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- UTV Buyers’ Guide: What do updated lineups in the quad market look like for 2025?Following nine consecutive years of steady growth, the power sports industry scored the all-time record in 2020, when government-mandated isolation boosted dema...
- Midwest Walleye Challenge’s highest catch rate occurred in Illinois, but more participation wantedIllinois’ first cast at a virtual fishing tournament resulted in anglers catching 434 qualifying fish. Hooking fishermen was a little bit tougher. Held March ...
- Dean Bortz: Better bear hunting success expected in Wisconsin over ’23 seasonNo doubt bear hunters are hoping for a poor acorn crop this fall. The super abundant 2023 acorn crop has shouldered much of the blame for a light bear harvest l...
- Good catches can be had for Ohio trout if you know where to fish in the fallAlthough spring is the popular time to go, a fair amount of trout fishing can be had in the fall. Rivers offer opportunity well into the winter. The few harbori...
- North Dakota studying ways to lower bullhead populationsAs a kid growing up in the 1980s, fishing to me was about opportunity. Thankfully, North Dakota’s forefathers had set up most communities near waterways for t...
- Wildlife councils spread positive message on hunting, fishing, but does it work?Michigan and Colorado recognize that the future of hunting and fishing depend on the goodwill of Americans who don’t hunt or fish (and are unlikely to start)....
- Three whitetail food sources bowhunters should scout now in preparation for the September openerThe world of whitetail-hunting advice is dominated by tactics and strategies built around the rut. And why wouldn’t they be? That sweet window that extends fr...
- Dove hunting season a symbolic opener in IllinoisDove hunters in Illinois are shooting half as many birds as they did a decade ago. Does that mean there were more doves flying in 2014? Or were hunters better s...
- Wisconsin’s Chippewa tribes spear 38,832 total walleyes during 2024 seasonTribal spearers from Wisconsin’s six Chippewa tribes across the ceded territory reported a near-record 38,832 walleyes during an extended spring spearing seas...
- Michigan Readers Stories: Young city boy shoots big, farm country buck on first huntTo say that things got exciting last fall when my son and I took my 11-year-old grandson, Colten, on his first ever deer hunt is an understatement! Colten was b...
- Keep your broadheads sharp this seasonAt the start of archery season every fall, most deer hunters (myself included) are crazy with hubris. We take to the deer woods with an almost tangible feeling ...
- Ben Moyer: Pennsylvania must find a solution to simmering tension between wildlife and agricultureLegislation now under consideration in the Pennsylvania Senate rivets overdue notice toward the simmering tension, nationwide, between wildlife management and a...
- Western Upper Peninsula group working to ‘rehab’ deer yardsAn important ingredient to the often tenuous existence of the white-tailed deer in the northern part of its range is what is known as a “deer yard,” often a...
- Michigan Outdoor News Fishing Report – August 16, 2024Nice, big kings are being caught on the Great Lakes. Variety the name of the game on inland lakes. The post Michigan Outdoor News Fishing Report – August 16, ...
- Illinois’ statewide fishing report on Aug. 16, 2024Summer blues: variety of species remain in deep water. A look at the Illinois fishing report on Aug. 16, 2024. The post Illinois’ statewide fishing report on ...