Fishing
Metro Area Fishing Report – September 15, 2024 – video
These warmer temps have things moving (slightly) back into summer patterns. The bigger fish are somewhere in between, but you’ll find fish all over.
Bill Smith, Wisconsin NRB chair, shares vision with outdoor media
Bill Smith, chair of Wisconsin’s Natural Resources Board (NRB), has weathered a period of turmoil and change on the board, which sets policy for the Department of Natural Resources (DNR).
“Ever since 1967 there
Fallen heroes mark the path to Ohio fishing spots
They stand at attention, alone and silent at their final deployment. They are not standing in a faraway jungle or desolate desert.
They stand guard along Ohio highways. Their uniforms have been replaced with
Patrick Durkin: Fresh fish took direct path to Mom’s heart
I don’t know the secret to creating a hunter, trapper or angler, but a key to failing those goals is a mother who won’t drive her kids to the woods or waters, and cook whatever
Michigan’s Mike Kelly is the champion the Saginaw Bay watershed needs
The 7,000 miles of rivers that flow through the 8,700 square miles of the Saginaw Bay watershed have a long history of ecological calamity.
Dioxins in the Tittabawassee River, PFAS in the Shiawassee River,
Free fishing lure library appears in Wisconsin’s Hayward area
When Wisconsin high school senior Ethan Constantine approached Max Wolter, the DNR’s Sawyer County’s fish biologist, about ideas for an Eagle Scout project, the two put their heads together and came up with a unique
Perch spreaders losing ground to homemade perch ‘rigs’
More than 60 years ago when I began perch fishing with my dad and grandfather, the standard operating procedure was to use a wire spreader with two snelled hooks, each baited with an emerald shiner.<br
Oldest conservation group in New York gets new leadership
The oldest conservation organization in New York has been under the same leadership for more than a decade, but that is changing.
Chuck Parker, who has guided the New York State Conservation Council as
Another 100-pounder hits the scales at Alton Catfish Classic in Illinois
The roster of 100-pound fish pulled from the Mississippi River at Alton, Ill., continues to grow, much like the massive blue catfish that attract anglers from across the country.
A team competing in the
