Big numbers of walleyes are holding over the deep mud basin in 31–34 feet of water. Anglers are finding success with two main techniques.
Lake of the Woods Fishing Report – August 19, 2025 Read More »
Growing up in the area and fishing Leech Lake, especially for muskies, it was a no-brainer for Baylor Short to tackle a Leech Lake muskie study coordinated by MN-Fish, the Minnesota DNR, and Bemidji State University.
“It’s nice to be working with the species I enjoy fishing for,” said Short, fisheries specialist for the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe and a BSU grad student leading the field work.
The study is well under way this summer, as Short has traversed the lake while dropping receivers and tracking tagged muskies, via boat, to better understand habitat use, how far the fish are moving, and to gauge mortality.
Here we are in the late summer open-lake trolling season, and big kings are being netted both offshore and near shore.
Orleans County (N.Y.) Fishing Report – August 19, 2025 Read More »
Outdoor News was at the final weekend of the 2025 Game Fair in Ramsey, Minn., where we asked those in attendance, “Who is someone you’d like to thank for introducing you to the outdoors, and why?” Watch the video below for their responses.
Video question from Minnesota’s Game Fair: Who introduced you to the outdoors? Read More »
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources invites the public to meet with DNR staff and partners in person on Wednesday, Aug. 27, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the VFW post in Eagle River for a public meeting on an upcoming walleye spawning reef project on Franklin Lake.
Wisconsin DNR seeking public input on Franklin Lake walleye rehabilitation project Read More »
Researchers from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources will pilot the use of trail cameras to estimate the state’s elk population as part of a larger research project aimed at determining the most accurate and cost-effective way to manage the elk herd.
The DNR’s Wildlife Division recently set up about 200 cameras in and around the core elk range, which encompasses some 1,100 square miles across northern Lower Michigan.
Michigan DNR researchers to test trail cameras in elk survey Read More »
Spring Run is one of the largest, most diverse complexes in Iowa, stretching from Hwy. 9 to the north to Lower Gar Lake to the southwest. The popular public wildlife area follows along almost the entirety of East Okoboji Lake.
Covering roughly 5,000 acres, the Spring Run complex was dedicated as Iowa’s second Bird Conservation Area in 2002, supporting less common bird species, including marsh wrens, black terns, American bitterns, dickcissels, grasshopper sparrows, bobolinks, northern harriers, upland sandpipers, trumpeter swans, and, most recently, nesting sandhill cranes.
Spring Run complex caters to birders, hunters in the heart of the Iowa Great Lakes Read More »
Hard to believe that it’s “that time” again. Time for old-fashioned archers to get tuned up for deer hunting season.
We are the holdovers, traditionalists, who shoot barebows – longbows, recurves, no sights. We are not elitists, but maybe throwbacks. But we’re stubborn about using our more primitive gear, gear that relies on muscle memory, hand-eye coordination, and practice, practice, practice.
Steve Pollick: Backyard archery range about to get real busy Read More »
The oldest known lake trout in the Great Lakes, 62 years old at the time of capture, recently was documented by researchers at the Michigan Department of Natural Resources Marquette Fisheries Research Station.
This fish was collected from Klondike Reef in Lake Superior in the fall of 2023 by a team of intrepid researchers from the DNR, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Purdue University.
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