More from Dac Collins (Page 2)

Up-close shots of a limited-edition Morgan Wallen album being sold at target.
Fishing

Sportsmen Know the Fishing IDs Sold with Morgan Wallen’s New Album Aren’t Real Licenses. But Some of His Fans Don’t

By Dac Collins

Two Ohio game wardens stand next to two sets of antlers seized during a poaching investigation.
Conservation

The Two Game Wardens Who Cracked the CJ Alexander Poaching Case Finally Get to Tell Their Side of the Story

By Dac Collins

A buck stands in the trees
Big Game Hunting

Alabama Is Auctioning Off 5-Year Hunting Leases on Some of Its Public Land

By Dac Collins

A trail cam picture of a buck in a field.
Big Game Hunting

A Hunting Personality Is Suing a Game Warden, Claiming Bogus Bait Charges Ruined His Reputation

By Dac Collins

A boot company is selling gator hunts
Hunting

This Texas Boot Company Is Charging $5K for Cowboy Boots. The Fee Includes a Gator Hunt

By Dac Collins

A kayak angler moves across a large lake.
Fishing

Kayaker Dies During California Fishing Tournament, Cause of Death Under Investigation

By Dac Collins

Montana national guardsmen land a helicopter.
Big Game Hunting

Montana National Guard Under Investigation After Allegedly Using a Helicopter to Steal Shed Antlers

By Dac Collins

A buck lays down on a Wisconsin deer farm.
Conservation

Minnesota Banned New Deer Farms in Order to Slow CWD. Now Farmers Are Suing

By Dac Collins

Thousands of salmon stacked up in a creek in Alaska.
Fishing

Viral Video of Epic Salmon Run Is a Glimpse of What the Old Timers Still Talk About

By Dac Collins

A grizzly bear crosses the road
Conservation

Proposal to Keep Grizzlies on the Endangered Species List Is ‘Ludicrous,’ Say Western Lawmakers

By Dac Collins

A commercial fisherman stands next to a huge bull shark.
Fishing

Fisherman Catches a Jaw-Dropping Bull Shark That Would Have Obliterated the State Record

By Dac Collins

An angler in Oregon holds up a big spotted bass.
Bass Fishing

This State-Record Bass Won’t Make the Books Because Oregon Doesn’t Recognize It as a Game Fish

By Dac Collins

A state-record longear sunfish caught in Mississippi.
Fishing

Lure Maker with Several State Records to His Credit Catches Two Record Sunfish on Back-to-Back Days

By Dac Collins

A Michigan angler with a fat smallmouth bass.
Bass Fishing

‘Bowling Ball’ Smallmouth Caught in Michigan Was Busting at the Seams

By Dac Collins

Two strutting toms next to a hen turkey.
Hunting

If Turkey Populations Are Struggling, Why Do We Still Shoot Hens in the Fall?

By Dac Collins

A UK angler holds up a fat common carp.
Carp Fishing

Giant Carp Caught in European Pay Lake Could Break the Unofficial World Record … Again?

By Dac Collins

Two hunters walk into the foothills.
Conservation

Too Much Public Land Is ‘Landlocked’ by Private Property. This New Program Is Helping Hunters and Anglers Access It

By Dac Collins

A pronghorn antelope, crawls under a barbed wire fence.
Conservation

Coloradans Just Tore Down a Bunch of Barbed Wire Fencing to Help Wild Game

By Dac Collins

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Fishing

The Best Fly Reels of 2025, Tested and Reviewed

By Dac Collins

A turkey hunter with a banded gobbler she killed in Oklahoma.
Hunting

‘Never in a Million Years.’ Turkey Hunter Tags Banded Gobbler in Oklahoma

By Dac Collins

Two anglers in a bass boat look toward an oncoming storm.
Natural Disaster Survival

We Fished Through a Tornado Until It Flipped My Boat. I Only Survived by the Grace of God

Brian Johnson, as told to Dac Collins

An angler holds up a trophy bass caught in Chicago.
Bass Fishing

‘I Wasn’t Seeking Glory.’ Smallmouth Bass Caught in Chicago Was Just an Ounce Shy of the State Record

By Dac Collins

A fishing guide holds up a pending state-record bighead carp.
Carp Fishing

This Fishing Guide Probably Just Broke His Own State Record with a Massive Bighead Carp

By Dac Collins

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Hunting

Turkey Vision: Here’s What Hunters Should Know About How Wild Turkeys See

By Dac Collins

Two Ohio game wardens with the award they received from the Pope and Young Club in April.
Conservation

Ohio Game Wardens Who Busted CJ Alexander Honored with Pope and Young Award

By Dac Collins

Spearfishing for walleye on the great lakes
Fishing

Shooting Walleyes in the Great Lakes Is Growing Because of This Spearfisherman

By Dac Collins

A gray wolf released in Colorado
Conservation

Coloradans Who Oppose Wolf Reintroduction Can’t Agree on How to Try Ending It

By Dac Collins

An american alligator basks in the sun.
Animal Attacks

Bit By a Gator? It’s Your Own Dang Fault, Scientists Say

By Dac Collins

A tournament bass angler holds up a fish; a man sits for a photo.
Bass Fishing

3 Killed, 3 Injured in Boat Wreck at Major League Fishing Tournament

By Dac Collins

A skull on public land.
Conservation

The BLM Public Lands Rule Has Been ‘Marked for Death’

By Dac Collins

A hiker looks over a lush forest in Oregon.
Conservation

Most Americans Want More Public Land, Not Less, Poll Shows

By Dac Collins

a bobcat stares into a trail camera lens
Conservation

Watch a Bobcat Snatch a Turkey Out of Midair in This Incredible Trail Cam Video

By Dac Collins

A grizzly bear in Glacier national park looks up in a field of wildflowers.
Animal Attacks

A Shed Hunter Shot and Killed a Charging Grizzly Bear in Montana

By Dac Collins

An angler with a 153-pound alligator gar.
Fishing

This Pending World-Record Gar Is the Heaviest Freshwater Fish Ever Caught on 2-Pound Test

By Dac Collins

A home on private land in Pennsylvania.
Conservation

Game Wardens Can Surveil Private Land with Trail Cams. But That’s Now Being Challenged in Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court

By Dac Collins

A flock of mallards and a lone pintail on a river in winter.
Hunting

Kansas Gov. Vetoes Bill to Limit Nonresident Waterfowlers to Hunting Just 3 Days a Week

By Dac Collins

Kathleen Sgamma testifies in a public hearing.
Conservation

Oil-Industry Pick to Lead the BLM Withdraws Amid Revelations She Once Criticized the President

By Dac Collins

A shoulder mount on display at an outdoor show in Wisconsin.
Big Game Hunting

This 49-Point Buck Was Promoted as a New State Record. Critics Say It Was Pen Raised

By Dac Collins

Breeder bucks stand inside a pen in Texas.
Conservation

This Bill Would Give Deer Breeders a Free Pass to Ignore Alabama’s CWD Laws

By Dac Collins

A great white shark surfaces.
Fishing

Massachusetts Just Banned Most Shark Fishing from Land, Blaming Anglers Who Want ‘That Viral Video’ with a Great White

By Dac Collins

A charter captain yells at another angler on the water.
Fishing

‘You Wanna F-ing Go?!’ Watch Raging Charter Captain Board Kid’s Boat, Threaten to Fight Him

By Dac Collins

A Mexican wolf stands in tall grass.
Conservation

‘The Situation Is Not Tolerable.’ New Mexico County Declares State of Emergency Over Mexican Wolves Killing Livestock, Pets

By Dac Collins

Wild horse herd in Wyoming.
Conservation

Feds Planning to Gather Whole Herds of Free-Roaming Horses in Checkerboard Region of Wyoming

By Dac Collins

Coolers, buckets, and bags full of dead fish seized from poachers.
Conservation

Oregon’s 7-Hour Fishing Season Ends with 2,500 Pounds of Illegally-Caught Smelt Seized by Police

By Dac Collins

A bull elk grazes in a field.
Big Game Hunting

Deer and Elk Hunters in Washington State Can No Longer Hunt Over Bait

By Dac Collins

A USFWS employee runs an airboat across Tule Lake.
Conservation

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to Rehire Fired Employees with Backpay

By Dac Collins

A grey wolf moves across a winter landscape.
Conservation

Wolves Ranged into 14 Colorado Counties Even as Petition to Halt Reintroduction Advances

By Dac Collins

A velvet mule deer rack and other antlers seized by Utah wildlife officials.
Conservation

Poached Bucks Up for Auction in Utah, Along with Hundreds More Skulls and Hides

By Dac Collins

A bush plane on snow; a wrecked plane in a frozen lake.
Survival

Alaska Bush Pilot Community Rallies to Find, Rescue Family Whose Plane Crash-Landed on Frozen Lake

By Dac Collins

A still image showing a drone operator using a drone to help rescue a deer.
Conservation

Watch Police Use a Drone to Rescue a Doe and Two Fawns from an Icy Lake

By Dac Collins

Two workers look over an open-pit mine.
Conservation

New Executive Order Aims to Make Mining the Primary Use of Public Lands at ‘As Many Sites As Possible’

By Dac Collins

Football star Travis Hunter holds up a bass.
Bass Fishing

This Heisman Trophy Winner Would Rather Be Bass Fishing

By Dac Collins

A tract of public land in the Pahrump Valley in Nevada.
Conservation

Plan to Sell Off ‘Underutilized’ Federal Land for Affordable Housing Is Ineffective and Inefficient, Experts Say

By Dac Collins

A coyote and a badger hunt together
Hunting

Fascinating Trail Cam Videos Show Coyotes and Badgers Hunting Prairie Dogs Together

By Dac Collins

A Texas lawmaker poses with a whitetail deer.
Conservation

Texas Lawmaker Who Breeds Deer Wants to Abolish the State Wildlife Agency That Regulates Deer Breeders

By Dac Collins

A smallmouth bass with a sucker lodged in its throat.
Conservation

A New Plan to Flush Smallies Out of the Grand Canyon Seems to Be Working. Some Western Lawmakers Want to Squash It

By Dac Collins

A photo collage of the new pending world-record bull
Big Game Hunting

The Real Story Behind the Casey Brooks Bull, the Pending World Record Elk

By Natalie Krebs, By Dac Collins

Researchers unearth a mammoth tusk in West Texas.
Climate & Environment

‘I Couldn’t Believe It.’ Deer Hunter Finds Prehistoric Mammoth Tusk on West Texas Ranch

By Dac Collins

A kayak angler's perspective of rescuing dogs from an icy river.
Fishing

Watch a Kayak Fisherman Save Two Dogs from Drowning in an Icy River

By Dac Collins

A hunter glasses for game from atop a snowy ridge.
Conservation

Utah Wants to Prevent Anti-Hunter Takeover by Requiring All Wildlife Board Members to Have a Hunting License

By Dac Collins

A kayak angler casts out into a lake.
Fishing Gear

‘No One’s Immune.’ Tariffs Set to Wallop the U.S. Fishing Gear Industry

By Dac Collins

A BLM firefighter works a line.
Conservation

Federal Judge Rules Firing Public-Land Workers Was Illegal, Agrees It ‘Will Inflict Immediate, Foreseeable Harm’ to Habitat and Wildlife

By Dac Collins

A Massachusetts teenager holds up a state-record bass.
Fishing

‘That Ain’t No Crappie.’ Watch This 13-Year-Old Catch a State-Record Largemouth Bass Through the Ice

By Dac Collins

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Hunting

What Do Wild Turkeys Eat?

By Dac Collins