Hunting News
Before 2024
- New York’s Allegany County Pheasant Program prevails amid flu outbreak in MarchA popular initiative that boosts pheasant hunting opportunities in Allegany County will go on as usual this year, despite a disease outbreak that threatened New...
- Endangered red wolf can make it in the wild, but not without ‘significant’ help, study saysThe endangered red wolf can survive in the wild, but only with "significant additional management intervention," according to a long- awaited population viabili...
- Born to duck hunt: At 71, passion for following the flock still runs deep for Iowa’s Greg DreesA diehard duck hunter is a breed of its own. After all, who would be excited about waking at 3 a.m., facing below freezing temperatures, battling strong northwe...
- New research in Illinois utilizing listening devices aims to understand how fish interact in Chicago RiverHow far do largemouth bass swim? How do bluegills respond to poor water quality? And where do common carp, sunfish, and crappies go in the winter months? One mi...
- MN Daily Update: Hunters can help with prairie chicken and grouse researchMinnesota prairie chicken and grouse hunters can help with research in the northwestern portion of the state. Here are the details. RELATED STORY: Commentary: P...
- WI Daily Update: Flamingos draw onlookers at Lake Michigan beachFive flamingos that showed up in Wisconsin to wade along a Lake Michigan beach attracted a big crowd of onlookers eager to see the unusual visitors venturing fa...
- Setting sights on a waterfowl hunt at Michigan’s Nayanquing PointLooking up hunting rules on the handy Michigan DNR Hunt Fish phone app, I spotted the “Drawing results” box and remembered I’d entered a permit lottery. C...
- Pennsylvania Sportsman Profile: Shippensburg conservationist works for clean waterFrom childhood fishing excursions to his present-day passion for conservation, Don Horn always has valued water. In his retirement, Horn said he found pur...
- From a modest start, steelhead fishing gets in the blood of Ohio anglerGrowing up near the Rocky River, Ken Harper’s interest spanned the usual assortment of species: panfish, bass, and walleyes, to name a few. That was until a s...
- Know your oaks: Increase your acorn IQ to become a better deer hunterYou don’t have to hunt deer long to realize that oak trees, and the acorns they drop each fall, are hugely important to whitetails. And many hunters know that...
- Rocky outcrops attract fish: Here’s how to fish themWhen I see the outcrop in my favorite lake, my thoughts go back to a smallmouth. It was a cold day in the fall. Dark with rain, one of those precursors to winte...
- Chair of Lake Superior Commercial Fishing Board: “This is the strongest that I’ve ever seen this fishery”The Lake Superior fishery received some glowing words at the Wisconsin Natural Resources Board’s (NRB) Sept. 27 meeting. Craig Hoopman, chair of the Lake Supe...
- Tribal gill netting bad news for Michigan fisheriesSeveral years ago, I was fishing for walleyes on an inland lake with a well-seasoned guide (meaning he was probably 20 years older than me) and in casual conver...
- Outdoor News columnist Gretchen Steele joins Illinois’ Outdoor Hall of FamersThe hardest part about putting Gretchen Steele into the Illinois Outdoor Hall of Fame is figuring out how to describe her when rattling off what has become a ra...
- Trout in autumn means it’s second streamer seasonThere’s something about a streamer strike. You’re attentively striping line to give the fly action, making it appear like a fleeing fish, when, suddenly, th...