The walleye may be Nebraska’s most popular, albeit often hard-to-catch, game fish. It is known for not only having great-tasting fillets, but also for growing big and providing anglers a fishing challenge. Despite its reputation for being hard to catch, at certain...
The success of striped bass in our freshwater reservoirs represents one of the great modern-day stories of nature’s ability to adapt. We got skunked that day, yet it remains one of my most vivid fishing memories. It was a warm spring morning in 1963. My dad had...
The New Jersey Division of Fish & Wildlife is excited to share that CHANJ (Connecting Habitat Across New Jersey) is featured in a new episode of the PBS show EcoSense for Living. CHANJ is an effort to make the New Jersey landscape and roadways more permeable for...
The packs grew heavy on their backs, the rifles like lead in their hands. But they continued on. Neither knew how many miles lay ahead. It is said that the ancient shamans knew when a man’s last day had come. They could see it in the stars, the smoke, the shadows,...
If you’re like me, you’ve got game from a hunting trip years ago still shoved in the back of your freezer. Don’t let it go to waste. A decade ago, I arrived home from Ungava with meat from two fine caribou. To store it, I bought an upright freezer....
The old rod had a history far richer than any he ever imagined when he first bought it, so many lives ago. And now his own life was about to change. He hovered just inches above my face, urgently pounding me with questions that I desperately needed for him to answer...
Fishermen on Quebec’s Gaspé Peninsula can not only roll the dice on landing an Atlantic salmon, but go after a high-odds striper as well. If you’ve ever cast a sinking line into a deep crystalline stream hoping to entice a 20-pound Atlantic salmon to snap...
Landowners who are interested in a 2020 deer gratis license can start the online-only application process now. The deadline for applying is June 3. The general deer and muzzleloader lottery applications will be available online in early May, also with a deadline of...
When Parker Whedon died on March 16, 2012 after a long struggle with Parkinson’s disease and the myriad complications associated with the illness, the world of turkey hunting lost perhaps its final direct link to the sport’s great names of yesteryear. From the time...
Man or woman, dog or gun, you never know when you might say goodbye. Fixing to write this down before I forget, the days and years slipping away the way they do, that blaze of autumn to water the eye, the flames of maple and oak and the dry-bone rattling aspen, that...
