Recent Hunting And Fishing Articles

The First Open Season in Years Comes With a Catch For the first time since 2023, both sport and commercial salmon fishing will be legal in California waters this spring. After years of closures that squeezed anglers and devastated commercial fishing operations up and down the coast, the news lande

A Proposed Rule Could Reshape How Hunters and Trappers Access National Preserves For the first time in years, hunters and trappers who have long operated in Alaska's national preserves may be looking at a genuine shift in how federal land policy treats their way of life. The Department of the Inte

The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission has given Northeast anglers something to look forward to this season. The ASMFC approved up to a 20% increase in the black sea bass harvest for 2026, which means more fish heading home in the cooler at the end of the day. But the exact rules depend on

A bill that started because of a duck hunting dispute in a small Tennessee town has passed the state Senate and is now making its way through the House. The legislation is simple in its goal: make it crystal clear that the state — not cities or counties — has the final say over legal hunting method

Three Senate proposals are quietly rewriting the rules for millions of law-abiding firearm owners across the state Something significant is happening in St. Paul, and it isn't getting nearly enough attention. Three bills quietly working their way through the Minnesota Senate have the potential to

Major League Fishing just made it official — O'Reilly Auto Parts is sticking around, and in a bigger way than before. The two organizations announced an expanded sponsorship deal that makes O'Reilly Auto Parts an Official Sponsor across every single MLF circuit, not just a handful of events here an

The 7 Most Difficult Freshwater Fish to Land in North America Image credit: OpenAI For the devoted angler, the thrill of landing a difficult catch i

For hunters who've spent time sitting against a tree trunk, back aching, trying not to move a muscle while a deer works its way through the timber, the appeal of a better ground hunting setup is obvious. That's the problem a small American outdoor company has spent years trying to solve — and they

The Sacramento Man Who Tried to Argue His Way Out of Prison With a Unique Defense A California man recently stood before a federal judge and made an argument that most legal experts had never heard before — that his love of hunting was so powerful, so all-consuming, it should be treated like any o

The Colorado Parks & Wildlife Commission voted 6-4 on Wednesday to advance a citizen's petition that would prohibit the sale, barter, and trade of wildlife fur in the state. The vote came after nearly four hours of public comment inside a packed DoubleTree Hotel conference room — a venue swap f