Tips & Features
Pro Fishing Tip of the Week: Clear line helps when ice fishing clear lakes
The ice-fishing season is upon us in Minnesota, and right now the ice is very clear, so it’s important to always matched your line to the body of water you’re fishing.
Scrambling to fill the freezer? Here are three ways to get one more deer before year’s end
This is the down-to-the-wire time when a lot of hunters gaze into their chest freezers and realize that it wouldn’t be so bad to go into the new year with some more venison.
Steve Carney: Late-season pheasant hunters can be a lonely group
We received just enough snow recently to allow bird hunters to see pheasant tracks in the snow and determine if there are birds in an area.
Trip to Lower Peninsula’s Torch Lake provides unique opportunity to catch Atlantic salmon and perch
I’ve been doing a fair number of two-species fishing trips in recent years, where we fish for one target species for a while, then switch gears and try for something else.
In the spring,
Looking back on the evolution of ice fishing augers: “You really did that?”
As I wait impatiently for first ice here in northwest Iowa, I think back to the changes that have taken place over the past 65-plus years that I have ice fished. So many upgrades, but
Knocking on doors pays off in huge buck for Ohio bowhunter Zach Kemper
You have to knock on a lot of doors in order to get a place to hunt deer on private property in Ohio.
Zach Kemper, of Osgood in Darke County, took that to heart.
Late season pheasant hunting offers great rewards for those willing to work for it
My late grandfather’s farewell performance as a pheasant hunter – a seven-decade recurring role – took center stage on a particularly brutal December day in eastern South Dakota in the mid-1990s.
I thought about
Opportunity to mentor young hunter ends with a giant mountain buck in New York’s Adirondacks
The ice crackled like the noise of a small pebble being thrown through a glass window, and my breath floated into the frigid air as I looked over my scope. The deer would be in
For chasing ruffed grouse, there’s no better time than late December
Ruffed grouse hunters often focus most of their efforts on September and October hunts, but some of the most productive hunting occurs the last few weeks of December.
