In 2025, biologists stocked more than 340,000 fingerling walleyes in the collection of lakes that make up the Fox Chain. That, of course, includes Pistakee, which is the largest body of water on the Chain
Illinois cuffs and collars are field reports from Conservation Police Officers. These reports are from the Feb. 6, 2026 edition of Outdoor News.
An Illinois firefighter and paramedic who also happens to be an avid muskie angler has been getting attention in the winter of 2026 for a fish he caught in the summer of 2025.
The
The Wild Rose Fish Hatchery has been restoring and enhancing Wisconsin fisheries for more than a century.
Trout, salmon, sturgeon, and walleyes are all raised at the Wild Rose Fish Hatchery before being stocked
This reader went to his local Department of Motor Vehicles to update his driver’s license with the intent of adding an icon showing proof he has a lifetime hunting license.
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Police Officers late in 2025 issued several tickets for the illegal harvest and selling of striped bass.
According to a DEC report, in Nov. 2025, ECOs
Although it’s not even close to being one of the state’s biggest counties, Washington County in eastern New York stretches 60 miles, top to bottom, and is 20 miles wide. And even though the northern
The largest change has been the introduction of northern pike that were first detected in Bear Lake in 1997 and likely traveled through Bear Creek and the Amnicon River to invade Amnicon Lake. They were
Crappies, bluegills, walleyes, trout, and even northern pike wind up on many dinner tables, but there is an abundant group of fish that rarely gets eaten – suckers.
For our purposes here, ‘suckers’ will
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