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Wisconsin Cuffs & Collars: Man buys license, registers deer six minutes later
Wisconsin cuffs and collars are field reports from Wisconsin DNR. These reports are from the March 22, 2024, edition of Outdoor News.

State Roundup: Should Wisconsin have a hunting season for sandhill cranes?
I wish I could ask Herb Behnke how he would handle the set-to over whether Wisconsin should have a sandhill crane hunting season.
Many readers may remember Behnke as a longtime Natural Resources Board

A quick chat with turkey fanatic Jeff Budz
To call Jeff Budz a turkey hunting fanatic is a serious understatement. He has more than 35 years of experience hunting, guiding, writing, and filming hunts all over the world.
To Budz, who lives

Floating jerkbaits can take big trout in high, cloudy streams
When it comes to catching trout, there is no shortage of effective methods to get the job done. Flies, live bait, spoons, spinners or salmon eggs – there’s no shortage of opinions on what the

Brining and smoking warm-water fish species makes for a delicious treat
By now, there has been plenty of time to amass many packages of fish fillets into the freezer. Between walleyes, white bass, crappies, or various catfish species, there has been many months to get out

Creating another generation of turkey hunters: Keys to getting started
Minnesota’s youth turkey season begins April 17, the kickoff to six weeks of excitement as the spring woods come alive.
These days, youth turkey hunts have become a common gateway experience to other hunting

Ohio Reader Stories: Young hunter shoots big buck in short order
“There’s no way, dude. I sat there for five seconds!”
These were Dominic Mormino’s first words after he made the shot. They came out a little broken and high-pitched due to the adrenaline dump,

Top strategies for catching bass in the shallows
Of course, we all know that bass numbers increase in the shallows during the spring. However, not all bass make the move from spring shallows to offshore areas during summer months.

Catch big trout below dams in Pennsylvania this spring
Pennsylvania is loaded with man-made reservoirs. These were not built for the purpose of creating a downstream trout mecca, but that has been the result with many.
The cold-water outlets of these dams have