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- Celebrating 100 years of the Upper Mississippi River Wildlife and Fish RefugeDrazkowski grew up in Winona, exploring the federal refuge with a fervor and curiosity nurtured by his father and grandfather that has never relented. The post ...
- WI Daily Update: Great jumbo perch fishing on the Mississippi RiverThanks to improving water clarity and more vegetation, jumbo perch have rebounded big time on Minnesota/Wisconsin waters of the Mississippi River. Here’s what...
- MN Daily Update: Great jumbo perch fishing on the Mississippi RiverThanks to improving water clarity and more vegetation, jumbo perch have rebounded big time on Minnesota/Wisconsin waters of the Mississippi River. Here’s what...
- Wisconsin’s historic Spooner fish hatchery building to undergo renovationOne of the oldest buildings in Spooner, Wis., will soon receive a badly needed face lift as Friends Into Spooner Fish Hatchery (FISH) plan to renovate a buildin...
- Patrick Durkin: Show folks a sturgeon, they’ll tell you a storyFirst, they made the morning headlines April 22 by not landing on the nation’s endangered species list (ESL). The Center for Biological Diversity claims lake ...
- Afternoons and evenings can be great times to target turkeys, especially late in the seasonIf you rewind the clock and look back at the history of the turkey season in Minnesota, you’ll see that a few decades ago, things were vastly different. One o...
- Play the wind to get your gobbler this springPerusing the hunting section of a local farm store one spring day, I asked the associate where the scent free soap and sprays were. “Man, you know turkeys can...
- Dean Bortz: When it comes to the chore list, it’s never ‘just’ for meSo here it was, opening weekend of Wisconsin’s 2024 fishing season and even though plenty of work had been accomplished leading up to Saturday, May 4, the cho...
- Wisconsin loses conservation leader Dave LaddDavid Ladd, long-time conservationist and past member of the Conservation Congress, passed away April 25 at age 89. If there was a “who’s who” of Wisconsi...
- Getting pushy with toms: Here’s when and how to call aggressively for turkeysWe’ve all heard aggressive turkey calling – on TV, sitting next to a hunting friend, or sometimes even in the woods just after fly-down as two hens dish out...
- Notes off a soiled cuff: Thoughts on turkeys, CWD in Pennsylvania, and moreBy now, you likely have heard about researchers in Texas reporting last month on a case in which two deer hunters contracted a rare and fatal brain disease afte...
- Commentary: Public input important to Wisconsin deer workCounty Deer Advisory Committees (CDACs) are done with this year’s work, but how much does members’ efforts impact all the variables that influence deer numb...
- Need a scope for your deer rifle? Hunters may find an advantage in BDC scopesShould you own a bullet drop compensator (BDC) scope? Maybe, maybe not. Dialed in, it can be a hunter’s dream, offering the potential for an accurate 200-yard...
- Mike Schoonveld: How you clean fish impacts the flavor of your fishI remember the first fish I ever caught that someone cleaned for me and I got to eat it. My grandpa laid the tiny sunfish on the counter, used a spoon to scrape...
- Wisconsin’s Vilas, Oneida county offer doe tags; Iron, Ashland buck onlyMembers of two Citizen Deer Advisory Councils in neighboring counties went in different directions on antlerless deer quota suggestions from the deer hunters wh...