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- MN Daily Update: CWD confirmed in western Minnesota wild deer for first timeThe Minnesota DNR announced that chronic wasting disease had been confirmed in a wild whitetail buck harvested by a Wheaton-area firearms hunter during tha...
- For one deer hunter, this was a really poor stand locationThere’s something special about sitting in a deer stand. It’s a front-row seat to nature’s wonders. At dawn, the wild world comes alive – songbirds sing...
- These mini tools will have your mini food plots pulling in deerTom Hart, a good buddy, former cop, and current Outdoor News advertising salesman has harvested a lot of big bucks from small urban spots to larger out-of-state...
- New York DEC seeks camping ambassadors for 2025 seasonThe New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s volunteer camping ambassador program is returning in 2025. The agency recently announced the ope...
- New York’s Orange County D.A. reveals the 4th annual fishing derby winnersOrange County District Attorney David M. Hoovler recently announced the winners of the fourth District Attorney’s Office Youth Fishing Derby. The derby, which...
- Black ice, big trout (and walleyes, too)Eager footsteps grounded in common-sense trepidation guide our way out onto the first few inches of jet-black “glass.” Every hit of the spud bar resonates t...
- January fishing in Michigan means mixed ice opportunities on Mullett, Burt, and BlackIn the winter of 2023-2024, I didn’t go ice fishing once. I might have been able to sneak out once or twice if it’d been a huge priority, but I didn’t. Gi...
- Dan Small Outdoors Radio: Show 1951Merry Christmas from Outdoors Radio. Fisheries biologist suggests ways to help bring back walleye numbers in our northern lakes. Fish and Game Forecaster can he...
- Early ice on Mississippi sidetracks capture of Asian carp in Minnesota, WisconsinUnlike a year ago, when the Minnesota and Wisconsin DNRs caught the most Asian carp in one attempt on the Mississippi River than ever before in state history, t...
- Approached correctly, winter stream trout fishing in southeast Minnesota offers uniqueness, serenityIt was, in retrospect, an incandescently stupid mistake. I obviously didn’t listen close enough to the weather terrorists on television the previous night. Su...
- Bob Gwizdz: Biologists worry CWD will be a long-term issue in Michigan’s deer herdIt’s been a while since chronic wasting disease has been in the news in Michigan, so I thought I’d take a look at the literature. I called Chad Stewart, the...
- Go shallow for early-ice panfish in New YorkGo shallow in the early ice season: go deeper in the shank of winter: go shallow again as the ice season melts away. Many members of the “Frozen Chozen” wil...
- Weasels provide a good opportunity to get started in trappingMy first encounter with a weasel was fox trapping as a teenager in the 1970s. I caught one in a No. 1½ coil-spring trap at a dirt-hole set for fox. I admit I s...
- John Tertuliani: Memories of long-ago come flooding back each deer openerI was 13 when an opportunity for a rifle hunt came together in north-central Pennsylvania, the region where my grandfather immigrated to and met the woman who w...
- Try this ‘glowing’ strategy for early-ice crappiesMy knees were starting to bang together. I wish I could’ve pulled the ice hole closer to the little fire I’d constructed but that was physically impossible....