Tips & Features
Pheasant madness in March can be had at Wisconsin game preserves
During a spell of freakishly mild March weather in Wisconsin, I joined friends to hunt pheasants on two game preserves: Cackle Creek in southern Dodge County, and On the Fly in Fond du Lac County.<br
Wild turkey hunting’s great debate: How much calling is too much calling?
How much to call and how loud to call is a question many turkey hunters face. It’s one of the most hotly-debated topics in the sport.
If you want to get a red-faced dose
The human factor afield: Lessons on friendship taken from this past hunting season
Last season, my hunting group had a hiccup.
Wait, let me stop right there. I hate euphemisms. It wasn’t a “hiccup.” It was a conflict. Like many Outdoor News readers, I am involved in
Read the water to catch Ohio’s hybrid stripers
Hybrid stripers in rivers are not oriented to cover as much as they use the fluid dynamics of flowing water to their advantage. They seek specific flow patterns to thrive in open water, the areas
Fish the ‘pocket’ water: Where overlooked runs hold big trout potential
Stream trout anglers are largely creatures of habit.
I say largely because there are exceptions to every rule. Still, the stream trout anglers I’ve fished with and learned from over the years adhere to
Great memories made fishing, railroading on Pennsylvania’s Pine Creek in the 1970s
Some of my favorite memories fishing in northern Pennsylvania and southern New York are along Pine Creek and the Genesee River in the 1970s using a now-defunct railroad to travel portions of these waters from
Minnesota elementary teacher and his students strengthen wood duck habitat
After the first few years, life caught up to Roeker and couldn’t commit the time to it as he was beginning his family and coaching. Five years ago, he brought back the duck house project
Kristin Ojaniemi: Snowmobiles help access big fish in backwoods lakes
What I enjoy the most about ice fishing is how accessible it is, or so I thought. You don’t really need a ton of gear – a sled, auger, a bucket to double as seat
Spring is a great time to target all Ohio’s Muskingum River has to offer
The Muskingum River watershed circulates the life blood of eastern Ohio, a massive 8,051 square miles, through all or part of 27 counties, the major cities of Akron, Mt. Vernon, Mansfield, Marietta, Newark, Canton, Zanesville,
