Tips & Features
Cold water, hot bite: Early-season walleye tactics and techniques
By nature, walleyes become super aggressive shortly after the rigors of spawning season. Their hard work is over, and they start looking to recover, which means heavy feeding.
From an angler’s standpoint, that means
A casual way to search for shed antlers
I’ve found a few whitetail antler sheds over the years, but I wouldn’t call myself a shed hunter. Usually, when it happens, I blunder into one while trolling for spring gobblers, the find sometimes a
Breaking down jighead color for walleyes – video
When it comes to choosing a color for walleyes, sometimes it really doesn’t seem to matter at all. But other times, getting that color dialed in can be a true game-changer.
The ultimate trout adventure: Backwoods brookies
I got into backwoods trout fishing after reading an article in a national outdoors magazine about a couple of state biologists who hiked into a remote pond in what is now the Siamese Ponds Wilderness
Reader Story: Memories of smelt hunting in Wisconsin’s Frog Bay
Every April it was the same thing. “You should come on up with us smelt hunting,” the guys would say. “It’s a good time.”
“I’ll think about,” I said those first couple of years
Spinner fishing western New York trout streams
There are many trout fishing methods – bait, flies, small minnow crankbaits, and hair or plastic jigs. Spinning certainly isn’t the end-all, but if you know how to fish them, they’re an extremely productive means
Ditch the blind when bowhunting turkeys
Four toms had put on an incredible show not far from this place the previous morning. I called two of them to within 25 yards, but never got the shot I wanted with my bow.<br
‘Pawsitively’ connected: The shared love of dogs brings hunters together
The retriever club I belong to is neck-deep in planning its 35th anniversary “Spring Hunt Test.” Even though I still haven’t been able to bring myself to take on a new pup since the loss
Plenty of fish and angling company on the Missouri River in South Dakota
I think there are a few thousand anglers in South Dakota who have serious cases of cabin fever.
I got to a Missouri River boat ramp at Chamberlain around 7:15 a.m. on Monday, April
