Summer stream trout fishing in Minnesota’s driftless region is one way to pass the time when you are waiting on outboard motor parts to ship to your door. Being boatless for a few weeks has been ...

A new study finds trout fishing has a $952 million a year impact in the Driftless Area of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa, supporting thousands of jobs and boosting local economies in places like ...

It is spring, even if the weather has been exceedingly wintry this month. Native Minnesotans can be proud and even enjoy winter, choosing to embrace the cold and snow and recreate in all of it by ...

VIOLA - Bob Wagner of Viola and I had a date last Saturday. Sometime toward mid-day we'd get together at his farm house in northwestern Richland County and fish on an area stream or two. We were sure ...

ELBA — If Duke Welter were to put up billboards along highways leading into the Midwest's Driftless Region, he would tout its beauty, its opportunities to hunt, fish, canoe, hike and explore. And he ...

"Nick’s heart tightened as the trout moved. He felt all the old feeling." — Ernest Hemingway, Big Two Hearted River Part I The Driftless Area of Iowa is located in the northeastern part of the state, ...

New findings about how two trout species are faring in a warmer, wetter world could give Wisconsin scientists clues about how to help the fish thrive in the future — and continue to power a fishing ...

Early October is the time to fish the Driftless Region of Wisconsin. Submitted photo If I were in charge, every month would be October except for April. There is not enough time in October to scratch ...

Bill Plantan left a cryptic message for me a few weeks ago, asking me to call him because he had some really huge news he wanted to share, news he knew I would really want to hear. Of course, I called ...