Fishing
Metro Area Fishing Report – July 20, 2025 – video
The key word this week – adapt.
Work of a North Dakota game warden about more than just enforcing the law
For many, a career as a game warden might sound like a dream job. A life spent outdoors, checking fishing licenses and keeping hunters safe and catching poachers. For most the job goes far beyond
5 ways to retrieve a swimbait that triggers more walleyes – video
Learn when to use each retrieve, why they trigger bites, and which swimbaits and gear setups work best with each one.
Bigger-than-average pike are in Minnesota waters, but they aren’t easy to find or catch
It wasn’t long ago when if you walked into a mom-and-pop bait shop in the Upper Midwest, you’d see a plus-sized northern pike mounted on the wall. A faded, stuffed pike was almost as ubiquitous
New York Fishing Report – July 18-25, 2025
Anglers have been doing well fishing for brown trout on this famed fishery.
Michigan Outdoor News Fishing Report – July 18, 2025 – video
We’re in our mid-summer patterns now. As for the bite, the Great Lakes a good place to start.
Joint Finance Committee eliminates hunting, fishing license fee hikes in Wisconsin
Wisconsin’s hunters, trappers, and anglers will likely have mixed reactions to the new state budget that was hurriedly put together by the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee (JFC) and signed by Gov. Tony Evers on July
When the river gets high and muddy, go catfishing
I watched Pennsylvania’s Schuylkill River rise from a frisky bulldog flow to something definitely flooded and unfishable.
At first the water carried a slight tinge, like a weak cup of coffee with a little
August is prime time for salmon on Lake Michigan; here’s where to target them
August is prime time for salmon on the Great Lakes. Both kings and cohos begin homing in on ports where they were stocked years earlier or staging off river mouths where they were naturally reproduced.<br
