Hook and Bullet
The 2026 Minnesota Outdoor News Outdoor Leaders Award recipient: Backcountry Hunters & Anglers
It started with one conversation at a pint night.
The Minnesota chapter of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers (BHA-MN) regularly hosts gatherings around the state to connect with deer hunters about Minnesota’s deer herd and
Kristin Ojaniemi: Kids tournaments help hook young Michigan anglers
“There’s pike all around that shore over there. There’s weeds over there but the water is high and you can’t see them right now. But there’s thousands of pike over there.”
As his father
Commentary: Groups send letter to USFWS on wetland easement rules
Groups send letter to USFWS on wetland easement rules
New pheasant stocking plan in New York is taking shape
A few years ago, the New York Department of Environmental Conservation made some improvements to its pheasant stocking program in an effort to attract more new hunters to the sport and retain existing ones.
New York’s statewide fishing and hunting report on Aug. 13, 2026
September will kick off hunting, but there’s still fishing to be done. Here’s the New York fishing and hunting report on Aug. 13, 2026.
Ryan Rothstein: Assessing America’s wildlife recovery journey
We hunters have a certain fondness for tooting our own horns. Whenever there is criticism of hunting, our response almost universally invokes hunters’ role in recovery of wildlife species and the funding our equipment purchases
Another View: The habitat issue and its role in overcrowding public lands
Out-of-state hunting trips are one of my favorite parts of each fall season, but it’s getting harder to find nearby places to travel for Minnesota deer hunters.
I have bowhunted whitetails on public and
Minnesota’s Mike Anderson gets a huge win at national duck calling competition
After 15 years away from the top, Minnesota’s Mike Anderson is a duck calling champion again.
On July 25, Anderson competed in the 5th annual Delta Waterfowl Grand National Duck Calling Contest in Des
Steve Piatt: A rare outing where we actually had to fish for our limit of Lake Erie walleyes
This was going to be easy.
The hard part – getting on the sometimes-surly Lake Erie – was over. Terry Catlin, of Chemung, N.Y.; my brother-in-law Don Stannard, visiting from Florida; and I were
