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Colleen Foehrenbacher: Three reasons I’m obsessed with chasing gobblers
If you head into the woods to chase turkeys on a spring morning in southeast Minnesota where I live you’ll likely hear gobbles echoing from every direction. Every gobble tells you a bird is close,

Pennsylvania senior couple scores rare ‘triple trophies’ in same license year
It is difficult to earn a triple trophy award – a Pennsylvania buck, bear and wild turkey in the same license year. It is even more difficult for a married couple to achieve it during

Here’s how to ethically catch spawning-time bass
In Minnesota, largemouth and smallmouth bass typically move onto their beds when water temperatures reach between 55 and 70 degrees. Smallmouth are earlier than largemouth bass but on lakes that have both species you don’t

Commentary: Fish and wildlife directors should serve natural resources, not politicians
In Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, and Wisconsin, the Departments of Natural Resources are led by political appointees with little to no formal training or experience in fish and wildlife.
Nationally, about 60% of all

Ohio’s spring turkey kill ahead of last year as season nears its end
With three weeks down for Ohio’s South Zone wild turkey hunting season – and two weeks for the five-county Northeast Zone, participants were rounding third and heading for home.
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Ohio’s statewide fishing and hunting report on May 28, 2026
Crappies still holding deeper as spring progresses. Here’s the Ohio fishing and hunting report on May 28, 2026.

Ohio’s Outdoor Trailblazers: Tom Kirker is a ‘nature boy’ at heart
When Tom Kirker was growing up in the Columbus suburb of Bexley, the last thing one thought he would be was an outdoorsman and lover of all things nature.
Alas, Bexley is inner city,

Jeremiah Haas: What Quad Cities anglers need to know about lake sturgeon
Lake sturgeon are a fish species that create stories of a lifetime for many anglers. To pursue them, historically, you had to either go to Lake Winnebago in Wisconsin, St. Croix River, or to the

Dan Ladd: Hoping for a successful late turkey season
Anyone who has ever played a sport of any kind, whether it was baseball or basketball in high school, or even bowling, billiards or golf (or more likely today, pickellball) knows what a slump is.<br