Policy Brief Details Animal Rights Group’s Efforts to Ban Live Bait 

Alexandria, VA – December 15, 2025 – The American Sportfishing Association (ASA), with support from recreational fishing community partners, released a new policy brief detailing efforts by an international animal rights organization to restrict the use and sale of live bait in US waters. To date, significant restrictions on the interstate sale and purchase of live […]

Chronic wasting disease in Tennessee whitetail deer continues creeping eastward

By Richard Simms | WAYNE COUNTY, Tenn. — Chronic wasting disease (CWD) in whitetail deer continues creeping in an eastward direction in Tennessee. The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) has received the first-ever positive chronic wasting disease (CWD) test result in a road-killed deer found in Wayne County. Since Wayne County is already within the current CWD […]

In the Spotlight: Mossy Oak BioLogic

By Alan Clemons | A look behind the scenes of Mossy Oak BioLogic and the company’s Gamekeepers magazine and podcast. Food plots for hunting are firmly part of our modern strategies but aren’t new. Hunters many decades ago realized that homestead gardens attracted deer, and other wildlife. Families have handed down tales of great-grandpa killing Ol’ Swamper […]

It’s worth the wait for safe ice fishing 

By Brandon Butler | I have the ice fishing bug. Last winter I went to Devil’s lake, North Dakota with the goal of catching a 15-inch yellow perch. The longest I landed was 14. I’m going back this year, again with the hope of landing a wall hanger. But I must admit, being on the […]

Fish Hunt Forever – Ice Fishing Begins as Deer Season Ends

This week we’re talking about ice fishing getting into full swing and how we’re on the back end of the deer hunting season here in Minnesota. Lucas Mertens from Haybale Heights joins us from his Snobear on Devils Lake to tell us how things are going up there. Robbie Johnson from Johnson’s Walleye Retreat and […]

Rivers and Feathers Tropical ‘Trout’ with Attitude: Golden Dorado on the Fly

By Peter Brookes | The sun was sagging on the horizon of the Parana—South America’s second-longest river—when a bulge of tea-stained water pushed out from the rocky bank and rolled in the direction of my fly. With a 7-weight fly rod tucked under my arm, I was ripping a 6-inch black and red Andino Deceiver […]

RMEF Helps Add 8,850 Acres of Public Land to Michigan’s Elk Country

MISSOULA, Mont. — Located in the heart of Michigan’s elk range, the Pigeon River Country State Forest in the state’s Lower Peninsula now includes an additional 8,850 acres, thanks to the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation’s contribution of funds for a recent land acquisition by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR). The DNR’s purchase of […]

Wisconsin Northland Outdoors Radio

This week we have reports from Hayward Bait and Bottle. Then we talk ice fishing and more with Hayward area fishing guide Noah Glitto. Lots more information on Hayward, Northern Wisconsin, fishing guides and more on our website http://wiscnorthlandoutdoors.com/ Listen here

Dan Small Outdoors

This week, Outdoors Radio features podcast host Pierce Nelles, hunter education instructor Scotty Phillips, and conservationist Doug Duren. Jeff reports on his muzzleloader hunt. Dan digs out after another snowstorm and looks forward to rabbit hunting. Pierce Nelles, host of The Wisconsin Sportsman podcast, tells the story of a monster buck he hunted last bow […]