Attention to detail – video
Examples include the water clarity and temperature, structural locations, weed growth and the depth where fish may be at, cast retrieve and trolling speed, to name a few.
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September 11, 2025
Iowa’s statewide fishing report on Sept. 11, 2025
NORTHWEST Black Hawk Lake Water levels are several inches over the crest of the spillway. Water temperature are in the low 70s. Black Bullhead – Fair: Use nightcrawlers fished on or near bottom from shore. Most bullheads are 10- to 12-inches. Black Crappie – Fair: Try fishing from the fish house in Town Bay and
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Outdoor horoscopes for the week of Sept. 8 to Sept. 14, 2025
♈ Aries (March 21 – April 19) That teal you
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Outdoor Insights: Time to organize a Duck Summit in Minnesota to address dwindling populations
Count Outdoor News among those endorsing Dennis Anderson’s suggestion that the Minnesota DNR should coordinate and host a Duck Summit. Gov. Mark Dayton pitched a Pheasant Summit in 2014, and hunters may actually be enjoying the fruits of those efforts 11 years later.
Last week’s Outdoor News contained an optimistic season outlook for roosters this fall. As for ducks, despite a forecast from the feds last week that was less dire than expected, the long-term trends for quackers continue to slide.
Ohio’s outdoor trailblazers: Peg VanVleet hooks kids on fishing
Peg VanVleet never stood a chance of not being a fisherman.
“My parents were fishers and both set of grandparents were fishers,” said the retired Lake Erie charter fishing captain. “And, my one grandmother was a professional fish cutter. So, as soon as I was old enough to hold a knife I was learning how to cut fish. I just stood across the table from her and mimicked what she did.”
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Persistence, big bucktails, and the right window can turn September into trophy muskie season
Muskie – the fish of 10,000 casts. With a pseudonym as such, one can only assume that it’s difficult to catch. In fact, they’re often revered as the most challenging fish to catch in freshwater. For many, muskie fishing is a labor of love.
The anglers, themselves, are in a class of their own, unlike the vast majority of the angling community. They’re persistent, obsessive, and patient – determined to gain a competitive edge on their targets.
Jeffrey Frischkorn: Come to Pennsylvania’s Cross Fork for the trout, stay for the beauty
Cross Fork doesn’t have a big box outlet, much less one of those dollar-type stores, the ones we used to call five-and-dime stores when I was growing up.
A dot on the map along Pennsylvania’s Route 44, Cross Fork does, though, have between 129 and 155 souls, nearly 93% of whom live in households without kids. Not surprising, given that the average age of a Cross Fork resident is 64 years, compared to the 38 years nationally, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Thus, I am inclined to say that in my 56-year association with Cross Fork, I haven’t seen much in the way of change.
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Early deer season is often all about acorns, but you have to figure out how to hunt the favored forage
Opening-week strategies for bowhunting deer hunters often center on ag fields and food plots. Whether that’s posting up over a sea of soybeans or on half an acre of clover planted just for the deer, the go-to method for killing a buck early in the season tends to involve greenery. This is a solid option – until it’s not.
When it’s not, it’s usually because a better food source has come on strong. For many bowhunters here in Minnesota and throughout the Midwest, the likeliest culprit for ruining a good field-edge hunt is hard mast.
Sportsman profile: Mark Nale, a writer, photographer and activist, living large in Pennsylvania’s Centre Co.
At 74, sportsman Mark Nale, of Port Matilda, Centre County, Pa, is proof that age is much more than a number.
If Nale isn’t targeting wild trout on a central Pennsylvania stream or heading afield with his bow in fall, he’s shooting nature photographs, volunteering on conservation projects, or writing about issues facing hunters and anglers for various publications, including Pennsylvania Outdoor News.
