Tips & Features
There’s plenty to learn about your local deer over winter
Here in Minnesota, the last minutes of the 2025 deer season faded away on New Year’s Eve, and now most of us have moved on to other outdoor pursuits.
While deer hunting might be
Strokes, cadence, adjustments needed for jigging up walleyes
Jigging up walleyes on ice can be a simple affair.
Drop a bait to the bottom, lift it, watch your electronics for that tell-tale flicker on bottom to rise, then watch your rod tip
Tips for gathering live bait during Pennsylvania’s winter fishing season
We never know what type of weather winter is going to throw at us these days.
Some days it is cold and blustery, but others offer up sunshine and the hope of more favorable
Pro Fishing Tip of the Week: Targeting shallow water can yield fishy action
Don’t be afraid to go shallow for walleyes. Early ice can provide phenomenal fishing for walleyes as they continue to put their feed bag on before moving deep. Finding a spot to fish in an
Steve Carney: Do ATVs attract fish? And an FFS rant
The ice conditions so far this winter season have been excellent in Minnesota. A lack of snow cover, however, has really made for a crowded day of angling, because those with wheelhouses can essentially go
Ohio hunter arrows massive non-typical buck after a second encounter
Zac Prickett was fortunate enough to have two encounters this past fall with a massive buck he had been watching since last year.
The second such encounter paid off for Prickett on Nov. 1
Hunt mule deer in their bedroom; here’s where to look
Just 200 yards from a slight rise that I thought would put me just above the mule deer group I had spotted an hour before, I stopped on the edge of a wide creek bottom
Jeremy Smith: Perch action thriving again this winter on Minnesota’s Lake Mille Lacs
Perch are important species across the Ice Belt.
Not only are they one of the main forage species for a number of larger fish species, but their economic impact also is huge in comparison
An archery elk hunt that was worth the wait
Running into the depths of a box canyon, I figured I could cut off the screaming bull in a saddle between two ridges on the opposite side of it.
Nearing the top, I heard
