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Earlier this month
- New York Fishing Report – March 28-April 4, 2025 – videoThe early spring brown trout bite on Lake Ontario is off to a good start inside 20 feet of water. The post New York Fishing Report – March 28-A...
- Spring open-water crappie plastics – focusing on minnow-style baits – videoThree options I’ve done well with recently and the progression on how/when I use them. The post Spring open-water crappie plastics – focusing on minnow-styl...
- Metro Area Fishing Report – March 30, 2025 – videoHad the boat in the water a bit this past week and it felt good. Cold weather returned (and looks to be lingering) so we will see how this next week goes. The p...
- North Dakota Fishing Report – March 29, 2025 – videoOpen-water season is here – but so is ice fishing. The post North Dakota Fishing Report – March 29, 2025 – video appeared first on Outdoor News.
- Discussion on forward-facing sonar, walleye limit among hot topics at MN-FISH summitOn Thursday, March 27, about 200 anglers from across Minnesota attended the MN-FISH Summit in Grand Rapids to hear from industry experts on various topics. ...
- Minnesota Mixed Bag: Shotgun zone elimination bill in state House exempts Olmsted, Dodge countiesOn Tuesday. April 1, the House Environment and Natural Resource Finance and Policy Committee laid over, for potential inclusion in an omnibus bill, H.F. 623, th...
- Minnesota Letters to the Editor: Crossbows are good for the sportReader-submitted letters to the editor published in the April 4, 2025, edition of Minnesota Outdoor News. The post Minnesota Letters to the Editor: Crossbows ar...
- Minnesota’s April trout opener creates a buzz in the southeastThe traditional April stream trout “harvest” opener – April 12 this year – will never have the pomp and circumstance and mass appeal of Minnesota’s Ma...
- Minnesota budget plan cuts one-third of payments in lieu of taxesLooking down the barrel of an even larger budget deficit than originally projected in the fall of 2024, Gov. Tim Walz revised his initial budget proposal by car...
- Interesting in bow hunting? Register for Iowa’s Learn to Hunt programThe Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is offering a six-month workshop to teach skills needed to hunt, field dress and cook white-tailed deer to indivi...
- Iowa DNR’s annual spring wildlife spotlight survey underwayStaff with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) are currently conducting their annual nighttime spring spotlight surveys across the state, collecting ...
- Heidecke Lake in Grundy County remains most likely to hold record muskie in IllinoisThe former cooling lake located between Illinois Route 47 and Interstate 55 on Lorenzo/Pine Bluff Road certainly has more than muskies to attract anglers, as la...
- Illinois’ Outdoor CalendarA look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Illinois published in the April 4, 2025, edition of Outdoor News. The post Illinois’ Outdoor Calendar a...
- Illinois Cuffs & Collars: Angler in ‘bass buggy’ needed a PFD and a licenseIllinois cuffs and collars are field reports from Conservation Police Officers. These reports are from the April 4, 2025, edition of Outdoor News. The post Illi...
- Outdoors groups file suit against USFWS over ‘blanket rule’ under Endangered Species ActTwo national conservation groups have filed suit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over what they call a “blanket rule that hinders habitat restorati...