Participating children will find a catch-and-release bluegill pond, where young anglers can have their photograph taken with their catch. The popular One-Cast station ensures everyone wins a prize. And bow-fishing stations offer youth an opportunity to shoot at moving targets in a pool or at a three-dimensional target.
Illinois Mixed Bag: Two Rivers Family Fishing Fair set for June 7 Read More »
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the May 30, 2025, edition of Illinois Outdoor News.
Illinois Letters to the Editor: Deer ‘seeing’ takes some work Read More »
Measures designed to give hunters a bigger role in managing the state’s deer herd passed both chambers of the Illinois General Assembly by unanimous votes.
House Bill 2339, which requires DNR to end its sharpshooting program used to manage CWD if no cases have been found in the previous three calendar years, and House Bill 2340, which makes landowner deer permits more accessible in counties where CWD has been found, both passed on May 21.
Callicoon Creek’s North Branch is, in many ways, two trout streams in one. And these days New York DEC fishing regulations support that, designating separate stretches and stocking only one area of the Sullivan County water.
Anglers have the option of pursuing either wild or stocked trout, and in some stretches both, with the 10.7-mile-long tributary to Callicoon Creek offering five miles of fishing access through the state’s Public Fishing Rights program.
DEC Region 7 ECOs worked a walleye detail for the month of April leading up to the May 1 opening of walleye season.
A look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across New York published in the May 30, 2025, edition of Outdoor News.
New York’s Outdoor Calendar Read More »
The trapping convention season is about to arrive and New York is home to several annual trapper events. There are a few others out-of-state.
The first New York show will be the Cattaraugus County Trapper’s Annual Sportsman’s show in Little Valley Aug. 8-10. There is food on site, raffles and an auction on Saturday night. There is both tent and trailer camping available.
Trapping convention season about to start in New York, surrounding states Read More »
Jerrod Vila, of Amsterdam, N.Y., board member with the New York State Outdoor Writers Association, was named the 2025 Pass it On Award winner at its spring conference in Lewiston.
Jerrod Vila of New York Outdoor News wins writers association’s Pass It On award Read More »
The New York State Outdoorsman Hall of Fame hosted its annual induction banquet May 4, in Canastota. The event attracted over 100 family members, friends, previous inductees, and guests who came to honor the new inductees and special award recipients.
Inductees, sportsmen honored at annual New York Outdoorsman HOF banquet Read More »
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