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News & Tips: Five Mistakes to Avoid When Hunting Deer...
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Five Mistakes to Avoid When Hunting Deer

These mistakes can be unsafe, unproductive and unenjoyable. Whether you're not wearing hunter orange or hunting without a license, you're doing it wrong. Here are the five biggest mistakes and how to…
News & Tips: Submitted Recipes: Duck
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Submitted Recipes: Duck

If you have a favorite duck recipe you'd like to share on Bass Pro 1Source, email it to community@basspro.com. Photos are also welcome! Speedy Fowl Posted By: Pete Monaghan Ingredients  Goose…
News & Tips: Tying Season Has Begun
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Tying Season Has Begun

With the appearance of snow on the ground this weekend, fly tying season has officially kicked off. I am by no means a fair weather fly fisherman but the opportunities to get out on the water when…
News & Tips: The Versatile Walking Stick
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The Versatile Walking Stick

The walking staff is one of mankind's oldest and simplest devices to help them walk or hike. People have used these long wooden shafts for thousands of years. Like any tool used for many centuries,…
News & Tips: Rope Knot Library: How to Tie a Bowline Rope Knot...
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Rope Knot Library: How to Tie a Bowline Rope Knot

How to Tie a Bowline Rope Knot One of the most useful rope knots you can know. The Bowline knot forms a secure loop that will not jam and is easy to tie and untie. The Bowline is most commonly used…
News & Tips: Tube Jigs for River Walleyes
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Tube Jigs for River Walleyes

Tube jigs are typically thought of as bass baits: smallmouths off of rock piles; largemouths from underneath docks. But tubes are also effective on river walleyes, particularly during late fall and…
Rainy River Walleyes by Rainy River Walleyes
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Rainy River Walleyes

Late Fall on the borders of Minnesota and Ontario out of Baudette Minnesota means one thing for the serious angler...Rainy River Walleyes! The river runs along the border, and divides the State of…
News & Tips: Float Hunting Ducks
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Float Hunting Ducks

The canoe slides like a whisper on the river, just inches from a slick, muddy bank. Its two occupants are on high alert. The man in the front cradles a shotgun at port arms. The one in the back…
News & Tips: Travel Blog: Naples, Florida
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Travel Blog: Naples, Florida

It looked like our skiff would be swallowed by a solid wall of mangroves, but Captain Jeff Legutki banked the Hell's Bay Whipray into a leftward arc, revealing a good sized "cathedral"-style opening…
News & Tips: Dry and Wet-Fly Line Mending Techniques...
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Dry and Wet-Fly Line Mending Techniques

Dry-Fly Line Mending To the beginning dry-fly angler, the ability to present a drag-free drift probably doesn't seem all that important or difficult compared to the numerous skills needed for a…
7 fishing knots tying guide
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Fishing Knots: The Professional Fishing Guide (infographic)

Learn to Tie Fishing Knots With This Handy Step by Step Picture Guide Get knot tying tips from the professionals on the loop, palomar, uni and more! We asked some of the Bass Pro Shops fishing pros…
News & Tips: Fishing Underwater Humps Hold Fish
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Fishing Underwater Humps Hold Fish

Humps hold a tremendous amount of potential, and are certainly capable of coughing up a true trophy. Out from shore, hidden from the naked eye, lies a fish-holding factory that is jam-packed with…