Hunting News
Before 2025
- Outdoors headlines: Here’s a look back on top stories from a big 2023 in OhioThe year of 2023 was chock full of fine news stories that made the pages of Ohio Outdoor News. From two Lake Erie tournament fishermen headed to jail to a 16-ye...
- Fly-fishing is about a lifetime of learning for Illinois fisheries ecologistThere’s not a time in my life when I don’t remember enjoying fishing. Camping with my family as a child, I remember escaping down to the lake at the soonest...
- Men charged with killing 3,600 birds, including bald and golden eagles, to sell on black marketTwo men killed about 3,600 birds, including bald and golden eagles, during a "killing spree" on Montana’s Flathead Indian Reservation and elsewhere, then sold...
- Late season pheasant hunting offers great rewards for those willing to work for itMy late grandfather’s farewell performance as a pheasant hunter – a seven-decade recurring role – took center stage on a particularly brutal December day ...
- Opportunity to mentor young hunter ends with a giant mountain buck in New York’s AdirondacksThe ice crackled like the noise of a small pebble being thrown through a glass window, and my breath floated into the frigid air as I looked over my scope. The ...
- Pennsylvania’s bear harvest declines in 2023For the first time since 2007 Pennsylvania’s bear harvest is on track to be below 3,000. But according to a Pennsylvania Game Commission biologist, that...
- For chasing ruffed grouse, there’s no better time than late DecemberRuffed grouse hunters often focus most of their efforts on September and October hunts, but some of the most productive hunting occurs the last few weeks of Dec...
- Episode 466 – Late-season rooster pheasant and deer tactics, white-tailed deer research at the U of M, plus Pheasants Forever’s big government affairs staffEditor Tim Spielman helps host and Managing Editor Rob Drieslein kick off the show with late-season pheasant reports, plus the pair recap the Mississippi River ...
- Jeremiah Haas: Success in the deer woods is about showing upMost of us do not get to spend all day and night engaged in the outdoors. Time availability in the field changes during your life as you gain responsibilities a...
- North Dakota Fishing Report – December 15, 2023 – videoIt's a slow going start to the season and we are still seeing anywhere from open water to 10 inches of ice throughout the Devils Lake Basin. The post North Dako...
- Bluebill in Iowa’s Cerro Gordo County is small body of water with a few options for anglersBluebill Lake in Iowa’s Cerro Gordo County is a small body of water that offers anglers an opportunity at panfish, bass and catfish. At 40 acres and a m...
- Prosecutors charge Michigan conservation officer in campground shootingProsecutors have charged a Michigan conservation officer in connection with a campground shooting that left one person wounded. Ryan Cox, 22, was charged last w...
- Three Iowa land purchases add nearly 50 acres for recreation useThe Iowa Natural Resources Commission approved the purchase of three properties, with one of the purchases receiving special attention at the commission's Thurs...
- Michigan 15-year-old shoots new state-record buck in youth nontypical divisionFifteen-year-old Dylan Meyer from Zeeland, Mich., shot a 20-point nontypical buck in Ottawa County on Sept. 10, the second day of the 2023 youth deer hunt, that...
- Preliminary estimates show 11.8% decline in Michigan’s 2023 deer harvest, led by steep decline in U.P.Preliminary data from the Michigan DNR shows the 2023 state white-tailed deer harvest is down significantly, though the reasons why may not become clear until n...