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- The human factor afield: Lessons on friendship taken from this past hunting seasonLast season, my hunting group had a hiccup. Wait, let me stop right there. I hate euphemisms. It wasn’t a “hiccup.” It was a conflict. Like many Outdoor N...
- Read the water to catch Ohio’s hybrid stripersHybrid stripers in rivers are not oriented to cover as much as they use the fluid dynamics of flowing water to their advantage. They seek specific flow patterns...
- Fish the ‘pocket’ water: Where overlooked runs hold big trout potentialStream trout anglers are largely creatures of habit. I say largely because there are exceptions to every rule. Still, the stream trout anglers I’ve fished wit...
- Great memories made fishing, railroading on Pennsylvania’s Pine Creek in the 1970sSome of my favorite memories fishing in northern Pennsylvania and southern New York are along Pine Creek and the Genesee River in the 1970s using a now-defunct ...
- Kentucky project aimed at bigger bass makes key findingBigger bass that are more aggressive in chasing an angler’s plastic worm from one end of the lake to the other? Roughly 96.2% of Illinois fishermen responded,...
- Minnesota elementary teacher and his students strengthen wood duck habitatAfter the first few years, life caught up to Roeker and couldn’t commit the time to it as he was beginning his family and coaching. Five years ago, he brought...
- Kristin Ojaniemi: Snowmobiles help access big fish in backwoods lakesWhat I enjoy the most about ice fishing is how accessible it is, or so I thought. You don’t really need a ton of gear – a sled, auger, a bucket to double as...
- Spring is a great time to target all Ohio’s Muskingum River has to offerThe Muskingum River watershed circulates the life blood of eastern Ohio, a massive 8,051 square miles, through all or part of 27 counties, the major cities of A...
- Illinois hunters don’t waste time during the spring turkey seasonAn interesting but not surprising fact about the Illinois spring turkey season: Hunters don’t like to mess around. The first day of the first-season segment h...
- Illinois’ statewide fishing report on March 27, 2026April fishing set up by plenty of late March action. Here’s a look at the Illinois fishing report on March 27, 2026. The post Illinois’ statewide fishing re...
- Dan Small Outdoors Radio: Show 2113Habitat advice from an exhibitor at the Open Season Sportsman’s Expo, going on this weekend at Kalahari Resort and Conference Center in Wisconsin Dells. New s...
- Episode 93 — New York’s Antlerless Deer ProposalsNew York’s Department of Environmental Conservation recently proposed four regulation changes to encourage hunters in the state to shoot more antlerless deer....
- Wisconsin Mixed Bag: April trout season opener kicks in this yearThe Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) reminds anglers that the 2026-27 inland trout season will open on Saturday, April 4 and run through Oct. 15,...
- Bonus turkey tag fiasco hangs Wisconsin hunters out to dryTurkey hunters took it on the chin once again when they tried to buy a bonus tag for Wisconsin’s spring hunt, only to see their order eliminated by the Depart...
- Wisconsin NRB poses questions on DNR license fee increasesWhile most of the focus falls on Wisconsin DNR fish and wildlife questions or Conservation Congress advisory questions during the annual spring fish and game he...