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Congress Moves to Lock In Commercial Fishing Access to Marine Monuments — and It's Bigger Than It Looks A bill quietly advancing through the U.S. House of Representatives could permanently redraw the boundary between presidential power and commercial fishing rights in some of the most ecologically

How a Single Magazine Article Turned Sheep Hunting Into a Rich Man's Game There is a moment in the history of American hunting when a pursuit defined by solitude, physical hardship, and a genuine love of wild places became something else entirely — a scoreboard. That moment arrived, quietly enough

Minnesota Finally Upgrades Its Hunting and Fishing License System — And It's About Time For more than a quarter-century, every angler pulling a walleye out of Mille Lacs and every deer hunter sitting in a blind somewhere in the Boundary Waters corridor has dealt with the same clunky, outdated mach

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