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Jeremiah Haas: Maximize your turkey hunting experience this spring
A hunter’s experience during the hunt is ultimately more important than the filling of tags, especially during turkey season.

Dan Small: Stories of being lost in the woods
If you’ve never been lost, you probably have a great sense of direction, an internal compass, or a very short leash. Or like Daniel Boone, maybe you got turned around once or twice but never

Steve Carney: Enjoy your geese the jerky way
I love cooking game birds as much as I do walleyes and crappies, and over the years I’ve tried cooking Canada geese in a variety of ways, from crockpots to stir-fry, but I just hadn’t

Minnesota’s Pro Fishing Tip of the Week: April might bring normalcy to fishing
Nature seems to always even itself out.
February was warm, followed by a cold March. Now, early April is on track with air temperatures reaching the 40s and 50s. In southern and central Minnesota,

Lake Superior early-season coho salmon fishing – video
For coho salmon fishing in early spring, try this simple style of trolling that involves minimal gear and expertise.

Rainbow trout and steelhead: One species, but two very different angling experiences
They may look alike at certain times of the year, but the differences between rainbow trout and steelhead – despite being genetically the same species – couldn’t be more pronounced.
In fact, the two

Cost-share program, Part 4: Local options that are worth exploring
So far within this series, we’ve primarily explored cost-share options available to private landowners through the federal farm bill, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. While these can be great options, there are usually

Understand suitable habitat for spawning sauger
Warmer temperatures jumpstarted the 2024 sauger and walleye migration in Ohio, turning the engine over in early February. The catching got more serious in March. Anglers started finding the numbers – the tantalizing numbers they

Try a size 14 Adams; no better dry fly in Pennsylvania’s early trout season
Crowded fishing conditions in Pennsylvania are the norm during the first couple of weeks of trout season, especially on stocked waters. These crowded conditions can make it tough for fly-fishing. However, if a fly-fisherman wants