Hunting News
Earlier this year
- Why is meat from some feral hogs tainted blue?I used to take my two sons to southern Texas during spring break to bowhunt hogs at a high-fence ranch. (I’m not a beach guy; I’d rather hunt.) In three day...
- Mike Schoonveld: Time to feed those invasive carp another planIf the first person to import Asian carp to North America was a Star Trek fan, when he turned them loose perhaps he repeated the traditional Vulcan phrase Mr. S...
- Michigan’s Dathon Skelton: A decoy carver extraordinaireDathon Skelton says working gunning decoys tend to have simpler paint schemes and less detail. He has branched out from carving duck decoys to carving more song...
- MN Daily Update: Don’t lean so heavily on trail cameras this deer seasonPeople are leaning on trail cameras more and more when it comes to scouting for whitetails. Tim Lesmeister explains why there’s a better way to make sure you ...
- WI Daily Update: Don’t lean so heavily on trail cameras this deer seasonPeople are leaning on trail cameras more and more when it comes to scouting for whitetails. Tim Lesmeister explains why there’s a better way to make sure you ...
- Steve Piatt: How good was the fishing? The hands tell the storyUndertake any weeklong fishing trip and you’ll undoubtedly return home with plenty of pictures. After all, you’re fishing all week, every day. You should be...
- Iowa’s statewide fishing report on Sept. 11, 2025NORTHWEST Black Hawk Lake Water levels are several inches over the crest of the spillway. Water temperature are in the low 70s. Black Bullhead – Fair: Use nig...
- Outdoor horoscopes for the week of Sept. 8 to Sept. 14, 2025♈ Aries (March 21 – April 19) That teal you swore was “in range” is now safely in another zip code. Blame the optics, not your eyes. ♉ Taurus (April 2...
- Outdoor Insights: Time to organize a Duck Summit in Minnesota to address dwindling populationsCount Outdoor News among those endorsing Dennis Anderson’s suggestion that the Minnesota DNR should coordinate and host a Duck Summit. Gov. Mark Dayton pitche...
- Ohio’s outdoor trailblazers: Peg VanVleet hooks kids on fishingPeg VanVleet never stood a chance of not being a fisherman. “My parents were fishers and both set of grandparents were fishers,” said the retired Lake Erie ...
- Persistence, big bucktails, and the right window can turn September into trophy muskie seasonMuskie – the fish of 10,000 casts. With a pseudonym as such, one can only assume that it’s difficult to catch. In fact, they’re often revered as the most ...
- Jeffrey Frischkorn: Come to Pennsylvania’s Cross Fork for the trout, stay for the beautyCross Fork doesn’t have a big box outlet, much less one of those dollar-type stores, the ones we used to call five-and-dime stores when I was growing up. A do...
- Early deer season is often all about acorns, but you have to figure out how to hunt the favored forageOpening-week strategies for bowhunting deer hunters often center on ag fields and food plots. Whether that’s posting up over a sea of soybeans or on half an a...
- Sportsman profile: Mark Nale, a writer, photographer and activist, living large in Pennsylvania’s Centre Co.At 74, sportsman Mark Nale, of Port Matilda, Centre County, Pa, is proof that age is much more than a number. If Nale isn’t targeting wild trout ...
- Minnesota’s Zone 31 produces 560-pound bear as state hunters find average success earlyWhile spending Minnesota’s Sept. 1 bear-hunt opener watching a bait in Bear Permit Area 31, it was unusually quiet as Laura Gaulke, of Cloquet, said she’d s...