Recent Outdoors Articles

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

Colorado's Furbearer Fight: Inside the Push to Cap Kills and Kill the Fur Trade For generations, trappers and hunters across Colorado have worked beavers, bobcats, coyotes, and foxes with almost no numerical ceiling on how many animals they could take in a single outing. That era may be drawing to

Lake Erie's Walleye Obsession: Where Science Meets a Fishing Culture Like No Other There is a particular kind of madness that takes hold of a man once he gets serious about walleye fishing on Lake Erie. It doesn't announce itself — it creeps in somewhere between the pre-dawn alarm clock and the th

How One Utah Lawmaker's Multi-Year Campaign to Preserve Hunting Country Cut the Ute Tribe Out of Its Own Ancestral Land In the northeastern corner of Utah, the Book Cliffs rise out of the high desert in a wall of broken sandstone and forested ridgeline that stretches, almost unbroken, for 250 mile

7 Epic Hikes You Can Do With The Grandkids Image credit: Flux.1 There's something genuinely special about introducing a younger generation to the ou

Indiana's Bobcat Controversy: How a 60% Quota Increase Is Dividing Hunters, Scientists, and Wildlife Advocates Indiana's bobcat is a ghost of the hardwood forest — rarely seen, rarely photographed, and for more than half a century, rarely spoken of as quarry. That changed dramatically in the fall

After 30 Years of Silence, the Northern Edge of Georges Bank Is Back on the Table For three decades, the Northern Edge of Georges Bank sat off-limits — a stretch of ocean as storied and productive as any fishing ground in the Western Hemisphere, walled off by federal regulation while generations o

5 Topwater Lures for Epic Bass Fishing Image credit: Gentleman's Pursuits/Canva If you’re chasing that heart-pounding moment when a bass smashes you

14 Essential Hunting Tools for the Field Image credit: Gentleman's Pursuits/Canva If you're a hunter, you know having the right gear at home can mak

Europe's Lead Fishing Tackle Ban Is Almost Law — And It Should Make Every American Angler Pay Attention After years of scientific debate, political maneuvering, and a drawn-out regulatory process, the European Union is now on the verge of one of the most significant environmental policy decisions