MIDWEST It may not be summer yet, but it is big fish time in the Midwest. From walleyes in Lake Erie to bass in Oklahoma's McGee Creek Reservoir, early spring is the time to bundle up and shoot for a trophy catch.

WEST The oak hills of California are alive with the sound of turkeys. So are the pine forest edges of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, and that's unusual. Lewis and Clark never heard them. Nez Perce Chief Joseph and his people wouldn't have known a turkey gobble from an elephant trumpet. Not even the forty-niners panning gold in California laid ears on a wild turkey. But we can.

NORTHEAST Want a chance for an affordable hunt for the largest deer in the world? Think about applying for a moose permit in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. All three states let you do a self-guided hunt, and all offer an exceptional chance for success. But in order to hunt this fall, you'll have to act soon.

SOUTH Even after lifetimes of fishing southern waters, many Rebs have trouble recognizing that brook, rainbow, brown, cutthroat, and lake trout are viable targets in numerous southeastern freshwater streams, rivers, and lakes.