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News & Tips: Tools and Tips for Managing Whitetails...
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Tools and Tips for Managing Whitetails

Off season management continues here on The Proving Grounds as we fill the Redneck feeders with Record Rack feeds. Then I take you inside the science of soil and what it all means for growing antlers…
News & Tips: Wisconsin's Early Trout Season
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Wisconsin's Early Trout Season

If you are lucky enough to live in a Wisconsin county that has early season regulations (catch and release), getting out and wetting a line the first weekend in March could be quite an adventure. (…
News & Tips: Take Advantage of Twilight on Ice
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Take Advantage of Twilight on Ice

  The author holds a walleye that hit at dusk on Lake of the Woods in Ontario's Sunset Country. While ice fishing is exhilarating, it can also be challenging at times. Frigid temperatures will…
News & Tips: Cliff Pace Wins 2013 Bassmaster Classic...
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Cliff Pace Wins 2013 Bassmaster Classic

Petal, Mississippi's Cliff Pace is the 2013 Bassmaster Classic Champion. He achieved this lofty goal handily despite experiencing what he described as his 'hardest day of fishing in his life'. While…
News & Tips: Improving Your Natural Deer Habitat
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Improving Your Natural Deer Habitat

Many people believe they can't improve their deer hunting property because they don't have a barn full of expensive equipment. Nothing could be further from the truth. Stems and leaves from low-…
News & Tips: What Size Hole?
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What Size Hole?

Choosing the best hand auger is a common dilemma for those that flood the ice each winter. Many feel that "The bigger the hole, the better," but, depending on specie targeted, ice conditions, and…
News & Tips: Ike Wants a Hot Classic - 2013 Bassmaster Classic...
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Ike Wants a Hot Classic - 2013 Bassmaster Classic

Low profile is not what any BassFIRST fan would ever think of when describing Mike Iaconelli, but in reality the bass fishing Megastar has been keeping a low profile over the last year. He didn’t…
News & Tips: Ott Needs Big Fish - 2013 Bassmaster Classic...
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Ott Needs Big Fish - 2013 Bassmaster Classic

Finding fish won’t be a problem for 2012 Toyota Tundra Bassmaster Angler of the Year runner-up Ott DeFoe, but catching fish large enough to take home the Classic title may be. “What I can tell at…
News & Tips: Hike for the Health of It
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Hike for the Health of It

Have you stayed the course on the promise you made as the New Year was born? For many, statistics show that the New Year's resolution promise is broken by the end of January. A popular New Year's…
News & Tips: Price of Quality Fishing Gear
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Price of Quality Fishing Gear

We were fishing together, yet we were fishing in two different boats. Neither of us wanted to fish from the back of another angler's boat — both of us wanted to fish from the bow. Our solution has…
News & Tips: NASCAR - Sportsman Racing Team
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NASCAR - Sportsman Racing Team

Excited About the 2013 NASCAR Season! Watch last year's Camping World Truck Series Rookie of the Year, Ty Dillon, driver of the #3 Bass Pro Shops / Tracker Boats Chevy truck and the #14 Bass Pro…
News & Tips: Tying the Black Nose Dace
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Tying the Black Nose Dace

The Black Nose Dace is one of those special fly patterns that fly fisherman have favored for years on end. This streamer pattern was created by Art Flick in the early 1950s and works when nothing…