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News & Tips: Which is Right for You: Air Mattress, Sleeping Pad or Cot?...
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Which is Right for You: Air Mattress, Sleeping Pad or Cot?

Having a peaceful sleep is important to stay rested, alert and relaxed, but getting enough shut-eye can be challenging beyond the walls of your home. Investing in a quality cot, mattress or sleeping…
News & Tips: Fourth of July Brookies
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Fourth of July Brookies

It seemed fitting — on the day when we celebrate our independence — to not only go fishing, but to purse a native species. And in the northeastern United States nothing better fits such a description…
News & Tips: Ten Commandments for Topwatering
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Ten Commandments for Topwatering

Bass fishing is like a religion. To the ardent angler, it is a passion fueled by an insatiable appetite for all things Micropterus. Biblical? Not really, although, if truth be known, we are all…
News & Tips: Travel: Tarpon Lodge, Pine Island, Florida...
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Travel: Tarpon Lodge, Pine Island, Florida

I've always liked to think of southwest Florida as my second home. So many of my angling travels relied on and reveled in Gulfside resort towns like Naples, Sanibel, and Sarasota. But there was one…
News & Tips: Muzzleloader Buyer's Guide
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Muzzleloader Buyer's Guide

As whitetail deer populations continue to soar in many parts of the North, East and South, often near populated areas, more and more jurisdictions are adding primitive-weapons-only seasons. Out West…
News & Tips: 5 Reasons to Get Into Muzzleloading
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5 Reasons to Get Into Muzzleloading

Hunting with a muzzleloader is one of the fastest growing segments of the hunting world. If you've been thinking about it for a while, here's why you need to make this the year you embrace this…
News & Tips: Cranking Up Summer Crappie
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Cranking Up Summer Crappie

Hang around this country's top crappie anglers and you'll learn something that may surprise you. During summer, when crappie move to deeper haunts, many of these anglers don't fish with jigs, minnows…
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Pike in Transition

The wheels screeching on the runway woke me from my two hour nap. The plane, my third one for the day safely landed at Chicago’s O’Hara airport. I have been traveling to Canada for more than 30 years…
News & Tips: Tips to Improve Your Deer Hunting Property...
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Tips to Improve Your Deer Hunting Property

This episode is full of tips that every hunter can use!  Dr. Woods and the GrowingDeerTV team tour a property in Eastern Missouri offering the landowner tips and advice on how he can improve his…
News & Tips: Product Review: Mann's 1-Minus Crankbaits...
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Product Review: Mann's 1-Minus Crankbaits

There's a cornucopia of crankbaits out there for bass anglers, but one of my top choices is a Mann's 1-Minus. This bait catches behemoths. If you're a fan of plying extra-shallow areas, this is a…
News & Tips: NRA National Sporting Arms Museum at Bass Pro Shops...
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NRA National Sporting Arms Museum at Bass Pro Shops

Grand opening of NRA National Sporting Arms Museum at the Bass Pro Shops in Missouri SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – On Aug. 2, 2013, the National Rifle Association will celebrate the grand opening of the NRA…
News & Tips: Spinning Deer Hair: Create Cool Looking Flies That Catch Fish...
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Spinning Deer Hair: Create Cool Looking Flies That Catch Fish

Of all the techniques involved in fly tying, spinning deer hair is one of the most challenging. Patterns that use this technique tend to be large and involved, often scaring away newly initiated…