PATRICK DURKIN OUTDOORS

A social-media friend sent a link last week to You Tube videos about using “feminine napkins” as bait for catching bass, catfish, lake...

In the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day, I enjoy scrolling through photos from the previous 51 weeks to sharpen memories already...

Whether you study deer-kill data or taxidermists’ work orders from the lands west of Madison, the long-predicted plunge in the region’s...

Mike Purnell and his brother Lloyd concede they can’t find every carcass, skeleton or bone after deer die of chronic wasting disease on...

Despite sending over a half-million deer hunters afield for late November’s nine-day gun season, Wisconsin suffered only one accidental...

When you have hunters, trappers, anglers or campers on your holiday shopping list, you can’t claim they make gift-giving difficult...

Since my father persuaded his friend Charlie Merkle to take me deer hunting in Vilas County in November 1971, I’ve hunted only six other...

At risk of annoying my fellow old-folk hunters, please remind your hunting partners to keep an eye on you – and you on them – when you’re...

BONNERS FERRY, Idaho — A death-bed confession of sorts inspired Logan Hyrkas to organize a hunt for mountain deer in Idaho’s Panhandle...

The 89,480 deer that arrow-slingers registered during Wisconsin’s 2023 archery and crossbow seasons marked the third straight year of...

When walking around a dead man’s hunting camp, each glance and every step seems to stir up old stories, memories and unasked questions...

The captain’s chair at the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources sits empty a year after former DNR secretary Adam Payne gave 10...

It’s time Wisconsin’s wolf-haters and wolf-huggers lower their picket signs, lay down their smartphones and lock themselves into a padded...

Jess and Matt Weber will never know if it was the squirrel dumplings, wild-turkey soup or a flurry of midafternoon trail-cam photos that...

When hunting or fishing new areas, I need about three years of scouting, studying and preying to learn enough to succeed consistently.   ...

CASCADE, Idaho — A small fleet of fishing boats ranging from one-person kayaks to low-slung, rocket-propelled bass boats squeezed me from...

One can’t help but smirk each autumn when the Department of Natural Resources issues its reminders and suggestions to hunters preparing...

The iPhone’s screen read “3:05” a.m. after I set the 12th bag of elk meat beside the others.    Then I leaned backward, arms on hips,...

I don’t know the secret to creating a hunter or angler, but a key to failing either goal is a mother who won’t drive her kids to the...

During her 2011-2017 stint as Wisconsin DNR secretary, Cathy Stepp often preached that the agency must operate more like a private-sector...