It wasn’t until I had both jakes pieced out and in the cooler that I realized I hadn’t taken a picture of my daughters and I with their birds. In the excitement of a double during a beautiful spring morning in Minnesota, I’d neglected to get the image that might mean the most to me in the future...

Whether you call them slabs, specks, calico, or sac-a-lait, there is no doubt that crappie are the most pursued and popular panfish in North America. With a range that extends from Southern Canada all the way to the Texas Panhandle, crappie are found in almost every state in the US. Though not quite...

Sure, it’s May, and some states still have open turkey seasons. The thought of deer or elk season is just a faint glimmer on the horizon. While it might seem like you have an endless amount of time until the next big game seasons roll around, you’ll wake up one day in September only to realize that...

Any fisherman who isn’t still being carded for adult beverages can likely remember more than a few controversies with fishing technology. Way back, it was flashers, then GPS, then mapping, and then side imaging. Each of these advances had critics claim that it would ruin fishing or it was too...

Canadians don’t like anyone stealing their moose, but they especially don’t like it when the poachers are Americans. The Government of Ontario announced last week that it had fined 20 defendants a total of $178,400 and ordered them to pay $44,525 in surcharges for a variety of moose-hunting...

When we daydream of camping with our families, we often conjure up an image of our tent tucked into the shade of a couple of towering pine trees. There might be a lazy stream running nearby or possibly the shoreline of a placid lake where the waves softly lap upon the shoreline. We rarely envision...

Christopher “CJ” Alexander, whose name graced headlines in December after photos of him posing with an 18-point buck he harvested drew skepticism, has officially been indicted on 23 total charges, the Ohio Attorney General’s Office, on behalf of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, announced...

Long before the first rays from the October sunrise slanted their way through the forest, I knew there were turkeys roosted all around me. That was exciting, because in addition to a couple of deer tags, I had a fall turkey license in my wallet. It wasn’t too deep into legal shooting light before I...