Pennsylvania’s statewide fishing report on May 1, 2025
Staff Report
May 1, 2025
Panfish are paramount now in lakes across the state. Here’s a look at the Pennsylvania fishing report on May 1, 2025.
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Breaking down the many black bass subspecies beyond largemouths and smallmouths
Louie Stout
May 1, 2025
Ask most Outdoor News followers to name the different species of black bass and, most likely, you’ll hear largemouth and smallmouth.
Rightly so. Those are the primary species of bass we have in northern
Focus on these important details to trigger a tom
Mark Strand
May 1, 2025
According to my turkey-hunting mentor, Ray Eye, skilled hunters in the Missouri Ozarks have forever wished there was no such thing as a spring season. Why? Because they think it’s not fair to hunt gobblers
Commentary: Value of public lands is enhanced by conservation. Here’s what that means
Boone and Crockett Club Report
April 30, 2025
The U.S. federal public land estate is an American legacy the Boone and Crockett Club will support forever. Since our founding in 1887, whenever the suggestion has been made that public land be disposed of
Lotteries open for moose, elk hunts in eastern states
Steve Piatt
April 29, 2025
Big game hunters annually look to hit the jackpot – and every year a few do. Maybe even someone you know.
And this year, it could even be you.
Not the Mega Millions.
Notes off a soiled cuff: What is limiting the growth potential of Pennsylvania’s elk herd?
Jeff Mulhollem
April 28, 2025
Living part time in Pennsylvania’s elk range for awhile, not long ago, I became enamored and fascinated by the majestic animals. With so much good habitat for them to spread out in the Northern Tier,
Artists, fish-lure makers give floating trash a new life
Patrick Durkin
April 26, 2025
A social-media friend recently sent me a link to YouTube videos about using “feminine napkins” as bait for catching bass, catfish, lake trout, and rainbow trout.
He considered the videos “LOL,” and said the
Here’s how to stalk the aggressive spring pickerel in Pennsylvania
Vic Attardo
April 26, 2025
The stalks rising from the lake’s silted bottom were thick, heavy and straight, like a wooden fence row.
Everything seemed calm until I saw a flash of green poke through the slats. Then the
For young Pennsylvania fly-tying phenom, it’s fish, fish, fish
Deborah Weisberg
April 25, 2025
Karrie and Doug Sampsel had little idea that the $40 fly-tying kit they gave their son, Landis, for Christmas when he was 10 would ignite a passion.
“He’s always been a fisherman, and so
