Outdoor News
Today
- 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...
Yesterday
- 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...
- Minnesota Cuffs & Collars: Waders, no life jacket and a paddleboard not a good combinationMinnesota cuffs and collars are field reports from DNR conservation officers. These reports are from the Sept. 12, 2025 edition of Outdoor News. The post Minnes...
- Steve Carney: A dove report, and the makes-no-sense early teal hunt in MinnesotaI hunted the dove opener along the South Dakota/North Dakota border and my opening-day results were mediocre. I couldn’t believe the shift this year from smal...
- Winner of 2026 Minnesota waterfowl stamp contest announcedSt. Paul artist Matt Linz has won the 2026 Minnesota waterfowl stamp contest with an oil painting of buffleheads. Stephen Hamrick, of Lakeville, earned second p...
- New Minnesota fish and wildlife advisory committee produces its report for 2025The Minnesota DNR’s recently created Fish and Wildlife Advisory Committee plans to host a meeting to share the 2025 report that members have developed the pas...