Hook and Bullet
Bill Hilts, Jr.: Melissa Bachman, keynote speaker at upcoming New York expo, is a mentor for women, youth hunters
Sport, travel and outdoors shows are a great way to network and meet people in the hunting and fishing fraternity.
In preparation for attending the Western New York Sport and Travel Expo at the
Bobcats, skunks biggest stars at Illinois fur sale
Illinois trappers and hunters sold 374 raccoons, 250 muskrats, and 177 beavers during the annual Illinois Trappers Association Fur sale last month in Strasburg. The three species easily dominated the sale – at least when
Month of March means trophy walleyes after ice out on Michigan rivers
Savvy Michigan anglers get a head start on the 2026 open water season for walleyes by targeting major rivers that walleyes run sometime in March.
Rotund walleyes, fat as pigs, stage well before the
What stands out from Wisconsin’s overall deer season in 2025? A deep look into the numbers
Harvest totals for the 2025 deer season in Wisconsin were not yet final, but as of Jan. 20, hunters had registered 339,481 deer through all seasons.
Ryan Haffele, Department of Natural Resources (DNR) acting
A little redemption in the Ohio whitetail woods for this nonresident
As someone who lives outside Ohio, I consider myself lucky to have had the opportunity to hunt on private land in the Buckeye State for the past decade.
My hunting experiences have taken me
The Nature Conservancy adds nearly 1,000 acres to Wisconsin’s Colburn Wildlife Area
In a major boost for one of Wisconsin’s most ecologically significant regions, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has secured nearly 1,000 acres of jack pine/oak forest and wetlands in the Central Sands Region, linking protected habitat
Burbot through the ice are late winter’s overlooked opportunity
Pity the poor burbot. Too long scorned and dismissed, unlovely and unloved. At best an occasional nuisance while pursuing “real” fish like the mighty walleye. At worst, lumped in with carp and other “rough fish”
Jeffrey Frischkorn: This firearm made a recent hog hunt more special
The boar was not so big, though hardly a (formerly) squealing little piglet. Not by Florida wild hog hunting standards.
At maybe 100 pounds, the boar thus fell under the unofficial heading of being
Five tips to put you on more shed deer antlers
It’s been said before: Shed hunting is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Think about it: Any given buck can literally travel for miles from when deer begin dropping antlers in December
