Wisconsin Articles

Kip Adams lays out five smart reasons to tag a doe early, even when heat, hunting pressure, and your own excuses tempt you to wait.

If you’ve planted food plots for whitetails for any length of time, you’ve faced this dilemma: The calendar says you should plant but it’s bone dry. What should you do?

Tired of hunting the same old haunts but still need to feed your whitetail addiction? Here’s a look at four very special hunts ready to whet your appetite for adventure.

State wildlife board approves an increase to a record number of licenses as officials seek higher harvest target.

During fall 2025, the author and his hunting partners field tested five annual seed blends from Mossy Oak BioLogic on three of their western Wisconsin food plots.

The author and his family test three blends from Magnet Outdoors on a few of their Wisconsin food plots.

Wisconsin DNR officials stopped trapping efforts two weeks after a bear attack but still are monitoring the area for a sow and cub.

In a world of high-tech fishing, it’s refreshing to see an angler who is the definition of “old school.”

When a tom is gobbling sporadically, it’s time to silently — no hen talk! — slip into his “bubble.”

Check out this rare under-the-ice view of a trophy northern pike swimming away after being released by an angler.

After a truck falls through the ice in deep water, it’s a monumental task to pull it to the surface.

Haley Hergiz, 22, recently speared the fourth largest sturgeon ever recorded in Wisconsin’s Lake Winnebago system.

During late summer 2024 in western Wisconsin, the author planted three food plot blends from Evolved. How did they grow, and did the local whitetails target these green fields?

Wisconsin DNR is asking for public assistance to help locate bear den sites for an ongoing research project.

You don’t need a fancy boat and thousands of dollars in high-tech electronics to catch fish, even muskies. And these young anglers from Wisconsin prove it.

For the first time, the author's home state of Minnesota is allowing crossbows for use during the general archery season — no age or physical condition limitations — and as expected, compound shooters are not pleased.

Check out the surveillance footage from Noodles & Company in Beloit, Wisconsin, when a young 4x4 whitetail buck crashes through a window and enters the restaurant.

Throughout much of the Midwest, Halloween marks the start of the best whitetail deer hunting of the season. Do you have realistic expectations for the next couple of weeks?

Bowhunting is inherently challenging, but the degree of difficulty increases on public land.

The owner of an unoccupied ice fishing shanty had to chase it for a few miles as it blew across Wisconsin’s Lake Winnebago.

Each February thousands of anglers venture onto massive Lake Winnebago with hopes of spearing a massive sturgeon. On Feb. 14, 2023, James Gishkowsky harvested a 177-pounder, which ranks No. 7 all time on the lake.

Muskie fishing in mid-November in northern Wisconsin can be summed up in one word — brutal. But sometimes the reward is worth the pain.

The author guides a first-time turkey hunter to a Wisconsin gobbler, thanks in large part to a chatty hen.

The hunter could legally have shot either buck, but instead he set them both free.

Wisconsin angler Nicole Lynn catches her biggest muskie yet, and she’s in a kayak!

If you want to take an inventory of mature whitetail bucks in your area, then cover some ground in a vehicle during summer and glass green fields at sunset.

Bowhunting whitetails on public land is a challenge, and this well-done film takes you through all the single-season highs and lows.

Badger State hunters/trappers culled more than 200 wolves during an abbreviated February season.

The Wisconsin DNR plans to issue 4,000 licenses for a February 2021 gray wolf hunt.

Gray wolves might once again be fair game for Wisconsin hunters as early as this fall.