Fishing

Incredibly, Joe Wiseman shoots with a draw weight of 62 pounds, and increases it to 72 when hunting, no small feat, even for someone with two good arms.

The formerly unheralded river with a reputation for heavy-metal contamination has suddenly entered the conversation as a contender for the title of Colorado's top trout fishing stream.

Big box outdoor retailer Gander Mountain has been experimenting with a number of firearms-only stores for the past year, but that experiment is ending.

The proposal also eliminates the fee to receive pheasant, furbearer, and habitat or migratory fowl stamps for hunters.

The Supreme Court has turned away an appeal by the state of Alaska in a long-running fight over the control of rivers and the fishing and hunting rights of Alaska Natives.

Many anglers take special care not to run ethanol-mixed fuel through their boats, but even still, if the boat has sat up for a while, a fuel check is a good idea.

New regulations have been put in place heading into Michigan's 2014-15 fishing season.

Gov. Dave Heineman has vetoed a bill that would outlaw mountain lion hunting in Nebraska.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will distribute nearly $1.1 billion in excise tax revenues paid by sportsmen and sportswomen to state and territorial fish and wildlife agencies to fund fish and wildlife conservation and recreation projects.

As the water level rose, the team slowly worked into the flats via ditches that provided enough depth for the boat. It was on these weed-choked flats and slightly deeper ponds where the Metal WhoDat Spoon did most of its damage.

Word spread through the tournament ranks that night, and it continued to spread. Within a couple of weeks, almost everyone Matt Hougan talked to was pulling the new jerkbait.

Crankbaits prompt reaction strikes from fish that might study and eventually reject something smaller and slower moving. They also increase your odds of finding large trout that live in a stream, but do so without culling numbers.

Why the marshes have been hit with a plague of undersized trout is anyone's guess. Anglers have theorized it's the result of a really strong spawn during the summer of 2013, but it's too soon to tell whether that's the case.

New Mexico and Colorado have teamed up with Native American tribes and several federal agencies to conserve the Rio Grande cutthroat trout.

It starts with minimizing the strain on thigh and calf muscles by stepping over, not on top of, logs and rocks.

Traditional Maine smelt fishing is banned in the lower half of the state this spring from Stonington to the New Hampshire border.

Louisiana amends the 2014-2015 resident-game hunting regulations to allow hunters a three-day possession limit of small game, rabbit, squirrels and quail, but kept the daily limits of eight on squirrels and rabbits and 10 per day on quail.