GUNTERSVILLE — Alabama is known for fast cars and a NASCAR superspeedway, but the southern state has also developed a name for fast boats on a liquid track. Lake Guntersville’s extreme summer event where the fastest boats today race on an oval course at speeds of 200 mph is set to return in June and a […]

Down a winding, tree-lined road on the outskirts of Clanton, Ala., is a destination that attracts a select group of individuals and their canine companions. It’s the Coonhound Cabin, which sits on 85 acres and provided the perfect site for last weekend’s AKC (American Kennel Club) Southern Heritage Hunt and Show for coonhounds. Danielle Kunz […]

To celebrate National Fishing and Boating Week, the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources has announced June 10 to be “free fishing day” throughout the state. For that day, a license is not required to fish in the majority of the state’s public waters, the department said. “This is the perfect opportunity for non-anglers […]

SEATTLE — The REI Cooperative Action Fund has granted Alabama’s Singing River Trail $100,000 as part of a $4 million investment in 40 nonprofit organizations. “This new investment is our largest to date, demonstrating the power of our community when we come together to make a positive impact,” said Kristen Ragain, REI Cooperative Action Fund managing […]

After the 2023 spring turkey season, Adam Arnold considers his transition from non-hunter to member of the hunting community complete. Although 33-year-old Arnold has held a fishing license for many years and has enjoyed using the Cahaba Wildlife Management Area Public Shooting Range, he had never hunted until spring of 2018, when he participated in […]

Johnny Greene has been a captain on charter boats in the Gulf of Mexico for the past 33 years and has landed his share of the Gulf’s bounty. But recently something happened on his boat, the “Intimidator,” that had never happened before. Greene and crew unloaded a 600-pound-plus bluefin tuna at the Orange Beach Marina […]

Lying on a luxury queen-sized bed within a tent, one thought comes to my mind: ‘Can I get those cicadas to sing a show tune?’ Such thoughts also brought interior laughter at my odd request for nature’s top 40 singers. It made me realize I had left behind deadlines, bills, and problems as I listened […]

  Oak Mountain State Park is the largest state park in Alabama and offers over 11,000 acres. Oak Mountain is home to “more than 100 miles of trails, an 18-hole golf course and driving range, horseback riding facilities, fishing lakes, boat rentals, picnic and beach areas and majestic Peavine Falls.” The park is also unique […]

One of the motivational factors for new hunters discovered by the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources’ (ADCNR) Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries (WFF) Division is a quest for organic protein. Individuals who participate in WFF’s Adult Mentored Hunting Program hunts often rank providing meals prepared with wild game for them and their families high […]

Starting Monday, Alabama will be closing its “inside” waters through June 1, the Marine Resources Division of the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources announced. The temporary closure is to allow commercial and recreational shrimp harvesting without outside interference. Inside waters are defined as all waters north of a line from the Florida-Alabama line […]

Oak Mountain State Park unveiled its newest multi-use trail, as officials from Alabama State Parks joined local officials for a ribbon-cutting ceremony.   The new trail – known as the Lunker Lake Trail – circles the lake and provides breathtaking views of the water as it meanders along the shoreline and through the forest. The […]

It’s a rodeo. Just not a typical one. The 29th annual Fishing Rodeo, hosted by the Auburn Parks and Recreation Department, has opened registration. “There’s a lot of kids that, maybe they don’t have access to fishing,” said Public Relations Specialist Ann Bergman. “Maybe they don’t have a fishing rod or reel, so this is […]

Whether it was regulation changes or better environmental conditions, the apparent rebound in the flounder population has everyone involved with the fishery along the Alabama Gulf Coast encouraged. Scott Bannon, director of the Marine Resources Division (MRD) of the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (ADCNR), said the division adopted stricter limits several years […]

The Alabama Conservation Advisory Board will hold its second scheduled meeting of the year next month in Huntsville.  The meeting is 9 a.m. May 20 at the Randolph School Thurber Arts Center, 4915 Garth Road. Registration to address the board will be from 8-8:30 a.m. Attendees with printed information they wish to share with CAB […]

What do you do if you break a bone in your elbow three weeks before the 20th anniversary National Archery in Schools Program’s (NASP) Alabama State Championship? If you’re Jake Cash of Ashville High, you adapt and overcome. Chris Cash, Jake’s father, said his son tripped on a cable on the high school band’s trailer and […]

The Alabama Marine Resources Division of the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources is accepting applications for disaster assistance to those affected by freshwater intrusion into areas where heavy marine fishing occurs. The intrusion has cost the Alabama fishing industry and related businesses within the state millions of dollars, the agency said. This new […]

What do you do when you need to plant 3,500 oak tree saplings in a hurry? For Alabama State Parks, the solution was to invite the community surrounding Roland Cooper State Park near Camden to lend a hand, actually many hands. As part of an agreement with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, State Parks […]

Veteran Tennessee River guide Jimmy Mason had been on a roll recently until a phenomenon known only to a specialty segment of the media and their numerous guides struck. That phenomenon is known as the outdoor writer’s curse. Mason guides mainly on Pickwick and Wilson lakes in northwest Alabama, and his clients had landed eight […]

WVNN and Yellowhammer News’ Yaffee believes the 2024 fight will be contentious and full of half-truths. Dale Jackson is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts a talk show from 5-9 a.m. weekdays on WVNN and on Talk 99.5 from 10 a.m. to noon.

The largest youth archery competition in Alabama, the National Archery in the Schools Program (NASP) Alabama State Championship, will be held April 6-7, 2023, at the Multiplex at Cramton Bowl located at 220 Hall St. in Montgomery, Alabama.  This year’s event will feature nearly 2,000 student archers in Grades 4-12 from schools across the state […]

As Alabama’s 2023 turkey season begins, the Alabama Black Belt Adventures Association (ALBBAA) reminds all hunters to enter the 11th annual Big Gobbler Photo Contest. The ALBBAA’s annual Big Gobbler Photo Contest is designed to showcase Alabama’s Black Belt, which is widely regarded as one of America’s best areas for wild turkey hunting, while also […]

Famous author Stephen King once wrote that “Sooner or later, everything old is new again,” which applies to recent work in Alabama’s coastal waters. Obsolete structures once used for shoreline protection in Mobile Bay are being used to create new habitat for oysters, crustaceans and the bountiful inshore fish species that inhabit Alabama’s biodiverse estuaries […]

Chris Blankenship, commissioner of the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (ADCNR), provided good news at the Alabama Conservation Advisory Board meeting last weekend in Montgomery. Blankenship started his assessment of the ADCNR’s four Divisions – Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries (WFF), Marine Resources (MRD), State Parks and State Lands – with news from State […]

For those who love sea turtles, and who doesn’t, training to be a volunteer for the Share the Beach initiative is coming up this month. The training session for Dauphin Island is set for 6 p.m. March 21 at the Shelby Auditorium at Dauphin Island Sea Lab. The training meeting at Gulf Shores is scheduled […]