Hunting
Ohio’s statewide fishing and hunting report on April 18, 2025
Flooded waters receding, fishing has been tough. Here’s a look at the Ohio fishing and hunting report on April 18, 2025.
Patience is often the right approach in turkey hunting
As a new turkey hunter, the minute I heard a gobble in the distance, my first instinct was to get up and head towards the bird, cutting the distance between us.
The second
Commentary: Boundary Waters advocates celebrate U.S. senator’s attempt to protect the wilderness
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, Sportsmen for the Boundary Waters, and Minnesota Trout Unlimited on April 9 commended U.S. Sen. Tina Smith, a Minnesota Democrat, for introducing the Boundary Waters Wilderness Protection Act to permanently protect
Steve Piatt: The sounds, and feelings, mark the true start of spring
Sure, the calendar said March 20 was officially the first day of spring, but like any other year, I paid no attention to that designation.
Neither, too, do many wildlife species. Spring isn’t a
Video: Scouting leads to a tom on Minnesota’s spring turkey opener
Eric Morken spent a lot of time looking for birds, talking to landowners and scouting new properties ahead of Minnesota’s turkey opener on April 16, 2025. It paid dividends with a filled tag on a
Want to kill a gobbler? Just like hunting whitetails, scouting ups your odds
As a mostly casual turkey hunter, it took me years to really grab onto the concept of scouting for turkeys. After all, they gobble, so they’ll tell you where they are, right? That’s true sometimes,
Minnesota hunting incidents up slightly in 2024, with one fatality
Minnesota’s 2024 hunting-related injury incidents were the highest they’d been since 2013, with 14 total injuries involving firearms use while hunting, and one fatality in Clay County that happened on the firearms deer season opener.
Illinois trapping season ends, fur marketing begins
Now that the beaver season is over, trappers are fully into marketing mode and have a range of options.
As for how Illinois trappers did during the 2024-25 season, it’s a bit early to
Details emerge in wolf case from southeast Minnesota
The Minnesota DNR has released more details regarding a wolf shot and killed in Fillmore County in early January.
DNR Enforcement’s incident report states that the kill is believed to have occurred around Jan.
