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News & Tips: Autumn Campfire Safety
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Autumn Campfire Safety

For many campers, there is not a more pleasing time of year to sit around a cozy campfire than during the autumn months. Although, campfires can also become a roaring, damaging wildfire in only a few…
News & Tips: 10 of The World's Meanest & Ugliest Game Fish...
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10 of The World's Meanest & Ugliest Game Fish

Websites and magazines often publish lists of the world's toughest or most dangerous game fish. But this is the first time anyone created a list of the world's meanest and ugliest fish.   You won't…
News & Tips: The Wet Fly Swing
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The Wet Fly Swing

Wet flies are traditional fly patterns that were originally tied to mimic insects which had been swept beneath the surface and dredged along underwater. Wet fly patterns are known for being tied…
News & Tips: Asian Carp Invasion? Make Chowder
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Asian Carp Invasion? Make Chowder

The Asian carp invasion has swept over the United States like the Biblical plaque of locusts. In a mere 30 years the invasive species has spread from a few individuals in an Arkansas pond to millions…
News & Tips: Teddy Roosevelt's Influence on Conservation in America...
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Teddy Roosevelt's Influence on Conservation in America

By Kelly Durbin For many, Theodore Roosevelt is best known as the 26th President of the United States. For outdoorsmen, hunters, and defenders of the wild, his most important contribution was the…
News & Tips: Hunting for Fly Materials
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Hunting for Fly Materials

Most people who tie flies spend an awful lot of time visiting their local fly shops or pouring over catalogues in search of material. For the most part, I'm no different. But come autumn, I also try…
News & Tips: Big River Waterfowl Hunting Tips
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Big River Waterfowl Hunting Tips

In the South, some tornadoes are to be feared; others are to be welcomed.   This tornado was in the latter category. It was a cyclone of ducks — a vortex of rushing noise and wind. There were 500 or…
News & Tips: Fishing: Late Summer Schooling In Session...
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Fishing: Late Summer Schooling In Session

As the temperatures slowly begin to drop across the country, something happens to the bass. Many of the fish that were previously deep offshore on structure begin to make their annual migration back…
News & Tips: Scoring Whitetail Deer
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Scoring Whitetail Deer

Hunters, while it's a mistake to become obsessed with what a deer's antlers would score, there are many valid reasons to be interested in this measurement of the rack an animal carries. For one thing…
News & Tips: The Elk That Almost Broke Us
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The Elk That Almost Broke Us

Drawing an elk tag for the White Mountains of eastern Arizona is no easy task, and hunting the White Mountains is dang near impossible. Our destination was an area that locals call "The Blue", near…
News & Tips: North Dakota is a Duck Hunters Paradise...
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North Dakota is a Duck Hunters Paradise

As an avid duck hunter in northern Wisconsin, I thought that I knew what good duck hunting was all about. I can still remember jumping ponds or sitting on the shores of Lake Superior working hard to…
Scroggins Under Knife by Scroggins Under Knife
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Scroggins Under The Knife

Mercury/Humminbird pro Terry Scroggins has plans for one of the more unique off-seasons compared to the rest of the Bassmaster Elite Series pros. Sure, Scroggins will get in some hunting, golfing and…