Fishing
Mixed Bag: DNR seeks input on proposed special fishing regs
The Minnesota DNR is asking for input on several special fishing regulation proposals. Each year, the agency reviews all existing fishing regulations, proposes new special regulations that apply to individual waters, and asks the public
Part four of Ernest Hemingway’s “Big Two-Hearted River”
Editor’s note: Below we conclude our four-part reprinting of Ernest Hemingway’s 100-year-old short story “Big Two-Hearted River.” Just 26 years old when he published the story in a collection called “In Our Time,” in 1925,
Outdoor Insights: Former U.S. Forest Service Chief Mike Dombeck on why killing the Roadless Rule is bad for hunters, anglers
Mike Dombeck led the rulemaking process as chief of the U.S. Forest Service under Clinton. Originally from northwestern Wisconsin, he spent a career in public service, mostly in fisheries, earning multiple degrees, including a masters
Southeast Minnesota streams get a flushing; outlook is good
Despite the past week’s rainstorms that swelled and muddied rivers and streams and rendered them temporarily unfishable, stream-trout fishing across Minnesota has been good so far this year entering the July 4th holiday weekend, state
Minnesota DNR asks anglers for input on plan for four walleyes
Changes in lake habitat, ecology, and conditions, coupled with technological advances in fishing gear and methods, are prompting the Minnesota DNR to seek public input on a possible reduction in the statewide walleye possession limit
Pro Fishing Tip of the Week: Don’t let FFS get in the way of fishing
Forward-facing sonar has changed fishing forever. It helps you stay on fish and shows what is happening in real time, but I have seen many anglers rely on it too much. I’ve watched people spend
Annual Perry County, Ohio, kids fishing event another success
Despite a long-range weekend forecast for stormy weather in Perry County, Ohio, that called for heavy rain, the annual Perry County Sheriff’s Office Hooked on Fishing Not on Drugs (HOFNOD) day took place Saturday, June
Turns out Pennsylvania’s Presque Isle bass are color-sensitive
My friend, Dave Bates, an outdoor communicator from southwest Pennsylvania, asked if I would help him catch some of the bass in Presque Isle when we gathered for a recent writers’ conference in Erie.
Pennsylvania’s Woodbourne Rod and Gun Club, one of the northeast’s oldest, celebrates 100 years
Members of the Woodbourne Rod and Gun Club in Pike County, Pa., will celebrate their centennial in September with a pig roast.
It was on Labor Day weekend in 1925 that Jacob Scheese and
