Recent Hunting And Fishing Articles

A Court Just Told North Carolina It Failed Its Fishermen — All of Them For decades, anglers working the sounds, inlets, and nearshore waters of North Carolina have watched something disappear. The flounder runs got thinner. The croaker counts dropped. The weakfish — once so abundant they were prac

The USDA Just Unlocked Thousands of Acres of Prime Duck Country in Arkansas — Here's What It Means for Hunters Arkansas has long held a hallowed place in the American duck hunting calendar. The flooded rice fields and bottomland timber of the Mississippi Alluvial Valley draw some of the heaviest c

Oregon's Hunting War: How a Radical Ballot Initiative Flipped the Script on an American Tradition For generations, Oregon hunters have packed their trucks before dawn, driven logging roads into the Cascades and the Blue Mountains, and come home with elk quarters and a freezer full of wild meat. Th

Lake Michigan Just Claimed the Top Spot as America's Best Fishing Lake — Here's Why It's Earned Every Bit of It There are fishing destinations, and then there is Lake Michigan. The two aren't even in the same conversation anymore. Lake Michigan has been named the best fishing lake in the United St

The Federal Government Just Dropped $52 Million to Put Hunters and Anglers on More Private Land For millions of American hunters and anglers, the single most stubborn obstacle between them and a day afield has nothing to do with skill, gear, or even game populations. It's a locked gate, a posted s

The Fortymile Caribou Federal Subsistence Hunt: Everything You Need to Know About the 2025 Season Every August, a stretch of subarctic Alaska comes alive with movement — thousands of caribou pushing across the tundra and spruce flats of the eastern interior, threading through river drainages and c

Pennsylvania's Hunting-Related Shooting Incidents Fall 31% in 2025: Inside One of the Safest Seasons on Record For anyone who has spent a November morning sitting in a Pennsylvania treestand, rifle across the lap and breath fogging in the cold air, the question of safety is never far from the back

The 8 Best Fly Fishing Destinations in the World Image credit: Flux.1 Fly fishing occupies a rare space among outdoor pursuits — it demands patience

When the River Gets Too Hot to Fish: The West's New Normal The drift boats are still on the water. The fly rods still arc through the morning air above the Yellowstone River near Livingston, Montana. But something has fundamentally changed about the summer fishing experience in the American West,

12 Preseason Secrets for Patterning Big Bucks Image credit: Flux.1 Patterning a mature buck before the season opens is one of the most rewarding — a