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Month of March means trophy walleyes after ice out on Michigan rivers
Savvy Michigan anglers get a head start on the 2026 open water season for walleyes by targeting major rivers that walleyes run sometime in March.
Rotund walleyes, fat as pigs, stage well before the

A little redemption in the Ohio whitetail woods for this nonresident
As someone who lives outside Ohio, I consider myself lucky to have had the opportunity to hunt on private land in the Buckeye State for the past decade.
My hunting experiences have taken me

Burbot through the ice are late winter’s overlooked opportunity
Pity the poor burbot. Too long scorned and dismissed, unlovely and unloved. At best an occasional nuisance while pursuing “real” fish like the mighty walleye. At worst, lumped in with carp and other “rough fish”

Jeffrey Frischkorn: This firearm made a recent hog hunt more special
The boar was not so big, though hardly a (formerly) squealing little piglet. Not by Florida wild hog hunting standards.
At maybe 100 pounds, the boar thus fell under the unofficial heading of being

Five tips to put you on more shed deer antlers
It’s been said before: Shed hunting is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Think about it: Any given buck can literally travel for miles from when deer begin dropping antlers in December

Tyler Frantz: Some of the most frigid hunts are memories frozen in time
Drafting this column in early February, there is no way of accurately predicting the weather when this issue of Pennsylvania Outdoor News goes to press, but as I gaze out the window of my home

Dialing in on the saugeye bite in Ohio waters
Questionable behavior these hybrids have, part chameleon, part escape artist. An unlikely source of genes made them this way. A river sauger and a lake walleye, who would of have thought it led to such

Cold water, big fish: Michigan trip after ice out results in that elusive 10-pound walleye
A friend had just spent a tough day on the ice searching for walleyes. Five hours of effort had resulted in only one fish. He was ready for a change in plans. I told him

Don’t make the mistakes most deer hunters make during winter
Most whitetail hunters put away their hunting gear once the season ends, and they don’t really think about deer again until the velvet bucks start showing up in mid-summer. The ones who don’t, often spend