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Spring turkeys: Time to battle with a worthy adversary, no matter how dumb they seem sometimes
How can something so seemingly crafty sometimes be so dumb?
That’s the charming paradox of the wild turkey: as dumb as the proverbial box of rocks and so thick we call a foolish, inept,

With snow gone, it’s time to spring into deer scouting
A few years ago, during spring, I was tramping through some bottomland with my yellow Lab, Daisy.
As we walked a piece of high ground surrounded by a bottomland bog, Daisy, as a good

A trout pilgrimage to Ernest Hemingway’s “Big Two-Hearted River” (Part 1)
When I was a young newspaper reporter in Chicago with short vacations and little money, I used to drive to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to fish the Big Two-Hearted River, made famous by Ernest

Bob Gwizdz: The best time to go fishing is whenever you can
We were fishing for Atlantic salmon, one of Jim Chamberlin’s favorite fish, on Michigan’s Torch Lake, one of his favorite fishing holes.
Atlantics, Chamberlin says, are “challenging, good fighting fish, extremely good to eat

White bass run in Ohio may come a bit early this year
While the white bass migration in Ohio peaks around mid-May, catchable numbers often linger to the end of the month. The timing and duration of the spawn is governed by the weather. No guarantee predicting

Don’t miss these April fishing opportunities in Michigan
April has anglers smiling. Winter is finally over, at least mostly… though a mid-April snowstorm is never out of the question.
On the other hand, towards the end of the month, it can be

Minnesota’s Pro Tip of the Week: Time to prepare for springtime walleye fishing
Thinking outside the box can be difficult moving into a new open-water fishing season. Our 2023-24 winter was a nonevent that we hadn’t previously experienced. With warm weather and little snow, lakes and rivers likely

Steve Carney just says no to forward-facing sonar
I just viewed a short snippet on forward-facing sonar provided by legendary angler Hank Parker, who spoke about this relatively new phenomenon.
In a nutshell, he said that he’s not a fan of the

Five early-spring fishing tips – video
Don’t get caught out in the cold this spring.