
Cast from the Past
I like vintage fishing gear. There’s just something fascinating about old rods and reels and the unique history they possess. Behind every bent eyelet or scratched

I like vintage fishing gear. There’s just something fascinating about old rods and reels and the unique history they possess. Behind every bent eyelet or scratched

Wipers grow rapidly and exhibit greater strength and vitality than either parent species – traits fishery biologists call “hybrid vigor.”

Despite their size, yellow perch have a following of devotees in Colorado, especially among ice fishers, where the devotion can approach the cult level.

Story by Gary Berlin Formal hunter education training has existed since 1949 when New York became the first state to require hunters to complete hunter
Spring is right around the corner — time to hang up your camo clothing and forget about hunting until next fall, right? Wrong. For Colorado big-game hunters, there
Renowned elk hunter David Petersen describes, in his book “A Man Made of Elk,” a bugling bull as “an otherworldly music … like a calamitous

Trail cameras are amazing devices. As hunters, they provide us with an invaluable scouting tool that allows us to track the exact time and location that game animals pass through a specific area.

When it comes to outdoors expertise, no one understands Colorado’s fishery and wildlife resources better than Colorado Parks and Wildlife’s diverse staff of wildlife managers, park rangers and biologists.

In this special, multipart series of CPW field Journal, Chris Johnson, GIS analyst for CPW, shares his experiences and thoughts as a first-time hunter.