Oak Duke

Outdoors columnist Oak Duke has been hunting for 50 years, and has just about always been able to put a tag on a bird’s leg. This year was different.

With new technology and corresponding research, we are learning more about the causes of fawn mortality, the timing of the rut and fawn drop.

Outdoors columnist Oak Duke offers six maxims that will help you reel in a fish this summer.

Summer water temperatures often become dangerously high for trout, but it's the perfect time to switch our trout rods for bass gear.

From gear to tactics, there's an ocean of difference between fishing for trout and bass, writes outdoors columnist Oak Duke.

There is nothing finer, nothing more delectable and mouthwatering, than this venison, writes Outdoors columnist Oak Duke.

Tiny poults from very late hatches have a more difficult time dealing with an early, snowy winter than their older cousins, among other challenges.

If their local range is lacking in a necessary level of minerals, bucks face a nearly impossible task of surviving a tough winter.

Contrary to logic and our feelings as deer hunters, sometimes it's best not to hunt out of a favored stand. Not because the hunting property switched hands.

Oak Duke offers tactical guidelines that have worked well for filling deer tags on small properties between two types of posted-up properties.