The appeal of the 75-mile-long Great Salt Lake is almost as powerful for waterfowl hunters as it is for birds. The lake has good public access, habitat that enables a wide variety of hunting styles, ...

Florida's first split-phase general duck hunting season ends today at sunset, with the next and final phase running Dec. 12-Jan. 31. The last phase usually is best, with Northern ducks pouring into ...

GREEN BAY - There's a saying in the outdoors world that goes like this: "If I were king, I'd make October 90 days long." I don't know whom to credit it to. But I'm a firm believer in the sentiment. It ...

When other hunters talk to me about how hard some big game animals are to kill, the first thing that pops to my mind is that they have probably never tried to shoot a bufflehead flying mere inches off ...

ON BIG RICE LAKE, NEAR VIRGINIA -- Morning is just breaking over Big Rice Lake, and John Backman is right where he loves to be. He's semi-reclined in his layout boat, surrounded by more than 2,000 ...

Open water layout boat duck hunting in Minnesota's Lake of the Woods Discover unique open water layout boat duck hunting in Minnesota's Lake of the Woods with Prairie Sportsman host Bret Amundson.

That the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) could have been joking when it recently issued possible changes to state duck hunting regulations seemed at first glance — and second and third glances — ...

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OCONTO – At 0-dark-thirty it's not always clear how all the parts of an outing will fit together. But it's important to have faith. Dawn was an orange hint on the horizon as Joe Peikert, Boyd Thiel ...