
Trout have a fatal attraction for ‘fuzzy’ flies
Before the enjoyable madness of matching the hatch begins, a lot of trout – and I mean a lot of trout – fall to attractor flies. Venerable patterns such as the Wooly Bugger, Wooly Worm

Before the enjoyable madness of matching the hatch begins, a lot of trout – and I mean a lot of trout – fall to attractor flies. Venerable patterns such as the Wooly Bugger, Wooly Worm

Some lucky deer hunter eventually will shoot a whitetail with antlers bigger than those atop the buck that Milo Hanson killed Nov. 23, 1993, near his Saskatchewan farm.
No hunter will ever tell a

How do you get a 52-inch muskie through an 8-inch hole in the ice?
“Not easily,” said Brett Baldwin, 25, a McKean County, Pa., angler who faced that once-in-a-lifetime challenge on the Allegheny Reservoir

Pheasant Fest 2026 featured lots of sporting dog attractions, as usual.
On the Bird Dog stage, Dr. RuthAnn Lobos, senior veterinarian at Purina, dispensed reams of preventative wisdom during a seminar at the Minneapolis

Rivers and lakes are natural attractions for kids of all ages and are especially enticing to youngsters who enjoy toting a fishing rig and worm bucket.
John Peterson of Bemidji, Minn., was one of

With its deep channels, red-and-green buoys swaying in the current, barges and bald eagles… if there ever was a real river, it’s the Mississippi.
A real river is one with calm and clear winter

By Illinois standards, the Shawnee National Forest feels different. The land rises and falls in hard ridges and rock bluffs that loom over oak flats. In a state known for cornfields, the Shawnee offers some

“Deer and other wildlife know the difference between ‘low grade hamburger’ and ‘prime ribeye,’ ” J. Wayne Fears said. “Your food plots need to be prime ribeye to attract and hold critters.”
Many people

So you were walking the aisles of the recent Pheasant Fest event and you couldn’t help yourself. You asked a fellow upland bird hunter: What’s the best ring-necked pheasant hunting gun?
In my opinion,
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