Fishing
Fish sampling season luring anglers’ eyes in Illinois
As Illinois fishermen, this we know: Biologists and their crews aren’t sharing photos and catch reports from spring sampling sessions simply to tease and aggravate us. Pulling giant muskies, bass, and catfish into their boats
Can nature be nonpartisan in 2025? New nonprofit aims to make it so
Benji Backer wants to bring political conservatives back into the environmental conversation.
The 27-year-old from Seattle recently launched a nonprofit called Nature is Nonpartisan. He did it from Belle Fourche, S.D. – the self-described
Wisconsin’s spawning sturgeon on the Fox River mean an opportunity for research
A local high school fishing club was able to get up close and personal with spawning lake sturgeon on the Fox River in Wisconsin.
The annual sturgeon spawning ritual on the Fox River in
Artists, fish-lure makers give floating trash a new life
A social-media friend recently sent me a link to YouTube videos about using “feminine napkins” as bait for catching bass, catfish, lake trout, and rainbow trout.
He considered the videos “LOL,” and said the
Here’s how to stalk the aggressive spring pickerel in Pennsylvania
The stalks rising from the lake’s silted bottom were thick, heavy and straight, like a wooden fence row.
Everything seemed calm until I saw a flash of green poke through the slats. Then the
Pam Allen — a ‘mover and shaker’ — earns Ohio Outdoor News’ Person of the Year honor
Pam Allen is a mover and a shaker in the fly-fishing world that involves Ohio.
But, Allen stresses that she can’t accomplish anything alone. Allen, of Lewis Center in central Ohio, was recently named
Ely, Grand Marais ranger stations in Minnesota redirect Boundary Waters permitting
In late-April, people who already planned to pick up their Boundary Water Canoe Area Wilderness permits from two ranger stations in Ely and Grand Marais received emails saying they’d have to make other plans.
Wisconsin’s Pete Olson, a coach and avid muskie angler, dies on 90th birthday
“When I die, I know I’m not going to heaven because I’m there now,” Pete Olson said. “I fish every day and coach basketball during the winter.”
Olson, well-known retired basketball coach and avid
Bill Hilts, Jr.: New York’s Lake Erie perch action heating up
It was a winter that didn’t want to let go … and a spring that didn’t want grab hold and give us some decent weather. Finally, Easter weekend, the ice (finally) departed Lake Erie in
