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Gene Mueller was a reporter for The Washington Times.

Articles by Gene Mueller

Gene Mueller: Proposed lead ban causes stir

The American Sportfishing Association, an Alexandria-based trade group, isn't happy with an arbitrary decision by the National Park Service that would ban the use of lead components in fishing tackle in all national parks by 2010. The ban also would include lead component ammunition used by hunters.

March 18, 2009

Gene Mueller: Worth plenty of bucks

How big is the market for live, trophy-sized deer or even just deer antlers? Most people wouldn't give a wooden nickel for a set of deer horns, but ask the Maryland Natural Resources Police how they feel about the subject. There's money in them thar hardened tines of calcium and assorted other minerals.

March 15, 2009

Gene Mueller: Yellow perch lead the way

Reports of exceptional yellow perch catches are arriving daily, and at the head of the list is the Allens Fresh area of the Wicomico River in Maryland's Charles County.

March 12, 2009

Gene Mueller: Spring cleaning coming April 4

As a Charles County resident who has adopted the road he lives on so he can clean up after human pigs who throw trash from their car windows, I hope you will understand my passion for wanting a clean environment and helping organizations that echo those feelings.

March 11, 2009

MUELLER: Arizona has all walks of nature

On the way to the Sonoran Desert, I found a dead coyote lying crumpled alongside Interstate 10, the obvious victim of trucking and automobile traffic that zips along at 75 and 80 mph

March 8, 2009

GENE MUELLER: Yellow perch run may come this weekend

As local temperatures climb, here's betting that a yellow perch run will be under way this weekend. The annual spawning run of the perch is overdue, and the roe-laden females will hold on to their eggs only so long.

March 5, 2009

GENE MUELLER: Geese now target of spring hunting

Never mind that the cottontail rabbit hunting season remains open through Feb. 28 in Maryland and Virginia or that the gray squirrel hunt can continue until the end of the month in Maryland.

February 11, 2009

GENE MUELLER: Opinions differ on Dyke Marsh group’s stance

Not every reader was happy with my Jan. 7 column about a Northern Virginia neighborhood group that hopes to end all duck hunting along a Potomac River section because it fears the hunters pose a danger to hikers and visitors.

February 8, 2009

GENE MUELLER: Brief warmup proves an effective lure

As soon as the ice had melted on boat ramps along the upper tidal Potomac River earlier this week, you could spot the occupants of bass boats and aluminum flat-bottoms casting lures or baits in search of yellow perch, crappies, catfish or bass in the feeder creeks and the main body.

February 5, 2009

GENE MUELLER: Squirrel hunting a winter tradition

I'm a squirrel hunter, and I offer no apologies to people who feed those that are half-tame in municipal parks, or to animal rights advocates who know little or nothing about hunting.

February 1, 2009

Gene Mueller: Yellow perch limits doubled

Although most of Maryland's recreational anglers wanted tighter restrictions on the commercial take of their favorite late-winter fish, the yellow perch, the state Department of Natural Resources has decided to increase the daily recreational creel limit from five to 10 fish a day. The new regulation is now in effect.

January 28, 2009

GENE MUELLER: Virginia a kingpin on Atlantic Coast

Some years ago, a number of top-rated professional tournament fishermen were asked how they rated the Mid-Atlantic states as concerned their favorite species, the largemouth bass. Only Maryland's tidal Potomac River managed to get a kindly mention, but as far as Virginia was concerned, these national bass-fishing stars said they would have no trouble rating Virginia among the top five or six in the nation.

January 25, 2009