Tips & Features
Minnesota Pro Fishing Tip of the Week: Soft landings don’t spook panfish
It’s no secret where crappies and bluegills are located during the spring, so I’m not going to waste my time mentioning it.
Heading into serious bear country? Attacks are rare, but you better be prepared
I’ve had many encounters with bears over the years. Some have been close-contact meetings where you connect with a bruin on a trail or a shoreline. Most have fortunately been more distant sightings while kayaking
Afternoons and evenings can be great times to target turkeys, especially late in the season
If you rewind the clock and look back at the history of the turkey season in Minnesota, you’ll see that a few decades ago, things were vastly different.
One of the changes, that’s a
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
