How-To's

Post-hunting season health maintenance for your dog

How to keep your hunting dog from packing on the pounds during the off-season.

Finding bird dog training supplies in 2021

Preparing for a new gun-dog puppy requires access to and insight into top-flight equipment.

So you want to be an ice angler

If the trend of newcomers that we’ve seen in hunting and warm-weather fishing carries over to ice fishing, there’s sure to be some newbies wondering how to get into it. Welcome to the addiction.

Man on a mission in Pennsylvania’s deer woods

Mastering the art of a one-man deer drive.

Avoiding pheasant-hunting crowds on public land

Finding cagey late-season ringnecks during a year when license sales have blown up.

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Angling Buzz: Using aggressive baits for panfish [video]

Sometimes when you go big and aggressive you will really be able to trigger strikers and get them to react to the lure. Check out this Angling Buzz video to see how it's done.

Ice fishing tips: Stay safe with the proper gear as you tackle first ice

Stay safe and prevent an unexpected polar plunge by owning the right gear and frequently checking ice conditions!

It’s not magic: The recipe for being successful on ice or open water

Always start by surveying a given water body to understand wind, weeds, clarity, depths, fronts, structure, and fishing pressure.

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.