PATRICK DURKIN OUTDOORS

Good fishing stories write themselves after you futilely search Madison’s Lake Mendota for suspended walleyes and return instead with 10...

Some men walk through woodlands and fallow fields each summer and see only weeds and lush brush. But when Sam Thayer follows their...

When Mercer-area friends, family and fishing guides advise visitors to “fish the wood” on the Turtle-Flambeau Flowage, they really aren’t...

As Tyson Hall and Chad White of Cross Plains watched the Piper Cub disappear into Alaska’s skies in early May, they couldn’t wait to...

Ron Leys retired over three decades ago as the Milwaukee Journal’s outdoors editor, roughly four years before Wisconsin’s largest...

Those who risk paddling a canoe or tandem kayak with kin or friends might never speak again once reaching shore and retreating to...

This guy I've long known has always looked smart and talked intelligently, and so I listened closely when he said I shouldn’t dismiss...

You’d think a creature as regal as the common loon would have the instincts and intelligence to follow boats other than mine when seeking...

Barring mass outrage by users of the DNR’s mobile app, Wisconsin hunters will never again tap the “Hunt Wild WI” icon on their tablet or...

Who needs a babysitter when Steven Rinella is in town signing copies of his latest New York Times bestseller, “Catch a Crayfish, Count...

Retired conservation warden Jerry Carow doesn’t need his notes or case files to recall the most famous person he ever cited for failure...

Rock bass smash any bait tossed in front of them but fight with all the ferocity of paper towels once hooked. Still, one must admire this...

When someone teaches you how to fish their favorite steelhead river on Lake Superior, you’re obligated to learn how precisely you can...

Jerry Hamm easily explains how he happened to see a dead white-tailed fawn hanging upside down 15 feet up a red oak, its hips wedged into...

Sensing excitement in the elbow-shot to my ribs, I leaned closer to my daughter Leah to better hear her whispers. “They’re moving our...

The audience packing the Grand Theatre in Wausau, Wisconsin, rose to its feet when Gordon Lightfoot took the stage at age 83 on June 15,...

The Department of Natural Resources questions a random sampling of turkey hunters each summer to learn important stuff like how often...

A tsunami of opposition to wakeboard boats swept through Wisconsin’s statewide conservation hearings in mid-April, with 62% of voters...

As Wisconsin biologists tracked the nation’s largest lake-sturgeon spawning run in April, they knew they wouldn’t see the record female...

I smirked when pulling the Oshkosh Northwestern’s April 15, 1990, outdoors page from a folder in my filing cabinets a few days ago. Over...