Tips & Features
These mini tools will have your mini food plots pulling in deer
Tom Hart, a good buddy, former cop, and current Outdoor News advertising salesman has harvested a lot of big bucks from small urban spots to larger out-of-state leases. The thing is, he doesn’t claim to
Black ice, big trout (and walleyes, too)
Eager footsteps grounded in common-sense trepidation guide our way out onto the first few inches of jet-black “glass.”
Every hit of the spud bar resonates through our eardrums. Flashes of light from the headlamp catch
January fishing in Michigan means mixed ice opportunities on Mullett, Burt, and Black
In the winter of 2023-2024, I didn’t go ice fishing once. I might have been able to sneak out once or twice if it’d been a huge priority, but I didn’t.
Given the poor
Go shallow for early-ice panfish in New York
Go shallow in the early ice season: go deeper in the shank of winter: go shallow again as the ice season melts away. Many members of the “Frozen Chozen” will attest there is truth to
Weasels provide a good opportunity to get started in trapping
My first encounter with a weasel was fox trapping as a teenager in the 1970s. I caught one in a No. 1½ coil-spring trap at a dirt-hole set for fox. I admit I set my
John Tertuliani: Memories of long-ago come flooding back each deer opener
I was 13 when an opportunity for a rifle hunt came together in north-central Pennsylvania, the region where my grandfather immigrated to and met the woman who would become my grandmother. The hunt started a
Try this ‘glowing’ strategy to catch more crappies through the ice
My knees were starting to bang together. I wish I could’ve pulled the ice hole closer to the little fire I’d constructed but that was physically impossible.
The sun was deep into the high
How to fillet a bluegill, and fast – video
Here’s the quickest way to clean a bluegill or sunfish boneless and skinless with a conventional knife.
December roosters are escape artists; here’s how to outsmart them
By this time of the season, the dumb roosters are dead. Some soaked up a load of 6s, some got picked off by avian predators, and some probably met their demise in more bland but
