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Miss Meg, our nearly 10-year-old Brittany lays on the couch adjacent to my desk as I write these words. Meg is lucky she’s a dog this year. She doesn’t read Outdoor News, so she doesn’t know to expect some tough sledding for pheasant hunting this year. She lays there, occasionally opening one brown eye to […]

Sept. 9: The 5th annual fall fishing, hunting & sporting collectibles swap meet will be held at the Medina Entertainment Center on Hwy 55. Call Terry at 612-865-4092 for info. Sept. 9-10: Minnesota Weapons Collectors Assn. will have a show at the St. Cloud Civic Center. For more info. call 612-721-8976. Sept. 23-24: Elks 19th

Bismarck, N.D. When the history of the In-Fisherman Professional Walleye Tour is written, the year 2000 might well be titled, “The Year Ron Seelhoff Took Command.” Seelhoff, 50, won the $100,000 PWT championship last month on the Missouri River at Bismarck and in doing so added to a list of achievements that has distinguished himself

Sept. 18 – Oct. 23: Advanced Hunter Education Classes a DNR sponsored course covering small game, waterfowl, big game, survival, hunting laws and ethics will be held at the Fairview Community School Center in Roseville. Classes will run six consecutive Mondays from 6:45-9:45 p.m. for ages 14 and up. $15 fee, for additional information and

The Okauchee Fishing Club meets at 7 p.m. at the Red Carpet West Allis, Lower Level Hall, 10901 W. Lapham Ave. on the first and third Tuesday of each month with a variety of speakers and subjects covering all aspects of fishing in Wisconsin. Guest fee $2. The Milwaukee Chapter of Muskies, Inc., meets the

Land O’ Lakes, Wis. Troy Martinez, of Oconomowoc, will likely see his name in the Wisconsin record books after he took a 640-pound black bear with bow and arrow Friday, Sept. 8, west of Land O’ Lakes in Vilas County. Martinez and his friend, Al “Buck” Janny, also of Land O’ Lakes, had been hunting

State bear and bow deer hunters appear to be off to a good start, based on preliminary returns from registration stations. On the bear side of things, bait hunters reported good success, but the bruins seemed to come off the baits somewhat about eight days into the season and just as the hound hunters were

Nov. 4-5 and Jan. 13-14: Mosquito Hill Nature Center will have its snowshoe building workshops. The cost is $150, or $140 for friends Mosquito Hill members. Call 920-779-6433 for details.

As we drove down the gravel road looking for a likely spot to hunt the next day, we saw a small flock of ducks circle into the wind and sail behind a screen of trees. “Did you see those?” I asked my hunting partners. “There must be some sort of marsh back there. We turned