Hunting News
Before 2025
- Dan Small Outdoors Radio: Show1907Late winter is expo time in Wisconsin. Choose from the Milwaukee Muskie Expo, Wisconsin Fishing Expo, Autorama World of Wheels, Milwaukee Sports Show, Wisconsin...
- Members hope to revive Wisconsin’s Sporting Heritage CouncilThe Sporting Heritage Council, an organization created by the Wisconsin legislature in 2011 and coordinated by the Department of Natural Resources, has not met ...
- Wisconsin Letters to the Editor: Agrees with Wydeven on key point: remove wolves from ESLReader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Feb. 23, 2024, edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News. The post Wisconsin Letters to the Editor: Agrees with ...
- Wisconsin Mixed Bag: Natural Resources Board to meet in-person on Feb. 28 in MadisonThe Wisconsin Natural Resources Board (NRB) will meet in-person Wednesday, Feb. 28, at 8:30 a.m. in room G09 of the State Natural Resources Building to consider...
- Wisconsin’s sturgeon spearing opener severely hampered by weatherUnseasonable warm weather, rain, and high winds combined to create the worst ice conditions in memory for the sturgeon spearing season that opened Feb. 10 on Wi...
- Minnesota’s Mille Lacs Lake sees 10% decrease in total harvest quotaThe Mille Lacs Lake fisheries advisory committee (MLFAC) met on Tuesday, Feb. 15, to discuss open water regulations for the lake and 2024’s allowable walleye ...
- Sharptail grouse society leaves Wisconsin Wildlife Federation over dog training legislationA bill moving through the Wisconsin Assembly and Senate has created turmoil between conservation groups that usually partner toward common goals. Assembly Bill ...
- Ask a fisheries biologist: Research illustrates the futility of trying to release bow-shot fishBowfishing is a popular practice, with at least some legal opportunities in all 50 states. Unlike hook-and-line angling, bowfishing does not lend itself to the ...
- Wisconsin’s statewide fishing report on Feb. 16, 2024Ice hanging on in the north, big rivers opening up. A look at the Wisconsin fishing report from across the state on Feb. 16, 2024. The post Wisconsin’s statew...
- New York DEC projects duck hunting season dates for 2024-27Barring potential changes at the Federal level, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation recently announced duck hunting season dates for the...
- New York hunters, anglers, trappers get added flexibility for purchasing licensesThe New York State Department of Environmental Conservation recently announced that beginning with the 2024-25 sporting license year, the paper used for state s...
- Episode 40 — Inside the Adirondack Outdoorsman Show with Mike HauserWith the sport show season fully under way Dan sits down with Mike Hauser, promoter of the Adirondack Outdoorsman Show coming up in Johnstown, N.Y. Feb. 24-25. ...
- Mike Raykovicz: A little maintenance to gear ends another memorable hunting seasonHere it is the middle of February and I’m just getting around to putting away my hunting gear until next season. I know there are rabbits, grouse, hares, and ...
- New York Fishing Report – February 16, 2024There is a mix of unsafe ice and open water on this fishery, where the current warm-up could possibly trigger some panfish action in the canals. The post ...
- It’s a great winter to try the southeast Minnesota trout optionDown in the bottom-right-hand corner of Minnesota, some 700 miles of trout streams flow through the valleys between bluffs. They range from oversized trickles t...