Hunting News
Before 2024
- Minnesota’s Pro Tip of the Week: Fall perch bite leads to big size and numbersThe fall perch bite will be full swing in a week or so to a degree that it can rival the famous Devils Lake winter perch bite. The size and numbers of perch are...
- Minnesota’s statewide fishing report for Sept. 20, 2023No big switch to fall walleye or crappie patterns yet. A look at the fishing report from across Minnesota on Sept. 20, 2023. The post Minnesota’s statewide fi...
- If you’re sittin’ in a boat on Minnesota’s Bay, you’re not wastin’ timeThere isn’t anything real complicated about catching fish on Crow Wing County’s Bay Lake: Find a weedline and you’re likely going to catch something. Loca...
- The ‘get ‘er done’ force that was Bob Kerans: Remembering Illinois Outdoor News’ Person of the YearHe was selected as our 2023 “Outdoor Person of the Year,” so early this spring I drove to his home in Decatur, Ill., to snap a photo of Bob Kerans holding h...
- Illinois Letters to the Editor: Bowhunting today is not as I remember itReader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Sept. 22, 2023, edition of Illinois Outdoor News. The post Illinois Letters to the Editor: Bowhunting to...
- Illinois Mixed Bag: Drawing coming up for youth deer hunt in Montgomery CountyDNR will conduct a drawing in late September for three youth to hunt deer during the Illinois youth firearm deer season Oct. 7-9 at Coffeen Lake State Fish and ...
- High School Combine in Alabama offers anglers chance to display fishing skills to college coachesMore than 100 high school anglers from 22 states were hoping to reel in scholarships from college coaches at the third annual Skeeter Bassmaster High School Com...
- Clinics, youth pheasant hunts set at Illinois state parks in OctoberA pheasant hunt will take place during the afternoon. Participants must have successfully completed an approved hunter safety course and have a valid hunting li...
- Illinois Cuffs & Collars: Multiple trapping violations in Kankakee CountyField reports from Illinois Conservation Police CPOs published in the Sept. 22, 2023, edition of Illinois Outdoor News. The post Illinois Cuffs & Collars: Multi...
- Illinois’ Outdoor CalendarA look at upcoming outdoor-related events from across Illinois published in the Sept. 22, 2023, edition of Illinois Outdoor News. The post Illinois’ Outdoor C...
- Fall closure to vehicles on ‘Snake Road’ in Illinois a good time to visit on foot; just watch your stepLocated in the Shawnee National Forest within LaRue-Pine Hill Research Natural Area, is a one-of-a-kind place that locals call Snake Road. Snake Road is a 2½-m...
- Largemouth still getting larger at Illinois’ Mill Creek Lake in Clark CountyBass are never a preferred food item. Muskie predation on large adult gizzard shad is highly desirable on Mill Creek Lake to thin this size group, with white su...
- Early-season whitetails: Here are four food sources to target in late September, early OctoberThe rut gets all the attention, but if I know where a big buck is living, I’d rather hunt him in late September or early October than any other time of season...
- MN Daily Update: Get off the beaten path for grouse this seasonGrouse seasons are opening up across the Upper Midwest. Numbers look good in many states, but here’s a challenge to try something different this season. The p...
- WI Daily Update: Avoid hunting pressure by getting off the beaten path for grouse this seasonGrouse seasons are opening up across the Upper Midwest. Numbers look good in many states, but here’s a challenge to try something different this season. The p...