Every time I leave the launch on Lake St. Clair, I can't help stopping to wonder why more people don't take advantage of the Great Lakes' largest predator. St. Clair's enormous ecosystem produces…
One of the newest and deadliest spinnerbaits to "splash" the market recently for a wide range of freshwater species is Z-Man's ChatterBait lures. From first-hand experience in south Louisiana, and…
Here is the scenario. It's 7 a.m. on a Saturday morning. The boat is hitched to the truck, the fishing hooks have all been sharpened and the cooler is brimming with snacks and beverages to get you…
I can still remember the first goggle-eye I ever caught. I plunked a big minnow next to the gnarly roots of a huge swamp white oak along the banks of a borrow pit that encases the lake at Big Oak…
Last week we looked at how to identify doe bedding areas. To recap briefly, does claim the best habitat possible in semi-open areas that offer some cover near prime feed sources. These might be corn…
Reliving our outdoor experiences, whether it be fishing, hunting or wildlife encounters, is a common practice for those with a camera. These one dimensional images help take us back to those special…
Surprises come in two flavors: good and bad. Regarding hiking trails, both types of surprises exist. Rounding a bend on the side of a ridge to be welcomed by a breathtaking, panoramic view is a great…
Food never tastes better than when cooked outdoors. And nothing quite highlights a fun campout like your favorite foods prepared using special outdoor cooking methods.
Modern camp cooking can…
In this episode the team puts together a plan for hunting whitetails using MRI (Most Recent Information). Watch this video for tips on how to know when to hunt food plots vs. acorns as well as tips…
All 38 of us were bleeding; some suffered more serious wounds than others. The year was 1971. We were dug in on a mountainside on the Vietnam-Cambodian border. A five-hour night battle had just ended…
Recently, I took a friend to one of the better smallmouth lakes I know. This is a big, rugged Canadian Shield lake that holds good numbers of smallmouth in those classic locations that we all know…
A trait of any successful angler is being able to put a pattern together that'll catch fish. One key component to a pattern is lure retrieve. Jigging, hopping, twitching, and jerking are some terms…
