Tips & Features
Jeremiah Haas: Lessons from a failed turkey hunt
We all enjoy telling stories about our great successes in the woods or on the water.
Those stories live on for your entire lifetime, and some folks have been known to maybe embellish them
Colleen Foehrenbacher: DIY archery elk hunting demands your best, year-round
I hit my breaking point somewhere around 10,800 feet. I was five days into my first archery elk hunt, running on too little food, too little sleep, and far too much stubbornness, so I snapped.<br
Tom Bahti: Memories of hunting with a Moses stick
When you hunted Coues deer in southern Arizona with my late cousin, Kurt Bahti, you were gifted and used a “Moses stick.” Kurt fashioned them from the stem of a large cactus, and they were
May in Minnesota now means a first crack at bass; here’s how to catch them
A significant change in regulations means Minnesota bass anglers can legally target both largemouth and smallmouth bass year round, with a portion of the season being catch and release only. (Harvest season openings and closures
Casting in the concrete jungle: Kayak fishing grows in downtown Chicago
Kayak fishing has exploded across the country over the past decade, but few places offer a more striking backdrop than downtown Chicago.
Where skyscrapers tower above historic bridges and the river’s surface reflects a
Glenn Sapir: The makings of an opening day dream turkey hunt
As much as I try to go to sleep early in anticipation of the 3:45 a.m. alarm, my mind and body won’t surrender to slumber. The anticipation and earliness of this 10 p.m. bedtime is
Three muskie hotspots to target during the early season
As friends John and Mike and I headed for our first spot on opening day of the 2025 northern Wisconsin muskie season, I spotted a boat ahead of us scooting toward the same shallow, weedy
Mastering turkey hunting’s game of ‘let’s find each other’
You call and a gobble rings out. Quite a ways out, maybe 200 yards.
If you sit down right there and keep calling, there is a chance that tom will come all the way
Minnesota 9-year-old harvests a top three tom in state’s record book
Nine-year-old Luella Malone has made it into the Minnesota record books by harvesting the state’s No. 3 overall turkey. The bird scored 90.88, five points above fourth place and one point behind second.
Luella
