Hunting News
Today
- Spider chain loaded with pickling-sized pike in Wisconsin’s Sawyer CountyThe DNR Hayward fisheries team ran a netting survey on Spider Lake, as well as Little Spider, Clear, Fawn and North, from April 2-25, 2024, followed by an elect...
- Wisconsin’s Outdoor CalendarA look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Wisconsin published in the April 4, 2025, edition of Outdoor News. The post Wisconsin’s Outdoor Calenda...
- Wisconsin Cuffs & Collars: Poaching case from 2023 results in criminal convictionsWisconsin cuffs and collars are field reports from DNR wardens. These reports are from the April 4, 2025, edition of Outdoor News. The post Wisconsin Cuffs & Co...
- Wisconsin Letters to the Editor: If ‘this,’ then why not have ‘that?’Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the April 4, 2025, edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News. The post Wisconsin Letters to the Editor: If ‘this,...
- Minnesota ‘wood butcher’ creates hand-checkered gunstocks that are both beautiful and functionalEvan Koch calls himself a “wood butcher” on Instagram, but he wields chisels with world-class skill to craft, carve, and checker gunstocks for high-end rifl...
- WI Daily Update: Minnesota’s Easton Fothergill wins 2025 Bassmaster ClassicMinnesota native Easton Fothergill had quite a personal comeback over the last two years to win the 2025 Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Classic on March 23. Listen h...
- Latest federal bill to delist wolves gets a hearingA former Wisconsin DNR furbearer and large carnivore biologist called the Great Lakes Region wolf population fully recovered – and said that recovery occurred...
- Commentary: It’s time to establish a hunting season for Wisconsin’s sandhill cranesIf you want to know what’s happening in rural America, ask a farmer. Right now, if you ask Wisconsin’s corn growers and potato producers, they’ll tell you...
- Understand the four stages of river walleyes to catch more fish this springIf you live anywhere close to a river that has walleyes, you probably can’t wait to get the fishing season started. River walleye behavior in early spring is ...
- New York NWTF chapter celebrates 50 years of boosting big birdsA 50th anniversary of anything is a big deal, and it was just that when the New York state chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation celebrated 50 years of...
- Hunters Feeding Illinois provided 97,000 venison meals during 2024-25 seasonNumbers just released by the state’s newest venison donation network puts perspective on the impact of deer hunting in Illinois. During the 2024-25 season, Hu...
- MN Daily Update: Minnesota’s Easton Fothergill wins 2025 Bassmaster ClassicMinnesota native Easton Fothergill had quite a personal comeback over the last two years to win the 2025 Bass Pro Shops Bassmaster Classic on March 23. Listen h...
Yesterday
- Steve McComas: March madness happens in Minnesota lakesMarch is a big month for college basketball tournament action. Turns out, Minnesota lakes have their own action on a number of levels as well. Here are some key...
- Commentary: New report on being prepared in case CWD ever ‘spills over’When it comes to chronic wasting disease (CWD), it’s hard to be optimistic. Bad news stories follow one after the other. In fact, after over 50 years of cauti...
- Plea bargains possible in large deer poaching case from WisconsinJessica Jill Kroening, 36, of West Bend (formerly of Brownsville), the adult female suspect in a long-running three-county deer poaching case in southeast ...