Fall angling checklist: A preseason checkup for your ice fishing electronics
For more success when ice appears this fall, test your sonar, GPS, and other ice fishing gadgets now – during the off season.
September 6, 2017
In South Dakota, first documented hemorrhagic disease deer deaths in 2017
EHD was recently confirmed by laboratory analysis in a white-tailed deer in eastern Harding County and a white-tailed deer in western Butte County.
Muskie attacks woman on Duluth’s Island Lake
Second time in six weeks that someone is bitten by something in the water at the lake, although this time, it’s fairly minor.
Tracking and trailing basics for bear and deer
By Bill Wiesner, Target Communications Outdoor Books The noise of a gunshot and shock of a bullet or slug has an understandable effect on any big game animal. It has been my experience in bear hunting that a bear shot with a gun will bail out of a tree, but a bear hit with an arrow
Deer population objectives, boundary recommendations in the works in Wisconsin
MADISON — Early in September, County Deer Advisory Councils will provide preliminary recommendations on county deer population objectives for the next three years and potential changes to Deer Management Unit (DMU) boundaries for online public review and comment. The online public comment period regarding these recommendations will begin after noon on Sept. 11 and run
Gizzard shad found in northern Iowa’s East Okoboji Lake
SPIRIT LAKE, Iowa — The Iowa DNR reported that it discovered 26 3- to 5-inch gizzard shad in East Okoboji Lake as part of routine sampling last month. “We don’t know how gizzard shad got into the lake,” said Mike Hawkins, fisheries biologist for the Iowa DNR at Spirit Lake. “It is possible that someone intentionally
Tieville Bend Wildlife Area: western Iowa’s secret hunting hot spot
The parking lot of the Super 8 at Interstate 29 and Highway 175 fills each fall with trucks pulling boats covered with duck blinds. For hunters, the bread and butter at Tieville Bend is the fall duck migration and if you want to know how the hunting is, go to Onawa and stop in Dave’s
Southern Iowa seeing barn owl nesting boom
State wildlife experts are crediting a series of mild winters and an abundance of meadow vole prey in grasslands.
