Recent Hunting And Fishing Articles

From Field to Fork: Why Hunting and Foraging Classes Are Having a Major Moment in America Leonore Enfield sat perfectly still in an elevated deer stand somewhere outside of Lawrence, Kansas, crossbow in hand, eyes scanning the tree line as the world quietly woke up around her. She had never hunted

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,