Hunting News
Earlier this week
- State Roundup: Does Wisconsin put enough emphasis on catching poachers?Outdoor News recently ran a story from a Boone and Crockett Club research project that, at first cut, tells us as few as 4% to 5% of all fish and game poaching ...
- Will Illinois join movement to restrict fishing technology?Moves by national organizations to address the use of technology in competitive fishing have yet to impact Illinois anglers, but DNR and the Illinois High Schoo...
- MN Daily Update: Public can comment on plan to rescind roadless rule in national forestsThe Trump administration recently announced its intention to rescind the nation’s longstanding roadless rule in the nation’s national forests, and there’s...
- WI Daily Update: Public can comment on plan to rescind roadless rule in national forestsThe Trump administration recently announced its intention to rescind the nation’s longstanding roadless rule in the nation’s national forests, and there’s...
- New York DEC conducting review of Lake George salmon; results may impact future stockingFew anglers spend as much time fishing the depths of Lake George as Burke Collins. Year-round, he is fishing through the ice or from his kayak, and he’s caugh...
Earlier this month
- New York hunters head afield as September means season openersNew York hunters are in “decision mode,” or soon will be as hunting seasons for big game and numerous small game species continue to open across the state. ...
- In early fall, find the weed mats and fish them for a mixed bag of speciesWater Lotus in full bloom is not only a sight to behold, you may find opportunities to catch fish under and around it. Plant beds provide shade and cooler tempe...
- Innovative way to display gobbler trophies by incorporating ‘turkey jewels’After seeing several posts and photos of “turkey jewels” – which are the gizzard stones from harvested gobblers – I thought these were another item to a...
- Alliance promotes outdoors activities in Wisconsin’s Oconto CountyA coalition of sportsmen’s groups in Oconto County, Wis., is working together toward a common goal of introducing kids to the outdoors in a county that provid...
- Squirrel hunting is a stepping stone to outdoorsSquirrel season is here in Ohio and many other states, and frankly my son and I couldn’t be more excited. Sadly, though, you don’t see many people get...
- Stonecats are the best river bass bait out thereLegendary rocker Ozzy Osbourne, tragically, is dead, but I know how I’m going to honor his memory this fall. I’ll press in my earbuds, put on “Ironman,”...
- Wisconsin loses conservationists Carl Batha, Carol MurphyWisconsin lost two hard-working conservationists in August, as Carl Batha, 78, and Carol Murphy, 64, passed away. Batha, of Platteville, retired from the Depart...
- Story of students processing a bear on Cornell University campus goes viralThe story of two Cornell University students butchering a legally-harvested bear in their college dorm kitchen has gone viral, garnering national headlines. Alt...
- Bill Hilts, Jr.: Flipping out for water change fishing in New York’s Niagara RiverWhen the winds of change blow on the Great Lakes, water is moved around – having a profound impact on where fish want to be. It was over 40 years ago when I f...
- Illinois archers anticipating another good deer season; is a harvest record within reach?Bow season opens on a Wednesday, making it fairly easy to predict a Day 1 harvest of 650 to 750 deer – give or take a hundred or so. It’s a simple forecast ...