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Understand the forage to become a better bass angler
If you’re like most bass anglers, you go to the lake, tie on favorite baits and head to spots where you’ve caught them before. If that doesn’t get you many bites, you switch baits and

Breaking down the many black bass subspecies beyond largemouths and smallmouths
Ask most Outdoor News followers to name the different species of black bass and, most likely, you’ll hear largemouth and smallmouth.
Rightly so. Those are the primary species of bass we have in northern

Focus on these important details to trigger a tom
According to my turkey-hunting mentor, Ray Eye, skilled hunters in the Missouri Ozarks have forever wished there was no such thing as a spring season. Why? Because they think it’s not fair to hunt gobblers

Steve Carney: With spring fishing, timing is everything
My second fishing trip to the Minnesota/South Dakota border waters of Lake Traverse and Big Stone Lake was much better than my first trip. Water temperatures had risen into the low 50s, and the bite

Pro Tip of the Week: Scouting is key for getting a turkey
Turkey hunting early in the season can be the best way to find and target unpressured birds that are not yet shy to calling and skittish to decoys. Regardless of when you plan to hunt

Uninterested hen leads gobbler to a waiting hunter
From nearly a half-mile away, I spotted two black dots on a bend in the farm road. I blinked and they were still there, so I raised my binocular and confirmed the two “dots” were

Here’s what to know about the status of Minnesota’s ‘Great Eight’ walleye lakes ahead of opener
Assuming there it a normal ice-out year, Jensen suspects that anglers can get some catch-and-release action on the northern sand areas of the lake. Even though he isn’t sure why they group up in that

A case for fishing the Minnesota River — where ‘you never know what you may hook into’
Along its 332-mile journey beginning in Big Stone Lake at the Minnesota-South Dakota border, the Minnesota River bends and snakes its way through farms, forests, fields, and swamps until it meets the Mississippi River south

Dean Bortz: What can go wrong shall go wrong in the turkey woods
If you’ve already read this story from Outdoor News, then you know that the 2025 turkey season is off to a roaring start in Wisconsin. There’s no way of knowing how things will play out