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Steve Carney: Proper care for your fish fillets is important during raging summer heat
Catching shallow walleyes, and keeping them fresh during a ragingly hot summer

Pro Fishing Tip of the Week: Minnesota’s mid-summer smallmouth report
Smallmouth bass fishing is heating up across the Otter Tail area as fish settle into their summer patterns. Rock piles, boulder fields, and main-lake points in 10 to 25 feet of water are producing some

Steve Pollick: Trail cam images give the itch of archery hunt
The trail cams have been sending a loud and clear message lately on Pollick Clan hunting grounds: Get ready!

Handline fishing still in practice today for minimalist anglers
Adam Nelson likes to say that he was “born in the national parks.”
His father served as a park ranger, outside national parks in California and Wyoming and a national recreation area in Pennsylvania.<br

Greg Seubert: The quiet magic of the Wisconsin lake I hate to tell you about
As far as Northwoods fishing destinations go, a small lake in Wisconsin’s Taylor County probably isn’t on anyone’s list.
Except mine, and that’s the way I want it to stay. On paper, the 23-acre

New York Reader Stories: Lessons of patience, perseverance, and faith from the turkey woods
My 2026 turkey season started on a sad note with a longbeard coming my brother’s and my way only to hear five rapid-fire shots in the next field and the bird eluding us. There was

Megan Plete: Good friends, good water on Massachusetts’ Deerfield River
Every spring, the Northeast chapter of the American Daughters of Conservation gathers for a day spent fly-fishing on Massachusetts’ Deerfield River.
Some arrive with years of experience behind a fly rod, while others are making

Anglers rediscover vintage fishing gear
Taking a deep breath, I eyed the swirling river my grandfather introduced me to nearly 60 years ago. Shiners that I had trapped as he once taught me splashed in a bucket on shore. A

Murphy’s Law for sportsmen (or if you’re anything like me)
If you’re anything like me, it never fails that your perfect cast of the topwater plug to that big largemouth bass lurking just under the lily pad is smacked instead by a 6-inch pickerel.