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April 3, 2025

Tagging a ‘ghost gobbler’ a memorable way to wrap up 40 years hunting Wisconsin turkeys

Featured, Features, Home Page News, Hunting, National Hunting, Wisconsin /

Rain was a continual pest during last year’s turkey season during the second week in May in Wisconsin. Enduring a wet afternoon and evening left a person wondering where to set up the next morning.
I went with a spot where I could snuggle in among the protection of pine trees. The next morning the fog was thick as I left the cabin at 4:45 a.m.

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New book by Colby Simms guides anglers across southern Illinois waters

Featured, Fishing, Illinois, National Fishing /

A new book by a well-known southern Illinois angler is designed to share tactics and strategies for catching fish at the bottom of the state.
Colby Simms shares secrets he’s gleaned from years of hooking catfish on the Mississippi River, muskies in Kinkaid Lake, crappies at Rend Lake, largemouth bass in Crab Orchard Lake, and stripers at Cedar Lake.

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Christine Thomas: Recapping the aftermath of Hurricane Ian from Captiva, Florida

Featured, Nature Page & Night Sky, Wisconsin /

I know from the nice notes I get that some of my readers enjoy the little cabin crew Florida adventures when I write about them. Many have experienced the area at some time in their lives and appreciate the references to places they have been.
I did not write about Florida in the year of the aftermath of Hurricane Ian. This story is hard for me to tell.

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Ice-out baits that catch multiple fish species

Featured, Features, Fishing, Gear & Gadgets, Home Page News, National Fishing, New York /

What the heck are dual purpose baits? In my universe that translates to multi-species baits. Lures you cast that will reasonably catch more than one species of fish. For a dedicated angler, that’s exactly what we look for.
There’s nothing wrong with being a species-select angler dedicated to bass, trout, salmon or walleye. However, I’ve found the multi-species anglers are a bit more receptive to the idea of dual-purpose baits and they’ll usually catch some nice fish over the course of their day. Here are a few examples of dual-purpose baits and when I prefer to fish them to kick off the season.

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If you want to bag more gobblers, master mouth calls

Featured, Featured, Features, Home Page News, Hunting, Hunting, Iowa, Minnesota, National Hunting /

The turkey-call market is full of options: Box calls, pot calls, push-button calls, and more all promise to lure in cruising longbeards.
While it’s up for debate on the diversity of calls anyone can produce with several of the call styles on the market, it’s undeniable that mouth calls allow you to say everything you need to say. You just need to find the right call, and then practice.

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Here’s how to get the most out of your forward-facing sonar

Featured, Features, Fishing, Fishing, Fishing, Fishing, Fishing, Fishing, Fishing, Fishing, Fishing, Gear & Gadgets, Home Page News, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, National Fishing, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin /

Forward-facing sonar (FFS), while being a key tool in a growing number of anglers’ boats, is not exactly the magic bullet people (who don’t own a unit) think it is. It takes careful rigging, lots of practice, and needs to be fitted to an angler’s fishing style to really pay dividends.
Wisconsin’s Tommy Kemos is one of the most consistent walleye anglers anywhere and said his Garmin indeed helps him compete in today’s high-tech fishing world, but there are some keys to using the technology properly.

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Yet another mild winter could aid Minnesota’s turkeys, pheasants

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Looking back on the 2024-25 winter, turkeys and pheasants mostly didn’t get pounded by either low temperatures or heavy snowfall amounts. That positive news likely will lead to promising hunting seasons – the former this spring and the latter this fall.
“It’s the combination of the two (cold and snow) that really gets to them. So the fact that we never really had huge snow loads and didn’t really have the super cold to go with it – I think they did really well for the most part,” said Nate Huck, DNR resident game bird specialist.

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Glenn Sapir: Tips to help you find places to turkey hunt in New York

Featured, Features, Home Page News, Hunting, National Hunting, New York /

If you are brand new to turkey hunting or if you have just moved to your part of New York, then you face a similar problem: where to hunt?
Today’s prospective turkey hunter has a lot more aids to answer that question than I did when I started turkey hunting in the last millennium. That’s when wild turkeys were first appearing in huntable populations, and few people knew much, if anything, about them.

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