We head to summer conditions on the rivers, though there is enough water in most of them to remember it is still spring for this rivers section of the Midwest Fishing Report.

Mulling things on my morning ramble

with Storm, the family's mixed Lab.

It only seems apt to run the Stray Cast here.

Hints of shoreline perch, spawning fish all around and the opening of muskie season in northern Wisconsin lead this lakes section of the Midwest Fishing Report heading into the holiday weekend.

The cold wet spring

put a downer on Illinois' spring turkey season.

Jim Reed talks paddling in general and about his decades of experiences in providing paddling opportunities for thousands along the mighty Kankakee River this afternoon on Outside.

Mulling things on my morning ramble with Storm, the family's mixed Lab.