Tips & Features
Best spots to find fish on early ice – video
Brian Brosdahl breaks down his go-to locations and areas that he likes to set up and search for fish during the early ice season. He also shares a few of his go-to presentations to put
Add some “wood specials” to your fly box this winter
I’d dropped by the Michigan home of famed anglers David Van Burgel and Kathy Scott for a minute. Those names should probably ring a bell with a lot of Michigan anglers.
For those to
For one deer hunter, this was a really poor stand location
There’s something special about sitting in a deer stand. It’s a front-row seat to nature’s wonders. At dawn, the wild world comes alive – songbirds sing, mallards hail, and pheasants crow.
Dusk, too, is
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
