Tips & Features
Steve Griffin: Michigan trout anglers get a fresh start on Opening Day
Michigan trout season offers a real opening, going from no fishing to plenty of it. And, it just gets better and better.
We like fresh starts. The first day of school. Ash Wednesday or
Steve Pollick: A rookie’s first prairie burn is a learning experience that impresses
Prairie fires are serious business.
All you have to do to understand that statement is volunteer to tote and deploy a drip-torch – a heavy metal canister with a thick handle and curly-Q spout,
Taking kids turkey hunting can be a blast, but there’s ways to do it right
It wasn’t long ago when the best way to introduce youngsters to hunting youngsters to hunting involved a .22 rifle and some squirrels. Or maybe a single-shot shotgun and some cottontails. Today, most kids get
Mike Schoonveld: Are fish guts food, fertilizer, or garbage when a fish house isn’t available?
My first fishing trip of the season was successful. The cohos were in southern Lake Michigan, right on schedule, and my friend and I caught our limits plus a bonus brown trout.
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Reader Stories: Being able to start a fire critical if you get lost
Years ago, I had a book of outdoor stories by Ted Trueblood. He wrote for various outdoor magazines. In that book were two stories that stuck with me: The first: “How Not to Get Lost.”
Fly-fishing for crappies is a fun way to change things up this spring
With the enthusiasm of the Pennsylvania trout season opener coming to an end and the preparation to the upcoming spring gobbler season on the horizon, there is an underrated and overlooked opportunity during this midspring
Here’s how to work the remarkably weedless, deadly effective bladed jig
It was a blustery fall day with temperatures in the 40s and a slicing north wind that pushed water temperatures into the low 50s.
In my mind, it was perfect for a spinnerbait spun
Michigan’s Sturgeon River steelhead make for decades worth of opener memories
We’ve lost track over the years, but this spring is between our 35th and 40th year that our close-knit group of high school buddies will have spent the trout opener on the Sturgeon River near
Catch shad on middle stretch of the Delaware River
In the first milliseconds it’s like a wad of cotton has stuck to your line: heavy, limp, unyielding. This sensation is why anglers often confuse a shad strike with a possible snag.
But as
