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News & Tips: ATV Safety
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ATV Safety

The latest studies show that the number of all-terrain vehicle injuries in 2011 surpassed 100,000, with 30 percent of those involving kids under 16, according to the United States Consumer Product…
News & Tips: Travel Blog: New Smyrna Beach, Florida...
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Travel Blog: New Smyrna Beach, Florida

Like so many marine coastal anglers in the southeastern U.S. and Gulf States, I have a fierce addiction to fishing for redfish: small ones, big ones, on topwater plugs or on soft plastics. I simply…
Fish Hook in hand
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How to Remove a Fish Hook and Injury Prevention

Even the most experienced anglers run into snags on some occasions; sometimes, it’s in the literal sense, as happens when getting hung up on a fishing hook as a result of a misplaced cast.   If you…
News & Tips: Lessons Learned From a Turkey Who Lived to Gobble Another Day...
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Lessons Learned From a Turkey Who Lived to Gobble Another Day

I was a young hunter, and he was an old gobbler, and the lesson he taught me has stuck to this very day. I had what I felt was a good setup on the side of an open hardwood ridge. I'd heard the turkey…
News & Tips: Hunting Deer the Benoit Way
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Hunting Deer the Benoit Way

If you are an avid hunter of whitetails, then you have likely heard of the Benoit family of Vermont. They are unquestionably the "First Family" of deer hunting in America. Shane Benoit with one of…
News & Tips: National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF) Convention...
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National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF) Convention

Feb. 14-16, I was in Nashville, Tenn., for the NWTF National Convention. Lots of folks had a tough time getting there because of the major snow storm back east.  This year, I was honored to emcee the…
News & Tips: A Tale of Two Crappie Bites
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A Tale of Two Crappie Bites

The importance of zooplankton, insect larvae and other invertebrates cannot be understated when it comes to ice fishing crappie — and other panfish for that matter. When papermouths are fixated on a…
News & Tips: The Ultimate Boat-Control Tool
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The Ultimate Boat-Control Tool

Every year, it seems I spend more and more time using walleye fishing tactics that have me fishing from the bow of my boat – tactics that require pin-point boat control and positioning. Add to that…
News & Tips: Bring on the Pre-Spawn!
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Bring on the Pre-Spawn!

Well, it’s March, and the lakes around you should be warming up, unless you are in the far North (you guys keep watching fishing shows for another 30-45 days … lol). Here in the South, the fishing is…
News & Tips: The Most Important Thing You Can Do for Whitetail Deer...
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The Most Important Thing You Can Do for Whitetail Deer

It may be the off-season for deer hunters but now is the time to do one of the most important things of the whole year for your white-tailed deer herd. Grant Woods checking out his hugh set of shed…
News & Tips: Guide to Bug Repellents
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Guide to Bug Repellents

As nice as it is to walk in the woods in early spring, it does not take long with the rising spring temperatures for ticks, black flies and mosquitoes to start hatching. In fact in most midwest…
Casey Ashley WIns FLW Hartwell by Casey Ashley WIns FLW Hartwell...
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Mercury Pro Casey Ashley Wins Hartwell FLW

Ashley works his magic on Hartwell Mercury pro Casey Ashley executed the rare wire-to-wire win at the FLW Tour event on Lake Hartwell out of Seneca, SC with a four-day total of 68 pounds 5 ounces.…