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- Discarded fishing line often proves fatal for birdsPennsylvania Game Warden Mike Yeck gets about a dozen calls a year regarding waterfowl with fishing line entangling their feet. Sometimes it’s multiple calls ...
- Important steps are required to land in Illinois’ fishing record bookOnce in a blue moon, the fish at the end of the line of a long-fought battle is a personal best – and just may be a contender for a state record. Remarkably, ...
- Gretchen Steele: Bowfishing a great outdoor sport, and a conservation toolFew outdoor sports activities evoke the raw thrill of bowfishing. It’s an unique blend of archery prowess and angler finesse, where enthusiasts aim not for tr...
- Michigan legislation would provide free hunting, fishing licenses to first responders and corrections officersAn Upper Peninsula lawmaker and many colleagues in the Michigan House want to offer free hunting and fishing licenses to first responders and corrections office...
- Looking for less congestion on Minnesota waters? Tips for finding walleyes without the crowdHunters and anglers often speak in absolutes. All of the deer are nocturnal. The toms are all henned up. The walleyes are never shallow this time of year. While...
- Whitefish, an important native food source from the Great Lakes, facing challengesThe Great Lakes of today are not the pristine waters of 300 years ago. Dams, industry, and the introduction of invasive species have forever altered the ecology...
- Hope growing that Pennsylvania’s state tree, the Eastern hemlock, can beat invasive adelgidsThe fight is far from over, but scientists are increasingly optimistic that once-ubiquitous Eastern hemlock trees might, with help, bounce back from a 50-year a...
- Black flies and brook trout create great adventures in the Adirondack backcountryThe first mile-and-a-half into the pond ended at the hardly discernible site of an old lumber camp. I knew there had been a lumber camp there 60 years earlier b...
- Jeremiah Haas: An Illinois mentor is still bringing joy to his former studentRecently, I was fortunate to learn the story of an Illinois sportsman who was a mentor to many young boys during his lifetime. As I sat down with Jay Wolf, who ...
- Tips to finding and catching early season pike in New YorkNot too long ago anglers believed that northern pike lost their teeth after spawning – as if the excitement and physical stress caused all the pike’s teeth ...
- Episode 488 – Opener recap, Mississippi perch, turkey tactics, and blown-up treestandsHost and Managing Editor Rob Drieslein and Editor Tim Spielman kick off the show recapping the 2024 inland waters fishing opener, which was pretty good. Al...
- Ryan Rothstein: With the fawning season comes hope, especially this springI never used to get too jazzed about spring. When I was a kid, I remember wishing away the seasons that weren’t fall, because any time that I couldn’t deer ...
- Minnesota’s shotgun zone for deer likely to remain as House, Senate strike bargain on environment, natural resources supplemental spending billNew ways for dealing with waste — packaging, boat wrap, outdated electronics, sewer sludge and heat — are included in a conference committee agreement on ...
- Michigan’s whitetail harvest, hunters both increase in ’23Hunter numbers and the deer harvest both inched up slightly last year, according to the Michigan DNR’s latest harvest report, which was presented to the state...
- Michigan’s statewide fishing report on May 17, 2024Great Lakes bite is improving; toms are still strutting. A look at the Michigan fishing and hunting report from across the state on May 17, 2024. The post Michi...