Outdoor News
Earlier this year
- Fish sampling season luring anglers’ eyes in IllinoisAs Illinois fishermen, this we know: Biologists and their crews aren’t sharing photos and catch reports from spring sampling sessions simply to tease and aggr...
- Can nature be nonpartisan in 2025? New nonprofit aims to make it soBenji Backer wants to bring political conservatives back into the environmental conversation. The 27-year-old from Seattle recently launched a nonprofit called ...
- Dean Bortz: What can go wrong shall go wrong in the turkey woodsIf you’ve already read this story from Outdoor News, then you know that the 2025 turkey season is off to a roaring start in Wisconsin. There’s no way of kno...
- Wisconsin’s spawning sturgeon on the Fox River mean an opportunity for researchA local high school fishing club was able to get up close and personal with spawning lake sturgeon on the Fox River in Wisconsin. The annual sturgeon spawning r...
- Artists, fish-lure makers give floating trash a new lifeA social-media friend recently sent me a link to YouTube videos about using “feminine napkins” as bait for catching bass, catfish, lake trout, and rainbow t...
- Bob Gwizdz: Examining the benefits of spring burns for native grassesIf you drive the backroads of southern Michigan, you likely notice some grass fires or the charred results of recent prescribed burns in uninhabited swatches ac...
- Avian influenza naturally occurs in certain wildlifeWisconsin is seeing a wide variety of mortality of wildlife species due to the H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), but the risk of the virus to the g...
- Here’s how to stalk the aggressive spring pickerel in PennsylvaniaThe stalks rising from the lake’s silted bottom were thick, heavy and straight, like a wooden fence row. Everything seemed calm until I saw a flash of green p...
- Clues suggest ‘Prince’ was a hunter who enjoyed seafoodAs a Minnesotan, the name “Prince” immediately reminds me of a musical performer. However, this is not about that Prince but rather a young man named Prince...
- Pam Allen — a ‘mover and shaker’ — earns Ohio Outdoor News’ Person of the Year honorPam Allen is a mover and a shaker in the fly-fishing world that involves Ohio. But, Allen stresses that she can’t accomplish anything alone. Allen, of Lewis C...
- CWD cases escaping the disease’s ‘hot zone’ in IllinoisA deer taken this past season by a hunter in Adams County that later tested positive for CWD has greatly loosened what had been a tightly contained disease “h...
- Illinois’ statewide fishing report on April 25, 2025Bluegill bite strong, channel cats biting statewide. Here’s a look at the Illinois fishing report from across the state on April 25, 2025. The post Illinois...
- Ely, Grand Marais ranger stations in Minnesota redirect Boundary Waters permittingIn late-April, people who already planned to pick up their Boundary Water Canoe Area Wilderness permits from two ranger stations in Ely and Grand Marais receive...
- State roundup: Wisconsin turkey hunters off to a fast start, and a frustrating litter findIt looks like turkey hunters are off to a good start on the 2025 spring season, judging by early harvest numbers for the first season. According to Taylor Finge...
- Wisconsin’s Pete Olson, a coach and avid muskie angler, dies on 90th birthday“When I die, I know I’m not going to heaven because I’m there now,” Pete Olson said. “I fish every day and coach basketball during the winter.” Olso...