Hunting News
Before 2025
- Wind, snow, sleet or rain don’t stop turkeys from being turkeysWhen mating season arrives for wild turkeys, harsh weather does little to halt their spring breeding activity. When spring gobbler season opened in Pennsy...
- Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission changes training to keep officersAttrition is expected with each class of cadets going through the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission’s Waterways Conservation Officers training program. ...
- Springtime walleye fishing sign: jigs, jigs, jigsSpring is officially in full swing. After a winter that seemed it would never end, it’s great to be back in a boat. For many of us in the Midwest, this time o...
- A day afield with Gary Clancy: turkey lessons learned and passed alongTen years ago on a crisp April morning, my father-in-law, Gary Clancy, and I were rummaging through his old “huntin’ shed,” methodically tracking down som...
- Minnesota’s Lake Pepin isn’t a preferred opener option, but maybe it should beAlthough it’s one of the Minnesota DNR-managed 10 large lakes, Lake Pepin likely doesn’t top the list for most walleye anglers as a primo destination for th...
- Ohio DNR culls 132 more deer in the CWD zone as part of targeted removal effortsThere’s good news from the Chronic Wasting Disease Surveillance Area (DSA) in Marion, Hardin and Wyandot counties. “I can’t say the disease is spreading t...
- A look at some top tactics for bass in the grassUp north, anglers refer to vegetation as weeds or weedbeds. Down south, and increasingly across the bass belt, anglers generically call all weedbeds “grass....
- Somewhere in time with Joan Wulff, the First Lady of fly fishingLet me begin by saying that Joan Wulff has never been able to teach me how to double-haul correctly. This was certainly not Joan’s fault. We all know that Joa...
- Episode 434 – Ice-out status, late-season turkey talk, mallard telemetry study, morels, and Rock-n-Roll HOF chatterWhat’s the status of ice-out as we barrel down toward the May 13 Minnesota Fishing Opener? Managing Editor and Publisher Rob Drieslein plus Editor Tim ...
- Changes likely coming for Ohio grouse huntDuring a meeting of the Ohio Wildlife Council in mid-April, the council received a proposal to reduce the ruffed grouse season hunting dates and open counties d...
- No new counties with CWD in wild deer herd found in Michigan’s 2022 samplingTesting for chronic wasting disease in deer last year did not reveal any new outbreaks in southern Michigan or the Upper Peninsula. Michigan Department of...
- Southern Illinois University team ‘glued’ to studying beaver movements in stateBecause beavers are considered “ecosystem engineers,” understanding how they move and what influences their movements in Illinois is valuable information fo...
- Minnesota’s Kyle Soltis lives life to the fullest out-of-doors during long battle with cancerKyle Soltis, 34, is a father, husband, son, brother, and friend. He takes these responsibilities seriously and tries to do everything he can to put a smile on s...
- Bats slowly rebounding at some spots in PennsylvaniaWhite-nose syndrome decimated local bat populations when it showed up in the state in 2008 and began killing cave bats in 2009. Now, more than a dozen yea...
- Plans released for 2023 Okoboji Blue Water Festival, Iowa’s foremost clean-water eventDon’t miss this date: Saturday, August 12. That’s the day for the eighth annual Okoboji Blue Water Festival (OBWF), the foremost clean water event in the st...