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News & Tips: Spend Your Time Hunting Squirrels Around These 4 Fall Food Sources...
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Spend Your Time Hunting Squirrels Around These 4 Fall Food Sources

A crisp fall morning, a .22 rifle in hand and squirrels grating on nuts; what a way to spend the day in the woods! Ripe hickory nuts, plentiful acorns, aromatic walnuts and cool fall mornings set the…
News & Tips: Fiberglass Fly Rods: A Trout Angler's Desire to Feel More of the Casting Action...
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Fiberglass Fly Rods: A Trout Angler's Desire to Feel More of the Casting Action

After catching a smattering of six- to eight-inch wild brown trout, the sixteen incher looked like a salmon when it came out from behind a submerged tree trunk and inhaled the nymph.  A second later…
News & Tips: The Endless Possibilities of Spotlights...
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The Endless Possibilities of Spotlights

When you need a super-bright, far-reaching light, a spotlight works best. Navigating a boat at night, viewing wildlife after dark, varmint hunting, frog hunting and emergency signaling are all tasks…
News & Tips: Travel Blog: The Best Time to Fish for Migratory Predators in Goodland, Florida...
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Travel Blog: The Best Time to Fish for Migratory Predators in Goodland, Florida

Though there’s a stretch of summer swelter between, the seasons will turn and fall will arrive before you know it. It’s a magic time along Florida’s southwest coast, with all manner of minnows,…
News & Tips: 3 Reasons to Fish Fast for Panfish
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3 Reasons to Fish Fast for Panfish

While there is a time and place for slow presentations for panfish, I'm here to tell you that fishing fast is a great way to catch more and bigger sunfish, crappie and yellow perch. Reason 1: It…
News & Tips: 6 Secrets to Steering Deer to Your Stand...
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6 Secrets to Steering Deer to Your Stand

As hunters we mostly try to figure out where deer are moving and then set up an ambush along that route. But sometimes it's useful to turn that scenario around and actually make the deer move where…
News & Tips: The Hype Around Non-Typical Clover Seed...
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The Hype Around Non-Typical Clover Seed

Clover, and especially white clover, is perhaps the single best plant available for deer food plots. It's fairly easy to establish, provides a high protein level, and when perennial types such as…
News & Tips: 5 Tips for Uncovering Cane-Bed Bass
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5 Tips for Uncovering Cane-Bed Bass

    Standing cane, or what is commonly called bulrush, attract largemouth bass both for the cover and concealment they provide, as well as the food sources that are found within. Plucking fish from…
News & Tips: John Blaquiere Buck Featured on Bass Pro Shops King of Bucks Sept 13...
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Brenda Valentine's Snowy Alabama Whitetail Hunt Featured on Bass Pro Shops King of Bucks Sept. 6

Visit the Outdoor Channel King of Bucks Television If hunting Alabama whitetails in the snow seems strange to people, imagine how winter weather short circuits a southern buck’s brain. Those were…
News & Tips: How to Fly Fish Tandem Streamer Rigs
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How to Fly Fish Tandem Streamer Rigs

Although it might seem like it is more trouble than it's worth, fishing two flies in tandem can have a tremendous upside. Most fly fisherman have heard of fishing dry and dopper rigs (dry and nymph…
News & Tips: Tips for Trout Fishing With Ultralight Spinning Gear...
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Tips for Trout Fishing With Ultralight Spinning Gear

When it comes to trout fishing, particularly on smaller streams, one need not let a lack of fly casting skill keep him or her from enjoying the benefits of showing the fish flies. In many instances…
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8 Clues Deer Droppings Can Tell You

Experienced hunters are sometimes dismissive of deer pellets as valuable sign. "I thought only novices got excited about finding droppings," a hunting partner once said when I bent down to examine a…