Tips & Features
10 essential tip-up tips – video
Simple adjustments and habits that make tip-up fishing easier, cleaner, and far more productive – whether you’re chasing walleyes, pike, or panfish.
Pennsylvania Reader Stories: You only get one dog like Jake in a lifetime
Jake was born April 10, 2012. We had the number-one pick for a yellow male lab, and we excitedly picked him up eight weeks later, in early June.
He had a good pedigree with
Crow hunting is the supreme winter challenge
If you are looking to take on a winter hunting challenge unlike any other, then may I suggest you go crow hunting. While these birds might not be as valued as other game species, they
Ohio’s Great Miami River offers a smorgasbord for anglers
The headwater of the Great Miami River feeds Indian Lake in west central Ohio before heading 170 miles south to the Ohio River, entering west of Cincinnati. Draining a large wedge of the region as
Unique to north country, snowshoe hares provide fast winter hunting action in Minnesota
Over many years of chasing snowshoe hares, my hunting comrades and I have fine-tuned a method of successfully hunting these secretive forest animals with archery tackle.
Snowshoe hares travel ghostlike through the frigid forest;
Meet Jim Ploen: A bowhunting and target archery icon still shooting strong at 98
Last August, I attended a 3-D traditional archery shoot at Cedar River Archers just outside of Austin, Minn.
Glancing at the sign-in sheet, I recognized names of archers who’d arrived before me, and one
What are you throwing in 2026? Top anglers share their baits, setups for the new year
My first fishing article for the new year traditionally revolves around places I would like to fish once lures start splashing instead of ricocheting.
This year, instead of planning where to go, I am
Steve Piatt: Finally, carrying a .30-30
I’ve used a lot of different rifles during my 50-plus years of deer hunting. Early on in my hunting life that was because the only firearm I owned was a Harrington & Richardson Topper Junior
Examining the finer details of tip-up fishing
Tip-ups are a low-tech – but effective – tool for catching pike and walleyes under the ice. What follows are the finer points of these simple setups.
For starters, I like to use modern
