Outdoor News
Earlier this week
- Notes off a soiled cuff: Is a change coming to Pennsylvania’s minimum size for keeping trout?Have you ever wondered, like I have, where the state’s 7-inch minimum size for keeping trout came from. Seems too small, right? Well, at the Fish & Boat Commi...
- Developing drought causing issues for anglers, others in PennsylvaniaAutumn made a warm, dry entrance in Pennsylvania, forcing delays in trout stockings, prompting wildfire warnings, and testing angler patience on steelhead strea...
- Strange deer stands: A classic tale of going after one spooky Halloween buckA deer stand might be nothing more than the broad beam of a stout oak to lean your back against when you plant your butt on the ground. Or it might be a portabl...
- MN Daily Update: DNR wraps up aerial seeding project via helicopterThe Minnesota DNR recently completed a project to plant trees with the use of a helicopter. Listen here for details. The post MN Daily Update: DNR wraps up aeri...
- A deer hunting formula that works in IllinoisLots of farmland firearm bucks are shot accidentally on purpose. In most cases, the hunter plunks down in a favorite ground blind or climbs up into a box stand ...
- WI Daily Update: Public meeting scheduled on proposed new total allowable catch on Lake Michigan and Green Bay for lake whitefishThe Wisconsin DNR is proposing a new total allowable catch on Lake Michigan and Green Bay for lake whitefish. and there’s a virtual public meeting on the topi...
- Tom Venesky: Deer tags for tots in Pennsylvania is a bad ideaFrom the day my son was born, I couldn’t wait for the day when I could take him hunting with me. But it didn’t happen right away. From the time he could wal...
Earlier this month
- New York’s Gary Bush seeks the challenge of still-hunting, and targeting Adirondack bucksGary Bush shares the spirit of the mountain men: the age old urge to wander and explore new areas. He also shares their skill in hunting, especially deer. A vis...
- Michigan biologists expect a deer season similar to last year’s solid huntMichigan deer hunters took an estimated 179,829 whitetails during the firearms deer season in 2024, up 3.7% over 2023 (177,292). That total included an est...
- A quick chat with Deer and Deer Hunting’s Daniel SchmidtMost north-country deer hunters have read Deer and Deer Hunting magazine. The publication is almost as ubiquitous as Winchester’s Model 94 – and may have ev...
- Commentary: Report breaks down billion-dollar impact of outdoor recreation in MinnesotaOutdoor recreation is a huge economic driver in Minnesota, contributing $13.5 billion in gross domestic product, $23.5 billion in economic output, and supportin...
- New York reader stories: Close encounters end with a 10-yard shot on a good buckThe 2024 deer season was in full swing and I had been hunting hard for seven days, from sunrise to sunset. I saw and passed on plenty of deer, many up close, bu...
- Steve Sarley: Bait shops of our past still reel me in now and thenI used to dream that I could quit my job and get in the fishing bait and tackle business. I figured that nothing would be better than to hang around my shop all...
- In Minnesota’s southeast and elsewhere, CWD sampling simply part of the hunting experienceA cool breeze was blowing as I began the long hike in the dark to my deer stand. It was opening morning of the firearms deer season in southeastern Minnesota, a...
- Rare hickorynut mussel found in Pennsylvania’s Shenango RiverAfter combing the bottom of the Shenango River in western Pennsylvania for two weeks, divers found what they were looking for: one of the rarest mussel species ...