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Happy New Year from Walton Outdoors

May your new year be filled with prosperity and new growth About resurrection fern: Resurrection fern (Polypodium polypodioides) is an epiphyte that grows attached to branches of forest trees and sometimes upon rocks or dry ground. It is a common sight throughout Walton County and often found growing on the live oaks in our region. This fern’s long thin rhizomes grow creeping along narrow cracks or in the furrows of the host tree’s bark.  They are about 6 in. (15...

Walton County fishing and hunting report for Dec. 15

Speckled trout catches through the roof in the bay Bay: Abundance of speckled trout being caught with light colored Zoom tiny flukes and light colored super flukes. Some folks catching 20 or more trout. Some redfish being caught. Fresh: Mostly crappie being caught in the river. Danny Copeland wants to remind folks that the resident shoreline license is free. Come on by! Click here for best times Hunting: Early signs of deer rut, but nothing much. General gun season open...

December’s traditions include holiday hunting

Outta The Woods by Tony Young There’s finally a chill and a certain festiveness in the air as most of us try to take time off from work to enjoy spending quality time with family and friends and reflect on the passing year.  Children will be out of school on winter break soon, and while the holiday season is upon us, so are several traditional hunting opportunities. The second phase of waterfowl and coot season comes in statewide Dec. 11...

Sandhill cranes migrate to North Walton County

Winter visitors a welcome sight for local bird lovers Clara Pittman of North Walton County looks forward to the special wintering guests she enjoys watching arrive in late fall. For the last five years, sandhill cranes have been migrating to the wetlands near her home just south of Lake Jackson in North Walton. Typically arriving in mid-December and staying until mid-March, the cranes are a welcome sight, and have been flocking to the area in large numbers. “I have seen...