By Chad Love

Missouri deer hunters, it's time to grab your air rifle, handgun or crossbow and head to the woods because the Show Me state's "alternative methods" deer season is now underway.

From this story on ky3.com:
It's called Missouri's alternative methods deer hunting season. It runs from now through Christmas Day. More hunters are hitting the woods with a historical game plan. Hunters have used black-powder muzzleloader rifles for years, but the Department of Conservation says there was an increase in people interested in hunting with handguns and crossbows. They wanted to expand opportunities to use those tools without hurting the deer population. If hunters want to be a little more traditional, they can use longbows or even a tool called an atlatl which is like a spear. Officials say hunters like the historical aspect as well as the challenge.

By Chad Love

A Kansas man claims that he has invented the world's first computerized fishing rod that tells you when a fish is biting.

From this story on kake.com:
It is being called the world's first "smart" fishing pole and the inventor lives in Kansas. "It took a long time to get to the point where we can actually say, 'We have the only, world's first computerized fishing [pole],'" said Ed Hope. 

By Chad Love

Delaware's 34-year-old saltwater striped bass record is now history after a surf fisherman hauled in a 52-pound striper this weekend.

From this story on capegazette.com: 
The Holy Grail of Delaware saltwater fishing has been passed. On Saturday, Ben Smith, fishing a chunk of fresh bunker in the surf at Three Rs Road, connected with a 52-pound rockfish and took over the Delaware State Record for the species. The previous record was set in 1978 by Betty Rosen and weighed 51 pounds, eight ounces. That fish was caught from the south jetty at Indian River Inlet.

By Chad Love

A massive non-typical whitetail deer arrowed by an Oklahoma woman may be the largest buck ever taken by a female bowhunter in the Sooner State.

From this story on newsok.com:
Linet Navarro of Chandler likes to bake cakes and kill deer. On Nov. 8, Navarro killed the biggest whitetail of her life and perhaps the largest ever by a woman with a bow in Oklahoma. Her non-typical buck has a net green score of 175 2/8. A check of the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation's Cy Curtis records — a listing of big deer killed by Oklahoma hunters — show that larger non-typical bucks have been killed by female hunters with a gun, although it appears none have with a bow. The Wildlife Department does not distinguish between male and female hunters in the Cy Curtis record book. “Maybe they should,” Navarro said. “They could start it this year.”