Midwest

Ronnie Stevens with his buck shortly after recovering the deer. The rack grossed an even 195 and netted 187 7/8, making it the 5th-largest typical ever taken in Ohio.  Photo courtesy of Ronnie Stevens.

Ronnie Stevens exchanged the memory card in his trail camera, turned the power back on and latched the door closed.…»

Photo by Pete Maina

My home in the Twin Cities west metro is also my fishing headquarters. Every aspect of my arsenal is always…»

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If Michigan didn’t have such great fishing for trout, salmon and walleyes, then its smallmouth bass would be king. Brown…»

Photo by Ron Sinfelt

The state of Indiana is literally surrounded by top-tier buck-producing states. The sister states that border Indiana, deer hunting hotspots…»

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Illinois catfish water can be divided into ponds, rivers and lakes. All are part of the Mississippi River drainage, but…»

Photo by Ron Sinfelt

Hawkeye hunters are smack dab in the middle of some of the nation’s best whitetail deer hunting. Iowa big buck…»

The author with a massive Red River catfish caught near the community of Drayton, North Dakota, while filming a television show.  Photo by Jason Mitchell.

The Red River of the North is one of the few rivers in the continental United States that flows due…»

Photo by Ron Sinfelt

Bass and crappie have headed for their deepwater sanctuaries and seem to prefer feeding early and late in the day…»

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A recent high school graduate has more to celebrate than his diploma. Zack Seitz, 18, shot the Wisconsin record carp…»

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A Minnesota fisherman is in deep trouble after fishing way over the limit. According to the Minnesota Department of Natural…»

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KANSAS KITTENS Kansas’ catfish resource is much like that of Nebraska. There is an abundance of channels, blues and flatheads…»

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A Michigan man reeled in the new state record flathead last month, breaking a nearly 69-year-old record. Rodney Akey of…»

Photo by Ron Sinfelt

Thanks to my dad’s love of fishing, our family spent nearly every summer vacation at Table Rock Lake during my…»

Josh Tiegen hefts a 46-inch muskie caught at Millicent Lake in the Pike Lake Chain. It takes time and an excellent fishery to produce a freshwater fish this large. Photo courtesy of Josh Tiegen.

Most women can remember the details of their first kiss. Many men from my generation learned to suppress emotional displays…»