Steve Carney: Proper care for your fish fillets is important during raging summer heat
Steve Carney
July 29, 2026
Catching shallow walleyes, and keeping them fresh during a ragingly hot summer
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Pro Fishing Tip of the Week: Minnesota’s mid-summer smallmouth report
Justin Lightfoot
July 29, 2026
Smallmouth bass fishing is heating up across the Otter Tail area as fish settle into their summer patterns. Rock piles, boulder fields, and main-lake points in 10 to 25 feet of water are producing some
Steve Pollick: Trail cam images give the itch of archery hunt
Steve Pollick
July 29, 2026
The trail cams have been sending a loud and clear message lately on Pollick Clan hunting grounds: Get ready!
Handline fishing still in practice today for minimalist anglers
Robert Bukk
July 28, 2026
Adam Nelson likes to say that he was “born in the national parks.”
His father served as a park ranger, outside national parks in California and Wyoming and a national recreation area in Pennsylvania.<br
Greg Seubert: The quiet magic of the Wisconsin lake I hate to tell you about
Greg Seubert
July 26, 2026
As far as Northwoods fishing destinations go, a small lake in Wisconsin’s Taylor County probably isn’t on anyone’s list.
Except mine, and that’s the way I want it to stay. On paper, the 23-acre
New York Reader Stories: Lessons of patience, perseverance, and faith from the turkey woods
Peter J. Barbeto
July 26, 2026
My 2026 turkey season started on a sad note with a longbeard coming my brother’s and my way only to hear five rapid-fire shots in the next field and the bird eluding us. There was
Megan Plete: Good friends, good water on Massachusetts’ Deerfield River
Megan Plete
July 25, 2026
Every spring, the Northeast chapter of the American Daughters of Conservation gathers for a day spent fly-fishing on Massachusetts’ Deerfield River.
Some arrive with years of experience behind a fly rod, while others are making
Anglers rediscover vintage fishing gear
Steve Heiting
July 25, 2026
Taking a deep breath, I eyed the swirling river my grandfather introduced me to nearly 60 years ago. Shiners that I had trapped as he once taught me splashed in a bucket on shore. A
Murphy’s Law for sportsmen (or if you’re anything like me)
Rev. David Lee Jones, Th.D.
July 25, 2026
If you’re anything like me, it never fails that your perfect cast of the topwater plug to that big largemouth bass lurking just under the lily pad is smacked instead by a 6-inch pickerel.
