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Some Fish You Can Hook but Can't Keep Image credit: Flux.1 Most fishing regulations are about limits: size, season and bag counts. A smaller group o

The Money Behind Colorado's Amendment 83: Who's Paying to Put Hunting and Fishing in the State Constitution Two weeks out from the November midterm election, money is still pouring into the fight over whether Colorado should add a right to hunt and fish to its constitution. The ballot question is

The Marsh Wakes Up: California's 2026-27 Waterfowl Season Opens Saturday Before first light on Saturday, October 24, thousands of California hunters will be standing in cold water, listening for wings. California's 2026-27 waterfowl hunting season begins Saturday, Oct. 24, 2026, in most zones. The

The Dirty Secret of Southern Winter Bass: It's Decided in October Every winter, the same scene plays out on southern boat ramps. A guy backs a trailer down at dawn, the thermometer on his dash reads 38 degrees, and he has no idea whether the lake in front of him is about to fish like a gold mine o

A Fight Over Elk Tags Is Heading Toward the Roundhouse In New Mexico, the odds of drawing a bull elk tag on public land are long enough that hunters treat a successful draw as a minor windfall. Residents apply year after year, sometimes for a decade or more, and then a spreadsheet decides whether

Where the Pavement Ends and the Fishing Begins Most fly anglers learn the sport the same way: a parking lot, a trailhead, a well-trodden bank. The fish that fill magazine covers rarely live there. They live at the end of a washed-out forest road, on the far side of a ford, or in a lake that a mini

A Line Drawn Through the North Woods: Maine's Moose Compromise Maine's wildlife managers have settled on a plan that tries to give hunters and leaf-peepers each a piece of the same landscape. The state Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife will seek to expand moose hunting in September near

Michigan's Pheasant Release Program Returns for Year Seven — Nearly 7,300 Birds Headed to Southern Game Areas There are seasons that feel like obligations and seasons that feel like birthdays. For a certain breed of Michigan hunter — the kind who grew up watching a rooster burst from a frost-bitte

Faulkner University's McCraney and McKee Go Wire-to-Wire at the 2026 AFTCO Collegiate Bass Open on Lake Dardanelle College fishing doesn't get bigger than this. On the morning of October 10, 2026, more than 300 two-man boats launched off Lake Dardanelle in Russellville, Arkansas, armed with rods,

When a Small Fish Pulls Like a Big One Image credit: Flux.1 Anglers argue endlessly about which fish fights hardest, and the debate usually comes do