Tips & Features
Steve Carney: Early ice in Minnesota is looking good, but be careful
We are starting the 2024-25 ice-fishing season off well in Minnesota, with ice conditions much better than the previous couple of years. Luckily, the snow has held off, allowing the ice to form properly.
Pro Tip of the Week: Scouting for northern pike
Tip-up fishing for northern pike can be exciting in itself, and there also can be a chance for a bonus walleye at times.
The Buzzard Man from Ohio: 12,000 groundhogs and counting
They affectionately call him “The Buzzard Man” for reasons that will become apparent after reading this story.
David Edwards just passed a personal milestone – 12,000 groundhogs killed by this sharpshooting marksman who is
Tim Spielman: In the dark, windy woods, the death of a buck is a tough experience to witness
On Oct. 9, my black Lab was the first to make the discovery. Going about her morning-relief rituals, she began an incessant barking – not the usual hey-neighborhood, I’m-up, sporadic barks.
At the far
Don’t go ice fishing for crappies without this knowledge – video
Common applications for each lure style and when, where, and how to use these different types of crappie lures as tools to get you on the fish.
Minnesota reader stories: The ‘perfect double’ makes for a goose hunt to remember
It had been three weeks since the start of Minnesota’s regular duck-season opener, and it was another day of blue skies, no wind, and nearly 80 degrees. Not exactly ducky weather.
We were at
New York Reader Stories: Too cold for geese to fly? Time to deer hunt
It was so cold, the geese would not fly.
My hunting partner, Steve, and I had been in our ground blinds since first light, waiting for the resident Canada geese to leave the pond
When is fur at its prime? Here’s a guide for Illinois, other Midwestern states
I started the trapping season on Nov. 10 in a deer camp in western Illinois. I start every season there because I have to get out before the start of the deer gun season. I
There’s beauty in December flushes of ruffed grouse
There’s much focus on October ruffed grouse hunting, which makes sense. The season is just kicking off, the woods are pleasant, and the birds are scattered across the cover in a fairly even distribution. That’s
