Recent Hunting And Fishing Articles

Wisconsin Closes Sharp-Tailed Grouse Season for 2026 After 22% Population Drop For hunters who have spent years chasing Wisconsin's most elusive upland bird — a species that vanished from most of its former range decades ago and only recently showed signs of genuine recovery — the news out of Madi

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Strikes Down Warrantless Searches of Private Land in Unanimous Ruling For more than a century, a legal doctrine born in federal courts gave government agents — game wardens, wildlife officers, and other officials — a broad and largely unchallenged right to walk onto priv

The Bass Tactic Everyone Forgot That Still Works There's a good chance you've got one sitting in your tackle box right now — buried under a pile of soft plastics, squeezed between a crankbait and a half-used spool of monofilament. A spoon. Maybe two. You probably haven't touched them in years. And

Pennsylvania's Highest Court Draws a Hard Line: No More Warrantless Game Warden Searches on Private Land For more than a century, game wardens across the United States have operated under a legal doctrine that most private landowners never knew existed — and one that, if they did know about it, th

The Manufactured Hunt: Why the Release of Captive-Bred Animals for Shooting Is Facing a Reckoning Across the Western World Every autumn across Europe and the United States, tens of millions of birds are loaded onto trucks and dropped into fields and woodlands. They are pheasants, partridges, quail

Is Your Bow Actually Ready for Hunting Season? Here's a scenario that'll hit close to home for a lot of guys: you've been dreaming about this hunt for months. You've got your treestand picked out, your camo washed in scent-free detergent, and your trail cam showing a shooter buck working the same

Dead Fish in the Firehole: Yellowstone Shuts Down Three Iconic Rivers as Summer Heat Turns Lethal For the thousands of anglers who plan pilgrimages to Yellowstone National Park every year, the Madison, Firehole, and Gibbon rivers represent something close to sacred ground. These are fly-fishing wa

Oklahoma's Emergency Hunting Rules Are Now in Effect — Here's What Every Hunter Needs to Know If you planned a last-minute out-of-state deer hunt in Oklahoma this fall, your window for buying a license and heading straight to the field just closed. The Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission mov

Behind Bars and Into the Field: Montana's Prison Pheasant Program Is Growing — and So Is the Debate On a stretch of fenced agricultural land at the Montana State Penitentiary in Deer Lodge, a couple dozen ring-necked pheasants pace the wire walls of a flight pen, their iridescent feathers catching

California Salmon Fishing Is Back — And the Water Has Never Felt More Complicated For the first time in three years, recreational anglers up and down the California coast have been allowed to wet a line in pursuit of Chinook salmon. The feeling in the harbors and on the charter docks has been some