Fishing
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
Catching flatheads — the venerable king of the catfish
Common folklore says you can only catch flathead catfish on live bait. True, flatheads love live bait, but many are caught on cut bait and artificial lures.
Another tale is you must fish at
Outdoor Insights: Shining some light on the ‘Make America Beautiful Again Commission’
In the middle of public lands and roadless rules debates, another announcement slipped past the nation’s outdoors media earlier this month. On Thursday, July 3, the Trump administration issued an executive order establishing a Make
Lake Erie celebrated: Governor’s Fish Ohio Day
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and Lt. Gov. Jim Tressel joined a host of other walleye fishermen on Lake Erie Wednesday, July 16, to celebrate the 45th Governor’s Fish Ohio Day.
