Wisconsin Articles

December can be a challenging time for whitetails throughout much of the their range, and the hunting can be feast or famine, based largely on food and pressure.

Hunters killed about 500 more black bears during the 2020 season, according to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.

Youth-only deer hunting opportunities are common throughout the country, and it pays to take advantage of them when introducing a boy or girl to the hunting tradition.

For the first time this late summer and fall, the author plans a layering winter rye system to lure Wisconsin whitetails.

The author has planted soybeans for many years in his Midwest food plots, but that stops in 2020.

Pursuing mature bucks is great, but sometimes getting back to the basics of whitetail hunting and targeting any deer is welcomed.

After a lifetime of pursuing whitetails across the country, the biggest problem the author has seen is deer hunters refusing to face up to reality and make changes.

Deer tags filled and can’t bear the 4-month wait for spring turkey season? Brave the cold for a December turkey — or three.

Turn your squirrel tails into one (or more) of the nation's most popular fishing lures, the Mepps spinner, or exchange them for cash.

Bowhunter Matt Wachowiak, a student at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, recently tagged a whitetail with an unofficial gross green score of 200 2/8 inches.

Archers of all skill levels are invited to take aim at 100 unique 3-D targets during the Rinehart 100 July event in Sparta.

With concerns of too many deer, and nearby CWD, Wisconsin’s Buffalo County Deer Advisory Council is recommending a harvest of no bucks, only antlerless deer, in 2019.

A proposal by the U.S. Department of Interior to delist gray wolves from endangered species protection is drawing mixed reactions.

Wisconsin conservation officials reduced the number of bear hunting permits for the 2019 season after data showed a decline in the state's population of bruins.

A Wisconsin ice angler spears a 69-inch, 69-pound sturgeon that is estimated to be 54 years old. And it’s all captured on video.

The guys from The Hunting Public have reached the end of their 2018/2019 deer pursuit, and their final hunting episode on YouTube is a fitting end to an outstanding season.

Ten Wisconsin cities rank among the 20 drunkest cities in the U.S. and a recent article suggest the state's hunting culture is partly responsible.

A summit this week has been scheduled in northwestern Wisconsin to discuss if the state should resume control of a growing wolf population.

More than 9 percent of white-tailed deer tested positive for chronic wasting disease last year, and game officials are worried the affliction will be difficult to stop.

Governor Scott Walker calls hunting, fishing and trapping "major pastimes" in Wisconsin, and says the bill provides hunters with "additional protections from interference."

A wandering beaver pesters drivers at a busy intersection in suburban Milwaukee.

Wisconsin's governor signs two bills loosening the state's gun regulations. The bills had bipartisan support.

The state Department of Natural Resources' board has prohibited hunters from killing antlerless deer in 13 counties this fall in an effort to regrow the herd in those areas.

Spot a dead deer on the side of the road? Gov. Scott Walker doesn't want the state Department of Natural Resources paying $700K to clean it up.

Wisconsin deer hunter Jared Thiede and his family hunted a buck they called "Picket" for three years before Jared finally killed the whopper in Vernon County.

Wisconsin plans to ask wolf hunters and trappers to let a federal wildlife specialist watch them skin their kills this fall to determine whether hunters' dogs are attacking the animals in the woods.

Some northern Wisconsin business owners are concerned about how new restrictions on deer hunting will impact their bottom line.

Fishing limits have been a source of tension since the 1980s, when non-tribal anglers staged racial protests that included rock-throwing and fake Native American heads impaled on pikes.

Anglers in northern Wisconsin can keep largemouth bass this season for the first time in 22 years.