Tips & Features
Fall means fantastic fishing on Illinois waters of the Mississippi River
While Oct. 1 tends to bring a lot of excitement for deer hunters, it is usually about the time the Mississippi River temperatures reach the low 60s or high 50s in Illinois. While you may
Hunting and fishing licenses: The backbone of New York’s fish and wildlife management
When I hung up the phone after making my annual license purchases, I felt very pleased. First of all, I was legal for the coming year, a status I have enjoyed since I was 16.
An archery opening-day giant out of southeastern Minnesota
It’s one thing to get a trail cam pic or two of a mature buck, and quite another to have the buck’s sheds, assemble a library of photos of the deer, and then have that
Brady Oberg Legacy Foundation gets vets on the water
I recently had the pleasure of quarterbacking a fishing event for 10 fellow veterans near Battle Lake, Minn. I managed to get a group of fishing buddies together to assist, and my guiding group consisted
Minnesota’s Pro Tip of the Week: Fall perch bite leads to big size and numbers
The fall perch bite will be full swing in a week or so to a degree that it can rival the famous Devils Lake winter perch bite. The size and numbers of perch are high
Early-season whitetails: Here are four food sources to target in late September, early October
The rut gets all the attention, but if I know where a big buck is living, I’d rather hunt him in late September or early October than any other time of season.
In September
The fall muskie frenzy: Here’s how to catch them on some of Iowa’s top waters
They once were called the “fish of 10,000 casts”…the muskellunge. As fishing techniques have advanced and improved, so have the catch rates to the point that on a given day, especially during the fall, multiple
Woodie Wisdom: Get to know this handsome, popular duck
The waterfowling industry is chock-full of imagery consisting of bearded, face-painted dudes lugging limits of greenheads out of swamps. Mallards get a lot of attention, and rightfully so. Who doesn’t love talking in a flock
Belly up to the famed Niagara Bar in New York for big brown trout
Arthur O’Mara of Moravia, N.Y., was fishing the Niagara Bar for king salmon the first weekend of the Lake Ontario Counties Trout and Salmon Derby in August with his buddy, Jeff Smith, of Pennsylvania. As
