Opinions
Wisconsin Letters to the Editor: Keep it simple; live sonar is the wrong answer for fishing
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the May 16, 2025, edition of Wisconsin Outdoor News.
Commentary: Why no DNR wolf estimate in latest monitoring report from Wisconsin?
The latest Wisconsin DNR Wolf Monitoring Report, furnished to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, contains no wolf population estimate. Why is the previous winter’s wolf estimate different from any other year, when Wisconsin DNR
Commentary: Years of work, and 8,000 acres protected around the Mississippi River’s headwaters
A years-long effort to permanently protect the Mississippi River’s headwaters in northern Minnesota while ensuring continued timber harvest and recreational access is coming to fruition, The Conservation Fund and Northern Waters Land Trust announced May
Wisconsin Roundup: Better days coming for anglers; and why the delay in spring hearing results?
A check with northern Wisconsin bait shops suggest anglers had a good start to the 2025 fishing season, even if it was bit chilly the morning of Saturday, May 3.
It was 33 degrees
Bob Gwizdz: Pre-spawn bass fishing offers great fun and has not hurt the fishery in Michigan
Catch-and-keep bass season is still a ways off in Michigan, but the best fishing of the year may be right now.
“No doubt about it,” said Ben Nielsen, who hosted me on his bass
Outdoor Insights: What’s Minnesota doing right when it comes to wild turkeys?
Minnesota blew the lid off its previous record spring wild turkey harvest last year, and the first half of 2025 has kept pace with 2024.
My daughter, my dad, and I must’ve hit the midseason
Steve Pollick: H2Ohio in danger of being flushed down drain
For a week in early April, Ohio’s Sandusky River had hardly lived up to its designation as “state scenic,” boiling brown and angry and flooding bankside lowlands.
Four and a quarter inches of rain
Minnesota Letters to the Editor: A high school shooting coach takes issue with Ikes’ lead stance
Reader-submitted letters to the editor published in the May 9, 2025, edition of Minnesota Outdoor News.
Notes off a soiled cuff: A hunting story from Pennsylvania that tops them all
As you might imagine, I have heard a lot of hunting stories – this one tops them all:
Not long before dusk last Oct. 9, then 87-year-old Frank Jubara Sr. – a lifelong hunter
