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From football to fishing, Ohio high school junior juggles a busy schedule
Fall means football in the Buckeye State and especially so in the small Washington County community of Beverly where Fort Frye High School is located.
Head football coach Eric Huck has built a winning

Make the most of bow season’s middle before the rut
It seems like bowhunting season just began, but we are already at midseason if you count the rut as the pinnacle of fall.
Whitetail bucks rapidly are shifting from early-season behavior to pre-rut activity,

Steve Carney: Minnesota fall turkey tag filled, and a great walleye bite on big minnows
Fall turkey hunting is a matter of chance.
Our Minnesota population is excellent, and turkeys remain the game bird of the future. I constantly have turkeys around my various archery deer hunting treestands. They’re

Pro Fishing Tip of the Week: Catching fall giants on Mississippi River waters in Minnesota
We guide exclusively on the Mississippi River and the tributaries. The Mississippi is my favorite water body, and choosing between smallmouth and muskies is especially tough in fall.

Ohio’s Outdoors Trailblazers: Fred Snyder is a jack of many trades on Lake Erie
Fred Snyder is no stranger to many of Lake Erie’s fishermen, Great Lakes Sea Grant agents and university researchers, Ohio State University Extension staff, former students, and fellow outdoor writers.
He grew up in

Ohio’s Lake Erie perch hungry for minnows; bite continues
After a period of relative inactivity among perch fishermen, reliable reports of some limit catches being caught again began circulating in the past couple of weeks.
These came from the Toledo Lighthouse and the

80 years of training dogs at Pennsylvania’s Rolfe Beagle Club
The Rolfe Beagle Club has changed over time to remain pertinent to its members.
In 1946, the Rolfe Sportsmen’s Beagle Club was started on Silver Creek Road. Soldiers had just come home from

The allure of big bucks: Where to find a jaw-dropper this firearms season
Pre-dawn on Saturday Nov. 7, 2026 roughly 400,000 Minnesota deer hunters will don blaze orange and head to woods and fields in hopes a whitetail will waltz into shooting range.
Although most deer hunters

Close to 100, a life-long Pennsylvania hunter looks back at life
Jack Lewis, of Bethlehem, Pa. was featured in Pennsylvania Outdoor News a few years ago when he famously shot a bear at age 96. As his 100th birthday approaches this fall, he has the experiences