Our Outdoors: Giving Us Options
The wide ranging fishing options available to anglers in the upper Midwest becomes more astounding when compared to what was available 50 and 100 years ago. I hearken back to stories of my grandmother growing up along the pre-dammed Missouri River and think of all the options modern fisheries management provides today’s anglers, and the good it does in correcting previous errors we’ve made collectively…in our outdoors.
Our Outdoors: First Follow
Chilly temps bring warm thoughts of openwater and first experiences…in our outdoors.
Our Outdoors: Progress Toward a Mess
Highlighting the transition from order through excitement to mid-season mess that we find during ice fishing and all other seasons in our outdoors.
Our Outdoors: Getting Set for Spring
The long nights of winter provide time to prepare for spring, and things happen quick after we reach the end of January. This week’s Our Outdoors focuses on those efforts to plan and prepare for more and better openwater angling opportunities in just a few short weeks.
Our Outdoors: Today is Tomorrow
Where we are today in terms of hunting and fishing technology is amazing, and as things get even more connected, expect incredible developments over the next two decades…in our outdoors.
Our Outdoors: Just One
How a streak of tying and connecting to colors that worked on waters in the past, can turn just one jig into a memorable experience…in our outdoors.
Our Outdoors: Takeaways from 2020
Detailing the important things learned in 2020 and where we go from here with what we’ve taken from the year, in terms of continuing the good things the outdoors has provided for many of us in a time of challenge…
Our Outdoors: Go with the Flow
The final installment of Our Outdoors for 2020 details a fun trip chasing the flow of scent of bunched up late-season pheasants.
Our Outdoors: Let There be Light
Our Outdoors: Let There be LightBy Nick Simonson Like so many other outdoor activities, ice fishing offers up some incredible opportunities at dawn and dusk and even late into the night for crappies, walleyes and other fish that forage in low light or even in times of complete darkness when a hot bite can materialize out of the depths. As a result, having the right lighting system both for the individual and for a shack will help make things easier to see during set-up and takedown, travel around a set of hot holes, and in those moments where lure changes […]
