For the Love of the Outdoors

  Safe, Supervised, Successful: The Case for 12- and 13-Year-Old Deer Hunters in Erie County By Forrest Fisher In recent years, youth firearms hunting in New York has become a point of debate often framed through broader national conversations...

In state capitols across the country, lawmakers have taken an unusual step to safeguard a longstanding American tradition: they’ve written the right to hunt, fish, and trap directly into their constitutions. What was once simply assumed as part of...

The 2026 NY Musky Expo, held January 31–February 1 at the Chautauqua Harbor Hotel in Celoron, wasn’t just another winter fishing show. Sure, it had wall-to-wall musky baits, boats, electronics, nets, Lakewood tackle boxes, Simms rain gear, and...

Just like former Bills Coach Sean McDermott, my dad taught me that life and learning to do things right is a process. You don’t master it all at once; you learn it knot by knot, campfire by campfire, and mistake by mistake. That’s how many of us...

The Life of my Incredible Friend, Russ Johnson Russ was born in Buffalo during the Great Depression, a time that forged a generation marked by ingenuity, patience, and self-reliance. As Buffalo grew between World War I and World War II, Russ grew...

Ardent musky angler Carl Schenk was fishing on his birthday Wednesday with his buddy Tom Reinhardt at the Buffalo Small Boat Harbor. When Schenk arrived at the harbor, he noted there was no one out there, but there was ice, and it looked solid...