Harrisburg — Pheasants, Squirrels. Rabbits, Turkeys. Waterfowl. Junior hunters across Pennsylvania have their own special seasons for each. They are days set aside, before the regular opening day for adults, when they can pursue those species. Are beavers next? Or maybe muskrats or something else? The Pennsylvania Game Commission is at least looking into the idea of holding a special…
Outdoor News’ Kristen Monroe and Tim Lesmeister talk Lake of the Woods during the Association of Great Lakes Outdoors Writers’ (AGLOW) conference, being held this week on the famed lake in northwestern Minnesota. Categories: Fishing, Minnesota Videos, News Tags: AGLOW, Association of Great Lakes Outdoors Writers, Kristen Monroe, Lake of the Woods, Outdoor News, Tim Lesmeister
(Photo by Jim Nandory) Wisconsin Outdoor News reader Jim Nandory, of Fort Atkinson, captured this photo of two white deer on Sept. 15 while traveling about eight miles east of Fort Atkinson in the town of Helenville in Jefferson County. He saw the fawn first and stopped to watch it. The fawn kept looking back across the small field, and…
Plymouth, Minn. — When you snap photos of your buck this fall, remember to submit them to the 2017 Best Buck Photo Contest appearing in the Outdoor News publications. The annual photo contest is now open to hunting enthusiasts in each of the seven Great Lakes states where outdoorsmen and women can read Outdoor News: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan,…
Wildlife Research Center in Ramsey, Minn., will sponsor Melissa Bachman’s appearance at the 2018 Minnesota Outdoor News Deer & Turkey Classic, March 9-11 in the Warner Coliseum at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds. Bachman, a headliner at the annual show, is a well-known hunting television personality and currently hosts the Winchester Deadly Passion series on the Sportsman Channel. Wildlife Research Center is a leader…
Plymouth, Minn. — Outdoor News, Inc., publisher of locally written fishing and hunting outdoor newspapers in seven Great Lake states, has partnered with Cabela’s, the World’s Foremost Outfitter of hunting, fishing and outdoor gear, for the annual Youth Writing Contest for students in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and Illinois. Outdoor News, Inc. has promoted the writing contest…
Pittsburgh — Never were chubs and other rough fish so important to fly-fishermen. At the 2017 Youth World Fly-Fishing Championship held in Slovenia earlier this summer, teams of young anglers from all over the world flew in to compete. That included the U.S. youth fly-fishing team. Competitors fished specific waters, and specific portions, or “beats,” on those waters, to see…
Albany — A western New York congressman is proposing federal measures that would effectively protect Second Amendment rights and, in doing so, effectively repeal the controversial SAFE Act gun legislation in New York state. U.S. Rep. Chris Collins, R-Erie, outlined his “Second Amendment Guarantee Act” late last month, which would limit a state’s authority to regulate the design, manufacture, sale…
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Outdoor News, Inc., and Kinetic Performance Dog Food have announced that a photo by Steve Oehlenschlager of his black Lab, Katie, is the grand prize-winner in the 2017 Huntin’ Buddy Photo Contest Bird dog enthusiasts in Minnesota were encouraged to submit a photo of their hunting dog for a chance to win a year’s supply of Kinetic Performance Dog Food….
Waddington, N.Y. — In a fishing hole generally regarded as one of the finest bass hotspots in the country, perhaps it’s only fitting the man who’s arguably the greatest bass angler of all time won the Bassmaster Elite Series event last month on the St. Lawrence River. And while Kevin VanDam obliterated the field with a four-day weight total of…
Taylor Drury, of Drury Outdoors TV, with a 16-point buck taken last year in Iowa. The antlers scored 184 inches gross. Drury will be one of the personalities at this weekend’s BowFest at the Mont du Lac Resort near Duluth.Superior, Wis. — BowFest is coming. And fast. The all-things-archery event is scheduled this Friday through Sunday, Aug. 4-6 at Mont…
Winter, Wis. — After another successful winter trapping effort in Kentucky, 31 elk were released recently from their quarantine pen in northern Wisconsin and are now roaming their new home in the Flambeau River State Forest. This year’s “release herd” represents the third year of Wisconsin’s elk translocation efforts from Kentucky and the first year that elk have been released…
Blue catfish like this have been gone from Pennsylvania reaches of the Ohio River drainage since 1880. Conditions for them to return appear to be good now. Photo courtesy LearnToCatchCatfish.com Harrisburg — An effort to bring back one long-gone species worked, but only to a degree. Might this go better? The Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission for years worked to…
Mike and Kyle Komorowski from Oak Creek, Wis., teamed to win the Badwater Bash bass-fishing tournament.Mike and Kyle Komorowski from Oak Creek, Wis., registered six bass weighing a total of 15.1 pounds to win the recent Badwater Bash bass-fishing tournament on the Twin Falls Flowage in Spread Eagle, Wis. They received a cash prize of $1,316. The largest single bass,…
Rein Golubjatnikov, right, weighs in his 8-pound, 2-ounce largemouth bass that propelled him to a second-place finish in the Bassmaster Junior Championship. (Photo courtesy of Bassmaster.com)Huntingdon, Tenn. — It took two anglers to knock New York’s Rein Golubjatnikov out of the top spot in the Bassmaster Junior Championship last month on Carroll County 1,000 Acre Recreational Lake in northwest Tennessee….
St. Paul — There won’t be a “new” walleye survey conducted on Lake Mille Lacs this fall, as has been reported widely across Minnesota media platforms, including in an Associated Press article that briefly appeared on the Outdoor News website. The AP story was based on an interview with Gov. Mark Dayton, who had referenced the fall survey that Minnesota…
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The images were taken May 13 and then again May 24, and show what looks to be a large cat making its way across the property.
New York Outdoor News editor Steve Piatt mentored Skylar Conklin, 14, of Sayre, Pa., and helped her harvest her first turkey while hunting in Bradford County, Pennsylvania. Categories: Hunting, New York Videos, Pennsylvania Videos, Turkey Tags: Hunting, New York Outdoor News, Pennsylvania, Wild turkeys
Supporters, opponents make push as plan nears final approval.
Hunters harvested an estimated 333,254 deer in 2016-17, the commission said – an increase of about 6 percent compared to the agency’s 2015-16 harvest estimate of 315,813.
Winners who couldn’t attend awards ceremony and did not receive a ribbon or first-place Cabela’s gift card should contact Eric Meyer at (763) 537-3326.
It was a second poor ice fishing season in a row for much of the state, with only the colder lakes and ponds of the Adirondacks seeing an extended ice fishing season. And even the northernmost parts of the state suffered when record warmth in late February melted much of the ice and snow.
A pioneer in the outdoors communications field, Tuma has brought the sport of fishing to the public through radio, television, articles, seminars, and now social media.
For the past 27 years, youth groups including 4-H, Scout troops, and school classes have participated in the program, geared toward constructing and installing wood duck nesting boxes by youths.
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