Recent Hunting And Fishing Articles

San Carlos Lake Is Closed — And Every Single Fish Inside It Is Dead One of eastern Arizona's most storied fishing destinations is now a graveyard. San Carlos Lake, a sprawling reservoir carved out of the high desert on San Carlos Apache tribal land, has been shut down indefinitely after a confluen

Maine's Moose Hunt Is About to Change — and Not Everyone in the North Woods Is Happy About It Deep in the north woods of Maine, where logging roads dead-end into bog-lined meadows and bull moose push through alder thickets at first light, a regulatory debate is unfolding that has hunters, outfitte

5 Michigan Hotspots Reeling In Walleye, Bluegill, Trout Image credit: Flux.1 Michigan is one of the most underrated freshwater fishing destinations

Every summer, tens of millions of Americans grab their gear and head for the water — and for a significant chunk of that fishing-obsessed population, the season is already defined by a shifting patchwork of regulations that dictate not just how many fish they can keep, but when they can even cast a

Michigan's 2026 Eat Safe Fish Guides: What Every Angler Needs to Know Before Their Next Meal Every spring, Michigan anglers pull walleye out of the Detroit River, haul in chinook salmon from Lake Michigan tributaries, and fry up bass caught on a quiet Sunday morning. It's one of the great pleasure

America's Best Retirement Destinations If You Want to Fish Year-Round Image credit: Flux.1 For a certain kind of man, retirement isn't about slowing

The National Park Foundation Just Made Its Biggest Bet Ever on Getting Kids to Fish On June 9, 2026, the National Park Foundation dropped a number that should turn heads in every corner of the outdoor recreation world: $1.2 million in grants, spread across 57 national parks, park partners, and com

The Biggest Opening in Federal Hunting and Fishing History Is Here — And It Changes Everything For decades, American hunters and anglers have watched access to federal public lands shrink incrementally — not through dramatic legislative actions, but through quiet regulatory accumulation, budget-dr

Stop Waiting for Cold Fronts to Kill Your Buck Every deer hunter you know does the same thing. They obsessively watch the weather app, circle cold front days on the calendar, and take time off work when the mercury finally drops. Cold fronts get all the glory, and honestly, they deserve some of it

Massachusetts Moves to Modernize Hunting Laws — and the Debate Is Anything But Quiet For decades, a hunter in Massachusetts has been legally barred from heading into the woods on a Sunday. Not because of lack of land, or lack of game, or lack of license — but because of a law with roots in Puritan