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Top new ice fishing tackle, gear for the 2023-24 season
Take a look at the new gear for the 2023-24 ice fishing campaign and it’s easy to get excited for the upcoming hardwater season.
Tungsten jigs and lures remain a priority for manufacturers, while

Wisconsin DNR Warden of the Year Bryan Lockman has seen a little bit of everything on the job
On Sept. 9 DNR Warden Supervisor Bryan Lockman received “The Watch,” a gold pocket watch given each year to the Wisconsin DNR’s game warden of the year by the Noyes family.
A couple months

User-pay funding falls short for conservation challenges in Michigan
Resource management in Michigan mainly receives funding through a user pay format that puts the majority of the burden on hunters and anglers. A sales tax in Missouri helps fund conser vation programs such as

Holiday Reading List: These books are sure to please outdoor enthusiasts
I look forward to this article every year. Not so much for the writing of it, but for the reading I enjoy while I’m trying to meet my editors’ deadline. (Sorry, Dean and Rob) I

Best headlamp options for ice fishing, hunting, camping, everything out-of-doors
Sometime in the past 20 years, outdoors users realized that when one hand wasn’t devoted to holding a flashlight, the things we needed to do in the dark got easier.
Relatively simple by design,

Is that old spinning reel worth saving?
While (sort of) nibbling away at the inside of my cheek, I also mulled a spinning reel’s exterior workings.
The mental debate became whether the reel was salvageable or disposable. It happens eventually with

Writings of former outdoor humor columnist Pat McManus are health aid for the outdoorsmen
A silver lining of my wife’s recent resolve to monitor my blood pressure is that I rediscovered Pat McManus.
Protocol dictates that I sit, comfortable and relaxed, for several minutes before the electric sleeve

Striped bass management meetings coming up in New York, public comments welcome through Dec. 22
The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission will hold two public hearings in New York as it seeks public input on striped bass management.
The New York hearings are among several being held in
Wisconsin Mixed Bag: Contest open for Wisconsin County Forest Association vehicle license plate design
The Wisconsin County Forests Association is seeking interested artists to design a new special license plate through a competitive design contest. After selection, the winning design will appear on license plates made available to Wisconsin