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Tactics for the giant northern pike of Lake Superior
Find shallow bays with loads of vegetation on Gitche Gumee, and you’ll locate some of the largest northern pike in the Lower 48.
Want to have some fun? Focus on northern Wisconsin smallmouths and leave the walleyes for another day
Big smallmouths are no longer limited to the known trophy waters of Green Bay or Chequamegon Bay.
The ‘gig’ is up: frog-gigging in Ohio
Ohio DNR offers workshop on pursuit of frogs.
Conservation groups send letter to Capitol demanding R-E-S-P-E-C-T for hunting, fishing, and conservation funding
Signers include DU and PF: “Minnesotans want clean water and a thriving outdoors, and they have voted to pay for it.”
A bountiful spring season filled with feathers and fungus
With a turkey in the freezer and morel mushrooms in the bag, the author has enjoyed some outstanding spring opportunities in Michigan’s great outdoors.
Lyme disease hits Pennsylvania blogger
Black-legged deer ticks are just terrible this spring in central Pennsylvania and now this outdoor enthusiast is paying the Lyme disease price.
Fishing line selection isn’t as simple as the old days
Today, fishermen have a choice of many high-quality braided or fluorocarbon fishing lines that are stronger, more durable and don’t abrade as easily as mono.
Sausage-making time at Minnesota state Capitol
Legislative action in St. Paul goes dark around fishing opener, but there’s plenty of political theater remaining for sportsmen this session.
Anti-bobcat trapping bill is amended, groups remain opposed
The proposal that would ban bobcat trapping and also the sale of bobcat pelts was amended on Friday to exclude southern Illinois and a handful of western counties from the ban, but trapper and sportsmen
