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Here’s how to work the remarkably weedless, deadly effective bladed jig
It was a blustery fall day with temperatures in the 40s and a slicing north wind that pushed water temperatures into the low 50s.
In my mind, it was perfect for a spinnerbait spun

Michigan’s Sturgeon River steelhead make for decades worth of opener memories
We’ve lost track over the years, but this spring is between our 35th and 40th year that our close-knit group of high school buddies will have spent the trout opener on the Sturgeon River near

Youth turkey hunters break Illinois harvest record
Tilly Jack Cuzzort harvested her first turkey – it most certainly will be the first of many for the 7-year-old Springfield girl.
And that’s exactly what DNR and the state’s hunting community are hoping

More than $15,000 in fines levied on two Mississippi men in Ohio deer poaching case
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife announced on Friday that two Mississippi men pleaded guilty to multiple wildlife violations after poaching white-tailed deer in southeast Ohio. The men were ordered to

Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson offers wolf delisting bill
The battle to permanently delist the gray wolf in the lower 48 states continues at the federal level now that U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) joined two other senators last week to offer their version

Wolf delisting bill moves onto House of Representatives floor
Federal wolf delisting took one small step closer to becoming reality as members of the House Committee on Natural Resources passed the Pet and Livestock Protection Act, H.R. 845, out of committee by vote of

Passion for hunting and fishing still burns bright for Wisconsin’s Marie Skic at 97
In the year Marathon County’s Marie Skic was born, the world was a very different place. Charles Lindbergh was flying across the Atlantic for the first time, penicillin had just been invented, and a film

Catch shad on middle stretch of the Delaware River
In the first milliseconds it’s like a wad of cotton has stuck to your line: heavy, limp, unyielding. This sensation is why anglers often confuse a shad strike with a possible snag.
But as

Notes off a soiled cuff: Fishing license fees in Pennsylvania, and thoughts on ‘Baby’ the pet deer
Looks like the price of fishing licenses won’t increase next year. During his presentation of the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission’s annual report to the Senate Game and Fisheries Committee, Tim Schaeffer, executive director, said