Tips & Features
Play the wind to get your gobbler this spring
Perusing the hunting section of a local farm store one spring day, I asked the associate where the scent free soap and sprays were. “Man, you know turkeys can’t smell you, don’t you?” he said.
Getting pushy with toms: Here’s when and how to call aggressively for turkeys
We’ve all heard aggressive turkey calling – on TV, sitting next to a hunting friend, or sometimes even in the woods just after fly-down as two hens dish out an array of insults toward one
Need a scope for your deer rifle? Hunters may find an advantage in BDC scopes
Should you own a bullet drop compensator (BDC) scope? Maybe, maybe not.
Dialed in, it can be a hunter’s dream, offering the potential for an accurate 200-yard shot with a rifle sighted in at
Mike Schoonveld: How you clean fish impacts the flavor of your fish
I remember the first fish I ever caught that someone cleaned for me and I got to eat it. My grandpa laid the tiny sunfish on the counter, used a spoon to scrape off the
Have these three baits tied on for spring smallies – video
Top three favorite lures for targeting big pre-spawn smallmouth bass.
Ask a fisheries biologist: Wisconsin’s native, non-native species
This week, DNR Fish Biologist Max Wolter discusses our native species, and those that are not native.
For Wisconsin anglers, brook trout, lake trout, smallmouth bass, and bluegills are some of our most popular
Fly-fishing gear works just fine for warmwater species like bass, too
Largemouth bass fishing is synonymous with many things in America’s freshwater fishing culture.
Tricked out specialty boats that scream second mortgage. Tournament anglers dressed like walking advertisements. Slick, glossy magazines devoted to the craft.
Steve Griffin: Sometimes fishing is just “catch ’em then eat ’em”
A writer friend posted a Facebook dispatch in which he said he’d harvested a steelhead for the first time in many years.
He said it without any apparent shame, and there’s every reason to
Trip to Lake Erie’s Eastern Basin proves worthwhile for jumbo perch
After seeing favorable reports for years about the spring yellow perch runs in Lake Erie’s Eastern Basin, I finally got the chance to go on April 16 to see for myself.
Accompanied by fellow
