Ken Cook Bass tournament season will shift into high gear later this month. Rare is it in this day that pros get a chance to wet a line in a…
Tim Herald Spring turkey hunting is a personal obsession for me, and over the years I have been fortunate enough to hunt many western states during April and May. With…
Horace LaFavor The First Fishing Folly is sponsored each year by the Carp Anglers Group, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the sport of carp fishing throughout North America. It is a one day event…
Craig Boddington The first big game I ever shot was taken in 1965 with a .243 Winchester. The rifle was a first-year production of what would quickly come to be…
Mike Hanback A stinky scrape the size of a tractor tire is the most bewitching buck mark you’ll find in the woods in a few weeks. It is also the…
Mike Hanback A stinky scrape the size of a tractor tire is the most bewitching buck mark you’ll find in the woods in a few weeks. It is also the…
Ken Barrett There’s something magical, and even a bit surreal, about walking out on a frozen lake, drilling or chopping a hole through the ice, lowering a line down into…
Bob McNally For every angler, and most particularly for the serious angler, the ability to tie proper fishing knots is vitally important. It is one of the most critical factors…
Tony Kinton Dreams don’t always come true. Some simply fade away with time; others actually materialize but afford little satisfaction. Rare it is to have dreams, even a single dream…
Kimberly J. Williams On a quiet, cold morning in January, thousands rise; dressed completely in camouflage, the hunters make their way to a duck blind. Weighted down by shotguns, ammunition,…
Ken Barrett Sitting in the dark house with a spear in my hand, I sat motionless, staring intently through a hole in the ice, waiting for a northern pike to…
Tim Herald In my opinion, there is no more fun bowhunt than a good plainsgame hunt in southern Africa. The variety of animals you can see and harvest is unparalleled,…
Craig Boddington In just a few hours it would be a hot July morning, but a pleasantly cool dawn was just breaking when we took a stand on a ridge.…
Jim Klatt You could say being left standing at the dike isn’t as bad being left at the altar, but I think it really depends on what you’re standing in.…
Bob McNally Some anglers believe the heyday of fishing for trophy largemouth bass on public lakes is over. They think a trophy bass of, say, 8-pounds or more, is about…
Tim Herald Thirty years ago my father gave me a book about all the big game animals of North America. I wore holes in the cover pouring over all the…
Hank Parker For many anglers and boat owners, the onset of winter means an end to the boating season. As temperatures continue to drop around the country, it is now…
M. D. Johnson I make no apologies to the mallard purists when I say there’s nothing wrong with greenheads, but there’s just something about divers. Perhaps it’s where they live-the…
Jim Duckworth As seen on theoutdoorwire.com When fishing for blacknose crappie in highland reservoirs, the first thing you have to do is throw the crappie rule book away because they haven’t…
Babe Winkelman I recently returned from the Northwest Bay on Rainy Lake in Ontario where we were walleye fishing. Boy were we excited going into that trip because anglers were…
Ken Cook If it’s not snow or freezing rain, it’s bone-chilling air temperatures and icy winds that make a day on the water nearly insufferable. But just because you’re uncomfortable,…
Mike Hanback Luke Strommen pulled back his longbow string and launched a wooden arrow down through the cottonwoods. It arched through the air as if in slow motion, then buried…
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