Episode 557 – Openers, shotgun zone update, roadless rule, bass changes, cougars and robot rabbits
Top topics on Outdoor News Radio this week include discussion
September 12, 2025
Why is meat from some feral hogs tainted blue?
I used to take my two sons to southern Texas during spring break to bowhunt hogs at a high-fence ranch. (I’m not a beach guy; I’d rather hunt.) In three days of hunting, we’d average a total of about three hogs.
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Mike Schoonveld: Time to feed those invasive carp another plan
If the first person to import Asian carp to North America was a Star Trek fan, when he turned them loose perhaps he repeated the traditional Vulcan phrase Mr. Spock often used, “Live long and prosper.” Regardless of the send-off, the first batch of Asian carp did live long and are still prospering – especially the prospering part.
Since that day, fisheries biologists have adopted a different phrase that dates back to the Crusades, “Kill them all and let God sort them out.” That didn’t work out as well as the Vulcan greeting.
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Michigan’s Dathon Skelton: A decoy carver extraordinaire
Dathon Skelton says working gunning decoys tend to have simpler paint schemes and less detail. He has branched out from carving duck decoys to carving more songbirds. Regardless, he says carving is essential, but painting is often the most challenging part of creating any decoy.
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MN Daily Update: Don’t lean so heavily on trail cameras this deer season
People are leaning on trail cameras more and more when
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WI Daily Update: Don’t lean so heavily on trail cameras this deer season
People are leaning on trail cameras more and more when
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Steve Piatt: How good was the fishing? The hands tell the story
Undertake any weeklong fishing trip and you’ll undoubtedly return home with plenty of pictures. After all, you’re fishing all week, every day. You should be able to catch fish in a bathtub on that schedule. But photos aside, there is a better barometer, a better yardstick, a better glimpse of how good the fishing may have been during the week. Just look at your hands.
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