Fishing
Outdoor Insights: Update on muskie study from Minnesota’s Leech Lake, and a salute to Brown County PF
At the MN-Fish board meeting last Thursday, Aug. 7, Bemidji State grad student Baylor Short presented an update on the Leech Lake muskie study, which kicked off in May.
The research began in response
Ohio State football coach, Brian Hartline, keynotes outdoorsmen’s fair event
Sportsmen and women from across Ohio once again traveled to the Ohio State Fair to attend a “Sportsmen’s Summer Celebration” at the ODNR Natural Resources Park in late July.
The ODNR Division of
Fly fishing the ant drop: Be ready for the best river smallmouth action
When I picked up the flailing smallmouth and looked down its throat to remove my fly, the bass appeared to have swallowed a can of black pepper.
Its boney lips, mouth and gullet were
Michigan Fishing Report – August 13, 2025
Anglers reported catching good numbers of lake trout while trolling spoons and flasher flies here.
Pro Fishing Tip of the Week: Pike presentations, as sunnie fishing slows
With the summer winding down and the kids getting tired of catching panfish, maybe it’s time to try something new.
Many anglers frown upon northern pike fishing, but these fish can be fun to
Steve Carney: Those pesky perch, and a serious rice crop that bodes well for Minnesota duck season
It’s been a tough fishing season so far for me on Otter Tail Lake, one of the most iconic walleye lakes in Minnesota. This was my go-to lake for decades, but recently the amazing perch
Walleye, trout and salmon Minnesota stamp winners named
Shoreview artist Scott Wenner has won the Minnesota 2026 trout and salmon stamp contest with an acrylic painting of a brown trout, and Shakopee artist Mark Thone is the winner of the walleye stamp contest
Outdoor Observations: Social media reaction sours experience of setting Michigan’s new flathead catfish record
We live in a world heavily dependent upon social media.
For many of our readers this is a far cry from how we grew up. It really wasn’t that long ago when you caught
Bob Gwizdz: How Lake Erie became a world class walleye fishery
Guys my age remember when Lake Erie was called the Dead Sea.
It was an amalgam of industrial waste and sewage, so polluted that one of its tributaries – the Cuyahoga River – actually
