deadline for purchasing your nonresident tags from this year’s draw, a shocking discovery in Island Park Reservoir, here’s how Fish and Game proposa...

Welcome to Idaho Fish and Game’s Hook and Bulletin podcast—your weekly news roundup of hunting, fishing, trapping, and conservation stories from around the Gem State. This week, we’re talking about a bighorn sheep pneumonia outbreak in Southwest Idaho, the proper way to feed birds in your backyard, how to be a 'Good Neighbor,' and what the heck do white-tailed deer, beavers, and loggers all have i...

Welcome to Idaho Fish and Game’s Hook and Bulletin podcast—your weekly news roundup of hunting, fishing, trapping, and conservation stories from around the Gem State. This week, we’re talking about two Washingtonians getting charged for poaching a bull moose, keeping a close eye on the highways this time of year, fish-carrying llamas, and giving the gift of the outdoors. Hosted by Fish and Game’s...

Welcome to Idaho Fish and Game’s Hook and Bulletin podcast—your weekly news roundup of hunting, fishing, trapping, and conservation stories from around the Gem State. This week, we’re talking about largemouth bass in Coeur d’Alene’s Chain Lakes, why we stock sterile fish, some upcoming flight surveys in various parts of the state, and three small game species that’ll help fill the gaps in your fre...

Welcome to Idaho Fish and Game’s Hook and Bulletin podcast—your weekly news roundup of hunting, fishing, trapping, and conservation stories from around the Gem State. This week, we’re talking about a bighorn sheep shot and left to waste near Riggins, some interesting findings from a North Idaho check station, an opportunity to comment on Idaho Fish and Game’s new Draft Strategic Plan, and Teton Ca...

Welcome to Idaho Fish and Game’s Hook and Bulletin podcast—your weekly news roundup of hunting, fishing, trapping, and conservation stories from around the Gem State. This week, we’re talking about kokanee fingerlings, changes to muzzleloader elk seasons in the Palouse and Dworshak zones, a cool collaborative juniper removal project in the Magic Valley Region, and waterfowl hunting on a budget. Ho...

Welcome to Idaho Fish and Game’s Hook and Bulletin podcast—your weekly news roundup of hunting, fishing, trapping, and conservation stories from around the Gem State. Listen to the full recap of the November 20, 2025 Idaho Fish and Game Commission Meeting in Lewiston. You can also rewatch the November 2025 commission meeting on our YouTube channel. IN THIS EPISODE (00:00:00) - Opening Comments (00...