Metro Area Fishing Report – May 6, 2024 – video
Matt Johnson
May 6, 2024
And a look at the Wisconsin and Minnesota fishing openers.
Wisconsin
Gene Kroupa: A heavy Iowa gobbler falls for some time-tested tactics
Gene Kroupa
May 3, 2024
High winds, heavy rainfall, and a few tornadoes peppered the spring turkey woods and fields the day before Iowa’s third season opener.
Better yet, hens were already on the nest, according to my landowner
WI Daily Update: Focus on the wing dams for walleyes on the Mississippi River right now
Site Staff
May 3, 2024
Gary Roach says if you are fishing the Mississippi River for walleyes right now, you want to focus on the wing dams. Here’s why.
The latest strategies for controlling (or at least surviving) biting insects afield
Tim Lesmeister
May 3, 2024
It was last July and I was hiking on Stockton Island (Apostle Islands National Lakeshore) with my wife and Joan, a friend of ours. After criss-crossing through the forest on the well-worn trails, we returned
U.S. House votes to remove wolves from endangered list in 48 states
Dean Bortz
May 2, 2024
The U.S. House voted Tuesday to end federal protection for gray wolves, approving a bill that would remove them from the endangered species list across the lower 48 states.
A handful of Democrats joined
Tom Bahti: Examining high deer numbers on a farm in Wisconsin’s Waupaca County
Tom Bahti
May 2, 2024
Since the late 1970s I’ve been extremely fortunate to have deer hunting access to the Hill farm in northeast Waupaca County. The farm was owned by Allie and Lulabelle Hill. Lulabelle was a childhood friend
WI Daily Update: Two things that will hurt your chances when fishing shallow-water crappies
Site Staff
May 2, 2024
The crappies are flying into the shallow water right now. Here are two things that can hurt you as you fish crappies in these conditions.
In Wisconsin, voters narrowly favor ban on latest fishing technology
Tim Spielman
May 1, 2024
While anglers, fishing groups, and the DNR here in Minnesota continue to debate and examine the virtues and potentially less-than-favorable outcomes of using forward-facing sonar in angling, public hearings held in neighboring Wisconsin in early
Christine Thomas: Luck is a lady in the turkey woods
Christine Thomas
May 1, 2024
I started the 2024 turkey season by taking a youth hunter out on the Saturday morning of the youth season. He had a truncated opportunity for hunting due to the first baseball practice of his
