Outdoor News
Earlier this year
- Steve Piatt: The sounds, and feelings, mark the true start of springSure, the calendar said March 20 was officially the first day of spring, but like any other year, I paid no attention to that designation. Neither, too, do many...
- Video: Scouting leads to a tom on Minnesota’s spring turkey openerEric Morken spent a lot of time looking for birds, talking to landowners and scouting new properties ahead of Minnesota's turkey opener on April 16, 2025. It pa...
- Chippewa National Forest puts in food storage order to reduce conflicts with bearsThe Chippewa National Forest has put into place a Campground Food Storage Forest Order for all developed fee campgrounds. The intent of the order is to re...
- Baldwin Lake in southern Illinois adds new fish cleaning stationA new fish cleaning station is now available at Kaskaskia River State Fish and Wildlife Area in southern Illinois, offering more convenience to anglers who fish...
- Want to kill a gobbler? Just like hunting whitetails, scouting is going to up your oddsAs a mostly casual turkey hunter, it took me years to really grab onto the concept of scouting for turkeys. After all, they gobble, so they’ll tell you where ...
- Streams of Thought: U.S. House bill to delist wolves clears committee; what’s it really mean?But will that change, in a (somewhat) new and inventive way? I tend not to get too worked up, as it were, when the subject matter is wolf management, by state g...
- Oak Duke: Willow fly signals start of trout fly season in New YorkThe Appalachian Willow fly here on the Genesee River appeared like just another weird bug crawling up my waders as I fished knee-deep for trout. That was 50 yea...
- 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...