Orlan Love

You don’t have to go far to find a great place to spend your time in the outdoors

Wildside column: A new “deadly dangle“ technique was discovered during a recent outing when the traditional one wasn’t working.

Butterflies have been hard to find this summer and Texas is the key to survival.

Wildside column: A lack of shade didn’t bother the fish on this day — and that was OK.

Wildside column: Fred Love, the author’s son, landed a 5-pound smallmouth bass that had “a lot of power.”

Department of Natural Resources fisheries management biologist Mark Flammang describes the fast-growing, hard-fighting hybrid striped bass that are thrilling anglers and tearing up their tackle at Rathbun Lake and several other Iowa reservoirs as “the common man’s trophy fish.”

Wildside column: From butterflies to bass, the Maquoketa River is coming back.

Wildside column: Projects include ponds, wetlands, oxbow restorations, grass waterways, on-road detention basins, a grade stabilization and a water and sediment control basin

Wildside column: A wonderful fishing week was spent with an unusual companion, an immature loon making a stop in Eastern Iowa

Wildside column: Author finds lots of treats after ‘unkillable’ elm dies and harvets 290 morels

Wildside column: The scenery was beautiful on a recent turkey hunt, but there was little else to talk about at the end

There’s always something around when you head out or a “solo” fishing trip

First of 4 seasons runs April 11-14 and there are plenty of bird to harvest this year

Recent winter blast doesn’t diminish that spring is coming

Traveling light is important, but these are items fishermen cannot go without when searching for fish