Tips & Features
Jeremiah Haas: What Quad Cities anglers need to know about lake sturgeon
Lake sturgeon are a fish species that create stories of a lifetime for many anglers. To pursue them, historically, you had to either go to Lake Winnebago in Wisconsin, St. Croix River, or to the
Dan Ladd: Hoping for a successful late turkey season
Anyone who has ever played a sport of any kind, whether it was baseball or basketball in high school, or even bowling, billiards or golf (or more likely today, pickellball) knows what a slump is.<br
Glenn Sapir: A “sunny” bass fishing opener in New York
I’d had half-hour sessions in the pond bordering the backyard of our Florida rental home during February and March, and I’d enjoyed great smallmouth fishing with Capt. Frank Campbell on the Niagara River in May.
Dean Bortz: It was a turkey hunt like never seen before…
John Madden could have made the call on a first-season gobbler finally killed by yours truly in Zone 7’s Vilas County.
“And there goes Bortz yet again, rumblin’, bumblin’, and stumblin’ through the woods.
Steve Carney: Fine tuning your late-spring minnow choices
So far the 2026 open-water fishing season in Minnesota has been a minnow affair.
Minnows right now are producing much better than leeches or crawlers, and this trend usually continues well into June. Most
Pro Fishing Tip of the Week: Low river provides a unique walleye challenge
We are dealing with yet another low-water spring to start our season in Minnesota.
This low water means walleyes are in a different-than-normal pattern that spreads them throughout the fishery and almost eliminates traditional
Mom, daughters ‘triple-up’ on first birds during Wisconsin hunt
Going three-for-three is a pretty good average for turkey hunters, and three young ladies recorded that perfect score during a recent learn-to-hunt (LTH) outing.
Mother Libby Stark, 38, and sisters Ava Stark, 12, and
Patrick Durkin: No room for guilt if scoring on rare gobbler double
If I didn’t view turkeys as nature’s most fickle, frustrating and fascinating bird, I might have felt guilty for shooting a gobbler May 8 as it stood confused while its buddy flapped its last among
The best deer hunting rifles for less than $700
When it comes to deer hunting rifles, many hunters fall into one of two categories: 1. Give me the best and hang the cost. And 2. The cheaper the better.
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