Hunting
Best in years? Excellent fishing pattern developing for fall walleyes in 2014
Jig-n-minnow, crankbaits, and live-bait rigs all provide top presentations for autumn walleyes
Wisconsin making a trial run on electronic deer registration
We’ve heard that 14,000 deer hunters, about 200 from every county, have been randomly selected to participate, albeit optionally, in a proposed electronic registration system.
Inner-City Youth Hunting Program Has Its Bullets Mount Up
Camp Compass Students Receive Mounts at Cabela’s
Whitetail Alliance suggests restraint
A growing and determined group of hunters in Illinois is borrowing strategy from a national waterfowl organization as part of an attempt to resurrect the state’s slumping deer herd.
Trapping licenses will be subject to new law
As veteran trapper Neal Graves put it, “trapping is no longer stuck in the 1960s and ‘70s.”
Flyway Vision: ducks may not use rivers to navigate
What we long assumed about ducks and how they navigate their way south down the Illinois River Valley each fall may not be true.
Duck forecast has waterfowlers flying high
At 9 a.m. on Sept. 27, across large marshes and small potholes, from lakes and rivers and sloughs, over wild rice beds and backwater swamps, and from boat blinds and shore blinds and every other
New panfish bag, size limits now under review
Anglers may not be interested in major changes to Wisconsin’s panfish regulations, but they appear to be willing to consider tighter regulations on specific lakes deemed by the DNR to have overharvest issues.
Burnett County celebrates ‘Jordan Buck’ centennial
It’s the nature of hunters to tell and re-tell the stories of their hunting triumphs, but few of these stories survive more than a generation.
