Recent Outdoors Articles

Congress Takes Aim at the World's Most Brazen Maritime Cheaters For decades, American fishermen — from the red snapper captains working the Gulf of Mexico to the crab and salmon fleets anchored off Alaska — have watched foreign vessels strip the world's oceans with something close to impunity. The

Frankenfish Rising: How Bowfishing Became the Front Line Against the Chesapeake's Most Notorious Invader After dark on the Potomac River, somewhere near Quantico, Virginia, the water tells a different story than it does in daylight. A boat moves slowly through shallow tributaries. The river buzzes

The Fish That Broke Washington: How a Red Snapper Season Became a Federal Showdown Somewhere off the coast of St. Augustine, in water roughly 150 feet deep, a red snapper was putting up the kind of fight that keeps saltwater anglers booking charters months in advance. The angler on the other end o

5 Best Baits for Fishing the Bass Spawn Image credit: Flux.1 Few moments in freshwater fishing rival the bass spawn — a brief, predictable window ea

The Fall of the Reef Donkey: How the Gulf's Greater Amberjack Fishery Collapsed — and What Comes Next For anyone who has ever dropped a heavy jig to the bottom around a Gulf of Mexico oil platform and felt what happens next — the sudden, freight-train surge, the burning drag, the rod bent nearly t

7 Underrated Western US Fishing Destinations Image credit: Flux.1 The American West is legendary fishing country, but most anglers end up crowding t

Oregon's PEACE Act: The Ballot Initiative That Would Criminalize Hunting, Fishing, and the American Outdoor Way of Life It started as a fringe idea championed by a small circle of Portland-based animal rights activists. Now it's a genuine political flashpoint with national implications. A petition

Polaris and the Foundation for America's Public Lands Just Committed $700,000 to Save the Trails You Ride There is a quiet crisis unfolding across the American West that doesn't make headlines the way wildfires or drought do, but its consequences are felt every time a rider pulls into a rutted-out

The Off-Roading Executive Order Is a Land Sell-Off in Disguise Late on a Friday evening — the preferred dumping ground for political moves nobody wants scrutinized — the Trump White House issued an executive order purporting to expand access to federal public lands for off-road vehicle users. The

Summer's Most Dangerous Ritual: What Every ATV and UTV Rider Needs to Know Before Hitting the Road Every Memorial Day weekend, millions of Americans roll their ATVs and UTVs out of garages, barns, and storage units and point them toward the nearest trail, dirt road, or — increasingly — public stre