Outdoor News
Earlier this year
- How to properly work a jig for open water 2025In its most basic form, a jig consists of nothing more than a light wire hook molded into a shaped piece of lead or tungsten. The round jig is the most popular,...
- WI Daily Update: Lots of options for turkey hunters todayThere are many options at a hunter’s disposal when it comes to calling in turkeys today. Tim Lesmeister offers some thoughts. The post WI Daily Update: Lots o...
- Minnesota hunting incidents up slightly in 2024, with one fatalityMinnesota’s 2024 hunting-related injury incidents were the highest they’d been since 2013, with 14 total injuries involving firearms use while hunting, and ...
- Wisconsin’s fishing opener not set by a calendar; ‘It’s a time of the heart’As I write this, it’s the 30th of December. My next year’s calendar tells me Opening Day of the Wisconsin general fishing season is Saturday, May 3. Do I lo...
- Gretchen Steele: Redbud blossoms are spring’s tangy little treatYou know spring has finally arrived in Illinois when you see all the redbud trees burst into color all of a sudden – in addition to all those birds singing th...
- Cullen lakes in Minnesota’s Crow Wing County provide prime ice-out slab crappie countryThere’s an abundance of lakes throughout Crow Wing County that consistently produce respectable panfish. Among them are Middle Cullen and Upper Cullen, which ...
- Backyard and Beyond: Bye, bye winterAnyone who sees a great gray owl will never forget this large, almost ghostly bird that inhabits the boreal forest and far northern bogs. It doesn’t happen of...
- Minnesota’s Outdoor CalendarA look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Minnesota published in the April 18, 2025, edition of Outdoor News. The post Minnesota’s Outdoor Calend...
- Minnesota Cuffs & Collars: That’s not a goose, it’s a pigeonMinnesota cuffs and collars are field reports from DNR conservation officers. These reports are from the April 18, 2025, edition of Outdoor News. The post Minne...
- Steve Carney: For ice-out crappie anglers, patience is a virtueThe ice is becoming a distant memory in western Minnesota, but it has been a slow go. Anglers, as they usually do, have the drive to hit open water as soon as p...
- Minnesota Mixed Bag: Wyoming Police Department seeks the dumpers of dead fishThe Wyoming Police Department posted photos to Facebook April 14 of dead carp strewn near the access of Comfort Lake in Chisago County. The post Minnesota Mixed...
- Fish kill being investigated in northern Iowa streamThe Iowa Department of Natural Resources is investigating a fish kill at the South Branch of Lizard Creek in Fort Dodge in Cerro Gordo County, one county south ...
- Trump administration rolls back forest protectionsPresident Donald Trump’s administration acted to roll back environmental safeguards around future logging projects on more than half of U.S. national forests ...
- Minnesota Letters to the Editor: Ikes’ ‘common-sense’ approach to lead ban makes no senseReader-submitted letters to the editor published in the April 18, 2025, edition of Minnesota Outdoor News. The post Minnesota Letters to the Editor: Ikes’ ‘...
- Details emerge in wolf case from southeast MinnesotaThe Minnesota DNR has released more details regarding a wolf shot and killed in Fillmore County in early January. DNR Enforcement’s incident report states tha...