Fishing
Dean Bortz: Wisconsin NRB asking for support on DNR fee increase, dedicated funding source on April 13
Conservation Congress delegates have been looking at a dedicated funding source for the Wisconsin DNR’s fish and wildlife programs and the game warden force since at least the early 1990s.
Bob Ellingson served as
Commentary: Your Wisconsin Conservation Congress needs you
As the Wisconsin spring hearings approached, in the spring of 1978, there were noticeable articles in newspapers. There were more outdoor writers then.
Each spring, about that time, they each wrote an inspiring piece
Wisconsin Fishing Report – March 30, 2026
The walleye anglers that had the best action here were using blade-baits and hair jigs.
Opening of Illinois’ Heidecke Lake to be delayed for boat fishermen
The Illinois DNR announced March 30 it will delay the traditional April 1 opening of Heidecke Lake to boaters this year because of unusually low water levels caused by ongoing drought conditions.
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Bill Hilts, Jr.: Getting ready for the ‘inland’ trout opener in New York
April 1 is opening day for the inland trout regular season in New York. It still generates excitement within the angling community, although not as much as when I was a kid over 50 years
Read the water to catch Ohio’s hybrid stripers
Hybrid stripers in rivers are not oriented to cover as much as they use the fluid dynamics of flowing water to their advantage. They seek specific flow patterns to thrive in open water, the areas
Fish the ‘pocket’ water: Where overlooked runs hold big trout potential
Stream trout anglers are largely creatures of habit.
I say largely because there are exceptions to every rule. Still, the stream trout anglers I’ve fished with and learned from over the years adhere to
Great memories made fishing, railroading on Pennsylvania’s Pine Creek in the 1970s
Some of my favorite memories fishing in northern Pennsylvania and southern New York are along Pine Creek and the Genesee River in the 1970s using a now-defunct railroad to travel portions of these waters from
Kentucky project aimed at bigger bass makes key finding
Bigger bass that are more aggressive in chasing an angler’s plastic worm from one end of the lake to the other?
Roughly 96.2% of Illinois fishermen responded, “yes, sign me up!”
That, of
