Indiana Fishing Report – August 21, 2026
Smallmouth bass are a good bet here, using crankbaits, jerkbaits, ned rigs, and topwater during low-light periods.
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August 21, 2026
New York Fishing Report – August 21, 2026
Inshore salmon fishing has been hot for most anglers here. Anglers have been catching king salmon, brown trout, and Atlantic salmon.
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Donations keep four Michigan waterfowl hunting areas open in 2026, though root of issue remains
A last-minute fundraising effort by Michigan waterfowl hunters and conservation groups will help preserve hunter access at four state-managed waterfowl areas this fall.
Waterfowl hunting advocates have raised $80,000 to provide temporary staffing at four Michigan DNR-managed properties after the agency announced that budget constraints would force it to reduce daily hunting opportunities during the state’s 2026 waterfowl seasons.
Some hunters in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula may earn a second buck through new pilot program
Michigan hunters in five counties will be able to earn a second buck in 2027 through a pilot program approved by the Michigan Natural Resources Commission this month.
The pilot program will coincide with implementation of a one-buck rule approved by the commission in May that’s designed to reduce deer abundance in the Lower Peninsula, while improving buck structure and the buck-to-doe ratio. “The Natural Resources Commission asked that we develop an earn-a-second-buck pilot program to determine the effectiveness of the regulations at increasing antlerless harvest,” Brent Rudolph, the Michigan DNR’s deer, elk, and moose specialist, told Michigan Outdoor News.
Michigan’s statewide fishing report on Aug. 21, 2026
Bass bite holds inland, salmon still strong on Great Lakes. Here’s the Michigan fishing report on Aug. 21, 2026.
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Dan Small Outdoors Radio: Show 2134
Jordan Buck Day celebrates the former world-record typical whitetail on
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Sweeping changes to Pennsylvania elk hunts include revamped zones, rifle rut opportunity
Archery elk season begins Sept. 12, and for the first time in over 10 years the Pennsylvania Game Commission has redrawn the elk hunt zones.
In addition, this fall’s seasons split the regular (rifle) elk hunting season into two separate parts, Oct. 3-11 and Oct. 31-Nov. 8 – with the new session added earlier, while the elk are still in the rut. There are also 15 additional bull elk tags offered for this fall. Combined, these three changes make up the greatest change in Pennsylvania elk hunting since the modern-day elk season began.
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Outdoor Insights: A few thoughts on our Minnesota gubernatorial interviews from Game Fair
Minnesota Outdoor News sponsored gubernatorial interviews at Game Fair the past two weekends. We published a transcript with DFL candidate Amy Klobuchar in last week’s edition, and you can see a transcript from the Saturday, Aug. 15 interview with Republican candidate Lisa Demuth here.
Watch complete videos of the interviews at the Outdoor News YouTube channel. To see their answers, read the edited transcripts or watch the videos, but here’s my quick take.
The strategy behind four decades of Illinois skunk numbers
If you’ve ever driven a back road on a summer night and caught that unmistakable whiff of a striped skunk, you know they’re out there. But for wildlife managers, the real question isn’t whether skunks are around, it is: How many are out there? Where are they thriving? And are their numbers going up or down?
Long-term population monitoring is one of the cornerstones of wildlife management.
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