This table lists top fishing times and days for the coming weeks. For best results, begin fishing one hour before and continue one hour after the times given. Times apply to all time zones.

Sunday..............9:30 p.m.......................................................................9:55 a.m.

Monday.............10:15 p.m.....................Read more

After our first full day of backpacking along the Superior Hiking Trail, we hunkered down at a campsite along the Beaver River for the night.

With just over 20 miles hiked that day, my hiking partner Adam Wallenta and I were on pace to finish our 200-mile hike within the allotted 10 1/2 days.

We started our trip after work on a Friday ...Read more

TURTLE LAKE, Minn. -- Steve Long maneuvered his big pontoon boat closer to a patch of weeds on the north side of the lake and then held the boat steady.

"Try it here, Cec," Long said to his partner, Cecilia Riedman.

Riedman slung a rake-on-a-rope into the lake weeds, let it sink to the bottom, then pulled it back in. It was a good catch. ...Read more

SEATTLE -- It started with a simple bet. Ahmed Majeed knew there were giant fish in Green Lake -- there had to be. His co-workers didn't agree.

"They said 'forget it,' " Majeed said of his Microsoft co-workers. "But when I would go, I would see something jumping, and I knew."

He was determined to prove them wrong. After four hours on the ...Read more

This table lists top fishing times and days for the coming weeks. For best results, begin fishing one hour before and continue one hour after the times given. Times apply to all time zones.

Sunday..............3:50 p.m......................................................................4:20 a.m.

Monday.............4:45 p.m.......................Read more

LAKE WINNIBIGOSHISH -- Forgive Gerry Albert if he gets a little excited when he catches walleyes here.

"Here's another one!" Albert shouted as he set the hook on a walleye, working to keep a tight line and run his outboard in whitecaps. "Ohhh, and I think it's a keeper!"

Big Winnie is Albert's lake, so to speak. He's the Minnesota Department ...Read more

Ryan Hatfield received a slide of a photo taken in 1968 that showed a truckload of hunters and the deer they'd harvested in a motel parking lot. The hunters were strangers to the photographer.

As Hatfield examined the photo closely in Photoshop, he noticed the rack on one of the deer was of notable size.

He considered the quality of that deer,...Read more

MICHIGAN, N.D. -- For whatever reasons bears decide to wander where they don't normally wander, a bear decided to wander into Michigan, N.D., and has caused quite the buzz since June 6, when photos started showing up on social media.

Seth Smaage of Michigan took the first photos of the bear about 5 p.m. June 6, when it was standing just west of...Read more

Fishing -- turns out, there's an app for that. In fact, many apps. One of the best is Navionics, which produces a half-dozen or so apps that can be downloaded on a phone or iPad. These might not be as specifically for "fishing" as an app such as Fishbox.

But "Boating US and Canada," as one example of a Navionics app, can be critical to have as ...Read more

Ask Tom Watson to describe a good hiking trail, and he'll say it depends on the person using the trail.

There's no right or wrong answer.

"The old saying is, 'Another person's ceiling is another person's floor,' " said Watson, of Appleton, Minn., a longtime freelance outdoors writer and author of several books on trails, camping and paddling. ...Read more

This table lists top fishing times and days for the coming weeks. For best results, begin fishing one hour before and continue one hour after the times given. Times apply to all time zones.

Sunday..............3:35 a.m.....................................................................3:50 p.m.

Monday.............4:20 a.m........................Read more

OULU, Minn. -- David Lindelof stopped his Buick along Highway B in Bayfield County and watched a bluebird perched on top of a wooden nesting house, just as a ray of sunshine poked through the clouds.

"It's a bluebird morning for sure now," Lindelof said as he watched the scene through binoculars.

Just about every morning this time of year is a...Read more

GRAND FORKS, N.D. -- Rob Horken might best be remembered as "Ernie the Angler," his longtime alter ego who did weekly summer fishing reports on WDAZ-TV Channel 8 in Grand Forks. But in retirement, Horken keeps his feet in the fishing waters by building custom fishing rods.

Any size, any color, Horken probably can build it. The retirement gig is...Read more

DULUTH, Minn. -- When Troy Skorich of Hermantown, Minn., and Tim MacDougall of Duluth won last weekend's 2018 Berg Construction Walleye Cup on the St. Louis River, they pulled up to the dock with no fish to weigh.

In fact, none of the 60 tournament boats kept any fish to weigh.

Instead, the winners of the tournament were determined not by ...Read more

There is a burst of whispered interjections -- "Whoa!" and "Cool!" -- when the kids see the rows of snowshoes sticking out of the snow.

Earlier, in a brief in-class presentation, ranger and Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest youth and community engagement coordinator Tessa Rough showed photos of the snowshoes. But most of the Index ...Read more

This table lists top fishing times and days for the coming weeks. For best results, begin fishing one hour before and continue one hour after the times given. Times apply to all time zones.

Sunday..............5:00 p.m....................................................................5:30 a.m.

Monday.............5:55 p.m.........................Read more

Mother Nature answered the prayers of anglers, bait shop owners and resorters last week with an improbable mix of rain, wind and sunshine that unlocked frozen lakes in time for last weekend's walleye and northern pike fishing opener.

The last-minute ice-outs on Leech Lake, Kabetogama, Winnibigoshish, Pokegama, Upper Red Lake and Lake Vermilion ...Read more