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PFAS-related consumption advisories issued for ducks, deer and fish in parts of Wisconsin
The alphabet soup of chemical pollutants (DDT, CWD, VHS, HPA, PFAS) just expanded with the release of a consumption advisory for mallards and wood ducks harvested from Green Bay due to the contamination of per-
Why is meat from some feral hogs tainted blue?
I used to take my two sons to southern Texas during spring break to bowhunt hogs at a high-fence ranch. (I’m not a beach guy; I’d rather hunt.) In three days of hunting, we’d average
Michigan’s Dathon Skelton: A decoy carver extraordinaire
Dathon Skelton says working gunning decoys tend to have simpler paint schemes and less detail. He has branched out from carving duck decoys to carving more songbirds. Regardless, he says carving is essential, but painting
Steve Piatt: How good was the fishing? The hands tell the story
Undertake any weeklong fishing trip and you’ll undoubtedly return home with plenty of pictures. After all, you’re fishing all week, every day. You should be able to catch fish in a bathtub on that schedule.
Attention to detail – video
Examples include the water clarity and temperature, structural locations, weed growth and the depth where fish may be at, cast retrieve and trolling speed, to name a few.
Outdoor Insights: Time to organize a Duck Summit in Minnesota to address dwindling populations
Count Outdoor News among those endorsing Dennis Anderson’s suggestion that the Minnesota DNR should coordinate and host a Duck Summit. Gov. Mark Dayton pitched a Pheasant Summit in 2014, and hunters may actually be enjoying
Persistence, big bucktails, and the right window can turn September into trophy muskie season
Muskie – the fish of 10,000 casts. With a pseudonym as such, one can only assume that it’s difficult to catch. In fact, they’re often revered as the most challenging fish to catch in freshwater.
Early deer season is often all about acorns, but you have to figure out how to hunt the favored forage
Opening-week strategies for bowhunting deer hunters often center on ag fields and food plots. Whether that’s posting up over a sea of soybeans or on half an acre of clover planted just for the deer,
Sportsman profile: Mark Nale, a writer, photographer and activist, living large in Pennsylvania’s Centre Co.
At 74, sportsman Mark Nale, of Port Matilda, Centre County, Pa, is proof that age is much more than a number.
If Nale isn’t targeting wild trout on a central Pennsylvania stream or
