Hunting News
Earlier this year
- Geoff’s pigeon pattern secretsGame chef José Souto is back out with pigeon supremo Geoff Garrod, on the Essex estate where Geoff is the gamekeeper. It’s a scorching hot summer’s day but...
- Americans hunting roebuckDifferent deer – different techniques: hunting roebuck in the UK is different to hunting whitetail in the USA. Brian Pitell and Ashley Frederick from Safari C...
- Agencies testing ‘bait platforms’ to catch Asian carp in Pool 8 of the Mississippi RiverScientists from the U.S. Geological Survey, in collaboration with the Minnesota and Wisconsin departments of natural resources, will install floating bait platf...
- Steve Carney: Those pesky perch, and a serious rice crop that bodes well for Minnesota duck seasonIt’s been a tough fishing season so far for me on Otter Tail Lake, one of the most iconic walleye lakes in Minnesota. This was my go-to lake for decades, but ...
- Walleye, trout and salmon Minnesota stamp winners namedShoreview artist Scott Wenner has won the Minnesota 2026 trout and salmon stamp contest with an acrylic painting of a brown trout, and Shakopee artist Mark Thon...
- Minnesota Mixed Bag: Game Fair’s second weekend begins FridayThe second big weekend of Game Fair runs Friday through Sunday, Aug. 15-17, at Armstrong Ranch Kennels in Ramsey. The post Minnesota Mixed Bag: Game Fair’s se...
- Minnesota Letters to the Editor: Clean energy still a focus here, and elsewhere following federal bill’s passageReader-submitted letters to the editor published in the Aug. 15, 2025, edition of Minnesota Outdoor News. The post Minnesota Letters to the Editor: Clean energy...
- Minnesota’s Brown County Pheasants Forever earns 2025’s Outdoor Leaders AwardIf you’re a Minnesota pheasant hunter, consider yourself lucky to have the Brown County chapter of Pheasants Forever on the beat in south-central Minnesota. T...
- North Dakota places new restrictions on nonresident waterfowlers at the urging of resident huntersRon Nerva realized his out-of-state waterfowl-hunting plans were sliced in half Aug. 1. That’s when he read about changes to North Dakota’s rules for nonres...
- Wanted: Hunters to control deer numbers that are ‘decimating’ crops in southwest PennsylvaniaWashington County grain farmer Jim Lindley is cautiously optimistic that new and improved Pennsylvania Game Commission programs for agricultural producers will ...
- Outdoor Observations: Social media reaction sours experience of setting Michigan’s new flathead catfish recordWe live in a world heavily dependent upon social media. For many of our readers this is a far cry from how we grew up. It really wasn’t that long ago when you...
- MN Daily Update: Comment on wildlife management in the stateThe Minnesota DNR is asking for comments and conversation from the general public about wildlife management in the state. Listen here for details. The post MN D...
- Bob Gwizdz: How Lake Erie became a world class walleye fisheryGuys my age remember when Lake Erie was called the Dead Sea. It was an amalgam of industrial waste and sewage, so polluted that one of its tributaries – the C...
- Minnesota’s natural bear foods more ‘normal’ this summerThis year’s natural food landscape in Minnesota’s bear country is going to be a different animal from last year, as this season likely will return to a more...
- Commentary: Stocking hatchery trout over wild trout is always a bad ideaI recently testified at the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission’s quarterly meeting. This is the first time I’ve been back to headquarters in seven years. I...