Outdoor News
Yesterday
- Iowa’s statewide fishing report on Sept. 11, 2025NORTHWEST Black Hawk Lake Water levels are several inches over the crest of the spillway. Water temperature are in the low 70s. Black Bullhead – Fair: Use nig...
- Outdoor horoscopes for the week of Sept. 8 to Sept. 14, 2025♈ Aries (March 21 – April 19) That teal you swore was “in range” is now safely in another zip code. Blame the optics, not your eyes. ♉ Taurus (April 2...
- Outdoor Insights: Time to organize a Duck Summit in Minnesota to address dwindling populationsCount Outdoor News among those endorsing Dennis Anderson’s suggestion that the Minnesota DNR should coordinate and host a Duck Summit. Gov. Mark Dayton pitche...
- Ohio’s outdoor trailblazers: Peg VanVleet hooks kids on fishingPeg VanVleet never stood a chance of not being a fisherman. “My parents were fishers and both set of grandparents were fishers,” said the retired Lake Erie ...
- Persistence, big bucktails, and the right window can turn September into trophy muskie seasonMuskie – the fish of 10,000 casts. With a pseudonym as such, one can only assume that it’s difficult to catch. In fact, they’re often revered as the most ...
- Jeffrey Frischkorn: Come to Pennsylvania’s Cross Fork for the trout, stay for the beautyCross Fork doesn’t have a big box outlet, much less one of those dollar-type stores, the ones we used to call five-and-dime stores when I was growing up. A do...
- Early deer season is often all about acorns, but you have to figure out how to hunt the favored forageOpening-week strategies for bowhunting deer hunters often center on ag fields and food plots. Whether that’s posting up over a sea of soybeans or on half an a...
- Sportsman profile: Mark Nale, a writer, photographer and activist, living large in Pennsylvania’s Centre Co.At 74, sportsman Mark Nale, of Port Matilda, Centre County, Pa, is proof that age is much more than a number. If Nale isn’t targeting wild trout ...
- Minnesota’s Zone 31 produces 560-pound bear as state hunters find average success earlyWhile spending Minnesota’s Sept. 1 bear-hunt opener watching a bait in Bear Permit Area 31, it was unusually quiet as Laura Gaulke, of Cloquet, said she’d s...
- MN Daily Update: Fish deep, clear lakes right now for big bluegillsIf you’re on a lake right now looking for big bluegills you want to make sure the water is deep and clear. Tim Lesmeister explains why. The post MN Daily Upda...
- Bob Gwizdz: A reminder that fishing is not rocket scienceI got an email from my buddy Jeff Greene recently. He said he’d just read my column on fishing the Hex hatch – in which I lamented that most of my fishing b...
- WI Daily Update: Fish deep, clear lakes right now for big bluegillsIf you’re on a lake right now looking for big bluegills you want to make sure the water is deep and clear. Tim Lesmeister explains why. The post WI Daily Upda...
- Liberal duck seasons expected again in 2026 after results of 2025 federal surveyWhen the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released its 2025 Waterfowl Breeding Population and Habitat Survey Field Reports on July 3 – the precursor to the annu...
Earlier this week
- Crappies rise among the ranks of Ash Lake’s offerings in northeast Minnesota (new interactive map for readers)If you head north on Highway 53 out of Orr for about 12 miles, you’ll drive right along the northeast corner of Ash Lake. Most anglers tend to drive right pas...
- Minnesota’s Outdoor CalendarA look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Minnesota published in the Sept. 12, 2025 edition of Outdoor News. The post Minnesota’s Outdoor Calenda...