How-To's

Heat of summer angling secret: early risers

How to avoid the summer fishing doldrums (and the recreational boat traffic).

Fishing tip: Beat the heat and troll for hungry moonlight walleyes

Record-breaking heat and bugs hindering your urge to wet a line this holiday weekend? Try trolling under a full moon for the region’s most popular freshwater gamefish

Better fishing this spring: timing that hookset

Ever wonder why swinging and missing is so common in all types of fishing?

How 'knot' to let the big one get away

Learning to tie effective knots is not hard to do and can make the difference between bringing home a bragging-size fish or just talking about it.

Spring flipping and other vegetation tactics for pocket crappies

Where there’s one slab, there’s more, so tune up your skills and work the cover correctly.

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Outdoor News video: Grow your own shiitake mushrooms

In this Outdoor News video, Kathy Yerich, author of "Mushrooms of the Upper Midwest," demonstrates – with help from Mike Hehner – the do-it-yourself process to creating shiitake mushroom logs.

Graduating from fishing elementary school

Choosing the right lure option for a kid’s first casting experience.

Spring fishing tip: Have some fun catching carp and suckers on a local river or stream

Beat “stay-in-place”-induced cabin fever by targeting rough fish in a hard-running river near you.

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Great spring project for kids: Outdoor News Wood Duck Challenge [video]

Since 1989, the Wood Duck Challenge has been an Outdoor News institution that encourages youth under the age of 18 to construct and install a wood duck nesting box. For access to complete plans and instructions, check out this video.

Ice fishing tip: Think shallow for late season panfish

Locate standing weeds in shallow water in late winter, and hungry panfish will be hanging out nearby.

Ice fishing tip: Using spoons to catch more late-season panfish

Small spoons tipped with plastics, worms, or minnow heads and tails will attract more perch, crappies, and sunfish thus boosting your odds of catching more fish.

Ice fishing tip: Stuck in one spot? Call the fish to you!

Not marking fish despite working a prime location? Try using flashy spoons or rattle baits to entice more fish into your icy zone.

Key tool in winter success: vertical jigging spoons

Know which jigging to employ when and you’ll reel in more walleyes and panfish this hard-water season.

Outdoor News Video: ice fishing deep walleyes

Fishing guide Tony Roach shares with Outdoor News one of his best techniques for walleye fishing in cold, deep waters.

Not catching fish? Here’s the worst excuse ever

Build the proper presentation and fish will come, because they’re always biting somewhere.

Outdoor News video: Ice fishing, catch and release, and the tools to get it done

Ice anglers, do you prefer to release the fish you catch? Here are a few of the proper tools to aid successful catch-and-release on the hard water.

Outdoor News video: ice fishing with set lines

There are many different ways to catch fish when going out ice fishing. Outdoor News' Jason Revermann shares his favorite technique ice fishing while using set lines rather than other ways when you're jumping from hole to hole.

Two simple tips for ice-fishing success [video]

Check out this Angling Buzz video for a few rock-solid tips for catching more (and bigger?) fish through the ice.

A deep dive into fishing perch on ice

Check out this in-depth, deep-dive look into targeting perch with Tony Roach and Cody Roswick, who talk perch tips and strategies in both Minnesota and the Dakota in this Angling Buzz video.