by Joe Shead | May 28, 2025
Though I continue to believe omens, signs or premonitions are total baloney, I did note some rather convincing portents while fishing the Wisconsin River one spring evening. Some people put a lot of faith in omens, signs, premonitions or whatever you choose to call...
by Reid Bryant | May 27, 2025
The man who taught me grouse and woodcock lives with his wife in a Vermont hamlet just this side of Canada. He has some gray in his beard these days but only enough to make him look as wise as his years, and he smells like pipe smoke and cherry-wood shavings. He heats...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Mar 5, 2021
In 2014, when the last wolf hunt was held in Wisconsin, it took nearly two months to harvest 117 wolves. In 2021, it took 48 hours to harvest 200 wolves. Last fall, following successful conservation efforts, Interior Secretary David Bernhardt announced the removal of...
by Tom Davis | Oct 20, 2020
A woman of breathtaking beauty was absolutely the last thing he expected to see in such a desolate place. I’d been on a Jim Harrison binge in the wake of his death—easy to do given his prodigious output. In particular, I’d been enjoying the stuff set in Michigan’s...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Sep 23, 2020
An 11-year-old girl in Wisconsin recently killed her first black bear, and it may just beat the record for the largest black bear harvested in the state. On opening day of her first bear hunt and accompanied by her grandfather, the sixth-grader spotted her first black...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Aug 21, 2020
Eligible disabled hunters hoping to participate in the 2020 gun deer hunt for hunters with disabilities must contact a hunt sponsor to sign up before September 1. As of the June 1 sponsor application deadline, 76 sponsors have enrolled over 70,000 acres of land across...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Jun 26, 2020
The application period for the 2021 bear hunting season will open July 1 after the successful completion of legislative review. The application deadline remains Dec. 10, 2020. Applicants are reminded to be aware of the new bear management zone boundaries as their...
by Daniel Isermann | May 27, 2020
The busts accumulated in earnest while he relearned the lessons lost during a decade away from the goose blind. Dawn had come and gone but the geese still squabbled from the roost, holding tight to a small pond tucked into the rolling topography of central Wisconsin...
by Sporting Classics Daily | May 7, 2020
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is issuing two corrections to the 2020-2021 Guide to Wisconsin Trout Fishing Regulations effective May 2, 2020. The 2020-2021 Guide to Wisconsin Trout Fishing Regulations contained incorrect bag and length limits and gear...
by Sporting Classics Daily | Feb 27, 2020
The opening of the bear permit application period for the 2021 bear hunting season will be delayed this year while the new 2021 zone structure works its way through legislative review. The application period, which normally opens in March, will open shortly after the...
