Anglers are reeling with joy as massive yellowtails showed up just a few miles off the Orange County coast recently, a rare sight close to shore.

Captain Steve Locken, of RockenReel Sportfishing, said large groups of 40-pound yellowtail were seen last Monday and Tuesday three miles in front of the Dana Point Harbor in water just 220 feet deep. ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Virtually every Saturday during the fall, Rick Baturin watches dogs rush onto his land from nearby hunting grounds in Colleton County.

The canines leave areas where sportsmen are using them to chase deer and enter his property, an annoyance with potentially dangerous implications that has left Baturin frustrated after years ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — That stink in St. Paul’s Como Park neighborhood last weekend? It wasn’t the blooming corpse flower in the conservatory.

About 10,000 crappies and bluegill sunfish died in Como Lake last week.

The die-off was the result of low oxygen in the water, according to the Capitol Region Watershed District, which oversees water ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — To say the plan to expand the state’s wild elk herd to northeast Minnesota from the northwest where the animals currently reside is a multimillion-dollar debacle might not be entirely fair.

But it’s accurate.

After a year’s delay, the first elk from the northwest were supposed to be transported to the northeast this ...Read more

DENVER — When he was young, Javier Refuerzo and his little brother used to fish through holes in the floor of City Park’s bandshell gazebo. And when his wriggling carp were too large to pull through the 3 to 4-inch openings, he’d cut them loose.

“There were a few kids that were there most weekends,” said the 42-year-old Denverite, who...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — How exactly it happened, Alan Johnston’s death, no one knows. But in the end, on May 13, Johnston’s Golden Retriever, JJ, was in Johnston’s boat alone, and his master was in Lake of the Woods.

An independent sort whose family in the 1800s was among the first white settlers in Warroad, Minn., Johnston, 78, had been a ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Ron Schara was sitting with his back to a tree when he realized he’d shot enough turkeys in his lifetime.

Known best for his role as a host on Minnesota Bound, a television series he started in 1995 to highlight the outdoors and now airs on KSTP, Schara said he watched a small flock of turkeys pass by as he sat last year at ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota anglers say they are catching and keeping more fish than previously believed. A boatload more.

A new federal study published this month in the peer-reviewed journal Fisheries found that Minnesotans are bringing home an estimated 80 million pounds of freshwater fish annually. That’s more than twice the state’s ...Read more