Tampa Bay Blast For Fall And Winter Fishing
Bob McNally The water was rippled, sun in my face, and it was a long cast into a stiff Gulf of Mexico wind. But a school of shallow-water cobia has…
Bob McNally The water was rippled, sun in my face, and it was a long cast into a stiff Gulf of Mexico wind. But a school of shallow-water cobia has…
Bob Jensen As the snow and ice go away across the Midwest, and as we get closer to open water fishing, lots of anglers start to do an inventory of…
Craig Boddington For some of us, there’s still a wait until whitetail season begins. At my place in Kansas, though I’m still waiting, I’ve spent the last couple of weeks…
Steve Felgenhauer I needed some help, after last season’s performance in the duck blind. As daylight began showing, so did the ducks; at first highballs, flying clear of our blind…
Charly Culbertson It was the Kelly boys, Danny and Kevin, who introduced me to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka when he was with the miners’ union. The Kelly family owns and…
David Hart It’s fall and for many bass anglers that means one thing: School’s in. Bass schools, that is. This time of year, roaming packs of largemouths, spots and even…
Brian “Bro” Brosdahl If there’s one fishing destination you’d never expect to find a Northern Minnesota, bluegill-bumpkin like me soaking marabou feathers and getting his jollies jigging for rainbow trout—it’d…
Doug Howlett Few technological advances in recent years have changed the way we scout and prepare for deer season like the trail camera has. First made of crude (by today’s…
Ken Barrett Autumn not only turns leaves to beautiful reds, yellows and oranges, it also brightens and accentuates the colors of two of our favorite trout species: brown and brook…
Mike Hanback We bloggers and outdoor TV hosts have turned whitetail hunting into an endless autumn. When one season closes in January, we tell you to get back out there…
Steve Ryan by Steve Ryan, In-Fisherman The scene may be different, but presentation principles play out just the same as in wilderness settings. Welcome to the urban jungle, constructed of concrete,…
Tracy Breen As technology advances, treestand technology also advances. Not long ago, the average treestand weighed 30 pounds or more and was difficult to lug around in the woods. Today,…
Bob Barteck Thousands of Sandhill Cranes serenaded us as they climbed in altitude over our heads. My 12-year-old son, Andrew, and I quietly settled into our blind. The morning air…
Bob McNally Few places in America offer as good or as varied freshwater fishing as that found near the city of Buffalo, New York, just a short cast from famed…
Steve Felgenhauer The three boxes of shells sitting on the counter reduced the $100 bill to barely enough to buy me a value meal at McDonalds. “Can this stuff be…
Brad Cummings, IAFF Local 3234 Thomas Jefferson once said, “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” Most people wouldn’t consider themselves lucky to…
Craig Boddington When I was new shooter in the 1960s, we were in a serious magnum craze, when all the new cartridges bore a “magnum” suffix and we believed velocity…
Wade Bourne, Vicious Pro Staff Most fishing pressure is focused on big lakes that gain the lion’s share of publicity in fishing reports, tournament results, etc. In contrast, smaller, less…
Travis Sadler My father Claude Sadler, Director of Southern and Central LECET of the Laborers Union, walked into the living room in 2007 holding the right side of a shed…
Doug Howlett The small dock jutting into the neighborhood lake behind my mother’s house has produced some fun fishing over the years and accounted for each of my kids’ first…
Mark Kayser You’ve certainly heard the old saying “you can drive a whitetail anywhere it wants to go.” There’s a lot of truth to that statement, but when whitetails aren’t…
Bob Jensen The summer months are a good time of the year for fish in at least one way: There’s a lot of food in the water for them to…