Tips & Features
Find spots for ice fishing from your boat during fall – video
It’s never too early to plan and prepare, especially when it comes to locating and finding productive fishing spots.
November roosters are already well-educated; here’s how to outsmart them
Hardy and experienced late-fall roosters are scarce (hunted down), paranoid (hunted long) and elusive (hunted hard). October’s easy pickings of young, innocent cocks are gone.
Welcome to the cagiest, most nervous and neurotic game
Jeffrey Frischkorn: Lessons and life with my granddaughter
“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Even though Grace Rathe is one-third of my many years on Earth,
Steve Sarley: Avid fisherman goes dove hunting
I’ve stepped outside of my comfort zone the past couple issues of Illinois Outdoor News. I have been writing about hunting. I know that fishing is considered my milieu. (When was the last time you
Mike Raykovicz: Sixty years of bowhunting doesn’t eliminate all mistakes
I’ve been a bowhunter for more than 60 years, but I still make mistakes. Some of these like leaving my rain gear in the truck and then getting drenched in a downpour I thought would
Why were massive antlers easier to grow 15,000 years ago?
Many a deer hunter has had dreams, day and night, about being on stand when in the distance the antler tips from a huge buck come into view. The internal program shifts to “don’t look
Understanding phases of the muskie and cisco autumn nexus
Some predator-prey relationships are so important, and so central to an angler’s understanding of the species that they become part of the predator species’ identity in anglers’ minds. Walleyes and yellow perch. Brown trout and
Jeremiah Haas: A first deer is a magical time for a young hunter
Most of us remember the first time we pulled the trigger or released an arrow to harvest our first deer. The act might be the first of many similar experiences, but the emotions that accompany
A slow bite, then a nearly 8-pound smallie pulled from Minnesota’s Lake Mille Lacs
Wisconsin native Carson Knutson, 23, made a day trip to Lake Mille Lacs recently and ended the day with a nearly 8-pound smallmouth bass.
On Oct. 21, the Grantsburg resident took the day off
