PATRICK DURKIN OUTDOORS

Remember those 13 hunting and fishing bills unveiled Oct. 13 at the Capitol with hoopla, hollow talk and countless selfies as part of the...

At 6-foot-4 and a lean 240 pounds, Joe Swanson fits the profile of a college football tight end. Swanson, a 22-year-old senior at the...

Skeptics question whether ice anglers really need to drill a score of holes before bouncing between them like a trick-or-treater, their...

The caller wasn’t disguising his irritation for airboats, noise pollution, fishing guides, fishing tournaments, underwater cameras,...

Reprinted from Aug. 19, 2018 Wildlife agencies are forever printing brochures, updating websites and cranking out press releases to...

If a meteor were to strike Earth tomorrow, and a coyote and Greg Kazmierski were the only survivors to crawl from the rubble, who would...

It’s hard to look at Wisconsin’s 2021 deer season results and not picture some old guy trying to squeeze into his long-forsaken Army...

Wisconsin this month fortified its standing as the capital of the world for chronic wasting disease by verifying the plague in wild deer...

Soon after man invented birdfeed, he invented birdfeeders. And he’s been scheming how to keep squirrels off his feeders ever since. That...

Fresh turkey tracks in my cousin’s field of corn stubble made me consider multi-tasking last week as I planned my final 2021 deer hunt...

Fifteen years have passed since my daughter Leah was last a regular hunter at our cousins’ 200-acre farm in Richland County. I thought...

My prized fishing gear includes a dozen Mitchell 300 reels, trays of paint-chipped Dardevles, and my grandfather’s wooden Tronick Tackler...

Not many years ago, Doug Duren often handed out ballcaps with “N.B.N.Y.” embroidered up front. The initials stood for Nice Buck Next...

My wife and I moved from Waupaca to Eau Claire a year ago, which required packing all my hunting and fishing gear into a new home and...

My oldest daughter, Leah, hunted deer with me for the first time since 2014. A good friend, Tom Heberlein, saw deer from his favorite...

Most of us can’t put a face with the name of people who die in hunting accidents. Other than reporting that someone died from a gunshot...

If you live in Dodge County, Wisconsin, and you’re wondering which no-good neighbor stole your backyard clothesline, don’t start pointing...

When Wisconsin’s roughly 590,000 deer hunters head out Nov. 20 for the annual nine-day gun season, we’ll find the deer woods far safer...

Here’s some news the Department of Natural Resources probably won’t share with its seven-citizen policy board, or the folks now reviewing...

Wisconsin held its first bowhunting season in 1934. It lasted five days, attracted 40 archers, protected antlerless deer, covered only...