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…
Ted Pilgrim By Ted Pilgrim, as seen on the Fishing Wire When muskies launch into radical feeding rampages, there’s simply nothing else like it in freshwater fishing. Jaws snap, hooks set,…
David Draper It was a hunt that wasn’t supposed to happen, or not happen like this anyway. My friend Bill and I were supposed to be chasing bull elk from…
M. D. Johnson For the outdoorsman, there are few achievements as satisfying as accomplishing a goal, be it catching a limit of channel ‘cats or tagging a wary longbearded gobbler,…
Babe Winkelman Does Mother Nature provide signs that help us predict when and where the fish will be biting? Is it possible to look at the sky, sniff the air…
Craig Boddington Okay, the word is actually “reticule.” You won’t get the word “reticle” to come up on your spell-check. But over the years, in our little world, we’ve shortened…
Tracy Breen Scouting cameras have changed the way many people hunt, myself included. Just a few years ago I was bowhunting black bears in Quebec, and the hunt wasn’t going…
Fly Fisherman Provided by Fly Fisherman Smallmouth and largemouth bass might be America’s most popular gamefish— and for good reason. These hardy, stocky predators smash lures (and flies) hard and thrive…
Beau Beasley On a recent flight home from Portland, Oregon, where I was visiting relatives, to Washington D.C., I sat next to a man who was traveling on business. One…
Bob Neill It all started in the late summer of 2007 when my 12-year-old son, Michael, asked if he could go hunting with me. I have been an avid outdoorsman…
Stephen D. Carpenteri, Game & Fish It’s a good bet that you can step outdoors anywhere in the state and before long you hear the tell-tale cawing of a distant…
Steve Felgenhauer Try this exercise with your favorite shotgun. First, ensure the shotgun is unloaded, and then close your eyes and shoulder the shotgun. Now open your eyes. Are you…
David Hart When is a topwater not a topwater? When it’s, well, not really a topwater. That doesn’t make much sense, of course, but consider this: Most bass lures fall…
Craig Boddington My 15-year-old cheerleader daughter, Caroline, has been going to the range with me for several years, and she did her hunter safety course quite a while back. But…
Bob Jensen Crappies are fun to catch, and for the past few weeks, anglers who have been chasing crappies have usually been successful. The crappies have been in shallow water…
Mark Kayser After the crack of the rifle, my son Cole turned to me with a sly grin. The prairie dog he was aiming at nearly 150 yards away was…
Luke Clausen Provided by FLW Bass – July 2009 If fishing under the blazing sun doesn’t exactly sound thrilling, wetting a line under the July moon could be the escape you need.…
Bob McNally Bright-colored, cigar-shaped fishing floats aren’t the sort of gear you’d expect to see scattered about from recent use on the forward casting deck of a sophisticated, high-tech, $20,000…
Travis Eckman As seen on MyBuckStory.com As with many outdoorsmen in the Midwest, hunting the elusive whitetail deer is what drives my soul and provides the serenity and excitement that I…
Tony Roach with Doc Samson In the “Roach world” pretty much everything revolves around convincing walleyes and other fish to bite. Even when I’m not in the boat doing what…
Tracy Breen Let’s face it. Getting Dad the perfect Father’s Day gift can be difficult, especially if he is an outdoorsman because most outdoor enthusiasts go out and buy…