PATRICK DURKIN OUTDOORS

SODA SPRINGS, Idaho — The shot had felt good, the distance only 25 yards, and the blood sign looked lethal when I found my arrow 20 yards...

SODA SPRINGS, Idaho -- Funny how much you read into things when looking at the world through aging eyes. The first leaves dropping from...

Just like most serious bowhunters, Gregg Johnson is counting down the days to Wisconsin’s Sept. 18 archery deer season opener. But unlike...

My 3-year-old grandson looked up with a pained urgency every parent recognizes, and then grabbed his shorts for emphasis. Before I could...

In between bluegills and an occasional largemouth bass, Travis Lambert recalled shirking his boyhood chores on the family’s cranberry...

Looking and sounding like frazzled parents warning a daughter not to marry the town drunk, DNR Secretary Preston Cole and three Natural...

A flying dark blur caught my eye a few summers ago as I pulled the first arrow from my backyard deer target. Startled, I scanned the...

Whether trappers make a set to catch furbearers for pelts, or to help biologists tag, release and follow wildlife for research, their...

Three of Bob Ellis’ nephews caught four of the five muskies registered in this year’s 17th annual Bob Ellis Classic memorial row-trolling...

Professor Valerius Geist of Canada didn’t need his green-trimmed suitcoat to stand apart from crowds, no matter their size or stations in...

Wisconsin’s rich mix of houndsmen, bird-dog hunters and conservation organizations are quietly debating whether the Department of Natural...

You’ll have to excuse deer hunters around Wisconsin for faking a sneeze and blowing profanities into their elbows when asked about the...

The man who brought the “County Deer Advisory Council” process to Wisconsin’s deer hunters in 2014 is the same man now doing the most to...

If superstitions about shoddy ship launchings were valid, I would have put my cedar-strip rowboat on Craig’s List the morning after its...

Wisconsin hunters registered 37,179 turkeys during the six-week season ending June 1, a 17.3% decline from Spring 2020, according to...

Like soured milk fouling the fridge after its expiration date, dentist/cranberry farmer Frederick Prehn of Wausau is tainting Wisconsin’s...

Nearly a minute had passed since the longbeard strutted in to model and posture for our hen decoy. And there the gobbler stood, flexing...

I gave up golfing and skiing this past week, only 39 years after I last golfed and 45 years after I last skied. Maybe I’m slow to catch...

Every few years I stumble across an eastern hognose snake while hunting turkeys or morel mushrooms. And every time I respond much the...

The more you fish from boats, the more likely you’ll consign rods, reels, wristwatches, smartphones, boat anchors or entire tackle boxes...