Tips & Features
A little boat motor maintenance in March will have you ready for open water
In April of 1982, I became a creel clerk for the Ohio Division of Wildlife. It was a real job after college that launched a career outdoors. Assigned a boat with a cast-off outboard from
Jack Ammerman: March is the time for coyote hunters to whimper, not scream
Michigan’s changes to its coyote hunting and trapping season just arrived earlier this month.
After being pressured to close the season to hunters and trappers by those who wanted to see the predators have
Shed hunting season comes with some added bonuses
If this time of year has you yearning for spring so you can get outdoors as the first fish of open water angling season begin to bite, there is no reason to sit around and
Tom Venesky: Shed season is another chance to claim a ‘trophy’
The adrenaline rush with finding a nice shed is almost equal to the feeling of actually harvesting a trophy buck. Sometimes, it’s like looking for a needle in a haystack, but shed antler hunting is
Ask a Fisheries Biologist: How often are Wisconsin anglers limiting out on panfish?
Some anglers worry that other anglers are taking a full limit or more of panfish. How common is it for a panfish angler to keep a limit or more than the limit?
Kristin Ojaniemi: Discovering splake and whitefish on Lake Superior’s Munising Bay
It’s March in the Upper Peninsula – well over halfway through our winter season. Lake ice remains thick here, and we’ve had over two months of good ice fishing on inland lakes this season.
Michigan’s ‘Omer Suckerfest’ is time for anglers to unite – and for white suckers to run
The man next to me, tending to a barrel smoker that was billowing smoke, handed me a piece of sucker on the end of a plastic fork – before I had even introduced myself.
Jeremy Smith: Spring is a special time on the river for walleye anglers
After another winter, anglers are chomping at the bit to fish open water again. With the cold we’ve had this season, ice is still covering some lakes across the Midwest, and may hold on for
Mike Schoonveld: Vacuum-sealed products require special thawing
People are taught dozens of common-sense rules as they travel down the road of life. One of them is to don’t eat any food from a metal can that shows signs of swelling. Why? Because
