Idaho's Sawtooth National Recreation Area is a rugged Idaho wilderness full of gorgeous views as well as wildlife, from tiny birds and massive moose to predators like bears, wolves and elusive wolverines.

Whether you’re headed to the Sawtooths to camp, hike, backpack or just take in the scenery, there are ways to improve your chances of ...Read more

Eighty-eight years of age and working as hard as ever, Chuck Delaney is eagerly anticipating the opening of Game Fair on Friday for a six-day run over two long weekends, Aug. 12-14 and 19-21.

In showbiz for more than six decades, Chuck is the owner and promoter of Game Fair, an outdoor festival now in its 41st year on the grounds of his ...Read more

CHICAGO — Officials pulled an invasive silver carp from the waters of Lake Calumet on the city’s Far South Side Thursday.

Anglers began looking for it after someone spotted the invasive species, part of the Asian carp family, in Lake Calumet earlier in the week, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources said in a statement.

The silver ...Read more

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News that Joe Kruchowski had sold his bait shop and was moving to Area 51 didn't take me by surprise, though I was unnerved when I learned he wouldn't be traveling in his '76 AMC Pacer.

Instead, he will trek more conventionally, in a motor home, behind which, on a trailer, will follow his Nissan Juke NISMO RS, a ...Read more

A dog is recovering from injuries after fighting a black bear on a trail near Ketchum, the Idaho Department of Fish and Game said in a news release last week. It’s the latest in a series of black bear conflicts in the Wood River Valley and across Idaho.

Fish and Game officials said a woman was walking her dog near her home in the East Fork ...Read more

During the pandemic, as the world isolated from COVID-19, Tatiana and Mario Cruz got hooked on kayak fishing.

When they lost their jobs — Mario as a chauffer and Tatiana as an event organizer — the Puerto Rican couple turned their hobby into a mission.

“We finally had the time to do what we liked most, which was kayak fishing,” said ...Read more

Inclusion can be good and necessary. But sometimes people like to spend time with people like themselves.

Such is the reasoning behind a burgeoning effort by the Twin Cities group Wilderness Inquiry (WI) to sponsor what it calls affinity trips into the outdoors — meaning, in today's example, a recent excursion into the boundary waters by a ...Read more

Hungry for lobster? You can soon catch your own.

The two-day lobster miniseason in Florida runs Wednesday and Thursday, and thousands of people will visit the Keys and other spots in the state for a chance to bag their legal limit of Florida spiny lobster.

The crustacean’s tail meat is not only sought after in South Florida, but across the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Whoever drove the car or truck that last week killed the mountain lion P-89 on the 101 Freeway in Woodland Hills — about 60 years ago, that driver would have been in line for a reward, a government atta-boy bounty of as much as $75 (more than $730 today).

California was not fussy about how you killed a mountain lion, just so ...Read more

They attended the same suburban Twin Cities grade school, middle school and high school, and in recent years have been students together at Minnesota State Mankato — where their goal is to turn that school into a national bass-fishing powerhouse.

Nathan Thompson and Brian Linder, both 22, have shared a passion for fishing throughout their ...Read more

A state wildlife officer and a contracted snake trapper found two large female Burmese pythons, lots of hatched and unhatched eggs and and a considerable number of the baby invasive reptiles within Big Cypress National Preserve in Collier County earlier this month.

One of the snakes was 17.6 feet long, about a foot shy of the record-breaker ...Read more

Former Boise State University football star Leighton Vander Esch is facing criticism online after posting a video of himself feeding a wild black bear while on a recent fishing trip in Idaho.

Vander Esch, who grew up in Riggins and is in his fifth year as a linebacker for the Dallas Cowboys, posted the video on Instagram last week as part of a ...Read more

Challenging as it is to prove, it's likely that Minnesotans travel farther and more frequently to fish than do anglers from any other state.

Five of these adventuresome Minnesotans are profiled here. With fishing rods in hand, they have either just come back from a far-flung fishing trip or are on distant waters as you read this.

Terry Arnesen...Read more

LIGONIER, Pa. — Spring is for trout. Cold, tinted snowmelt flowing past shoreline skim ice. Circular ripples spreading outward from a perfect cast. A subsurface flash, a tug on the line and the thrill of guiding a crafty trout to the streambank or a waiting net.

For many Western Pennsylvanians, lazy summer days are for bass lying under the ...Read more