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News & Tips: Outdoor Survival Guide: 5 Everyday Items Repurposed for Survival...
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Outdoor Survival Guide: 5 Everyday Items Repurposed for Survival

With a little creativity, even the most mundane items can be used for other than their intended purposes -- and that even extends to uses for survival in the outdoors. Tip: Beginner Survival Skills:…
News & Tips: Back To Basics: Hunting Safety Tips
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Back To Basics: Hunting Safety Tips

Type the search term “hunting” into Google News, and along with fishing and hunting reports, one of the most frequent search returns are news stories about hunting accidents, from hunters getting…
News & Tips: Coyote Scouting Tips
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Coyote Scouting Tips

Coyotes, with their clever nature and wily behavior, have been grabbing a lot of headlines lately. Most notably, because lone coyotes as well as packs have been showing up in urban locations -- like…
News & Tips: Deer Hunting Tips & Tricks: Scent Control...
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Deer Hunting Tips & Tricks: Scent Control

When considering tactics for harvesting mature bucks, the most vital area to focus on is scent control. The most important defense a whitetail deer has is its nose. You can beat the eyes with good…
News & Tips: Late-Season Deer Tactics: Food Plots
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Late-Season Deer Tactics: Food Plots

After the rut and when deer activity has slowed down for the season, it’s good for hunters to center their attention on the food source. By the end of most deer seasons, the acorn crop is gone. I…
News & Tips: Impact of Climate Change on Fishing
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Impact of Climate Change on Fishing

The ice caps are melting, the seas are rising and species are adapting and moving into new habitats. The warming world climate is having many consequences, including a change in the size of aquatic…
News & Tips: Bass Pro to Open New Sportsman's Center in Cary, NC...
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Bass Pro to Open New Sportsman's Center in Cary, NC

Bass Pro Shops to Open New Sportsman's Center in Cary (Raleigh), North Carolina Cary, N.C. — Bass Pro Shops, America’s most popular outdoor store, has reached agreement to locate a new store in…
News & Tips: 13 Steps to Tying the Adams Dry Fly
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13 Steps to Tying the Adams Dry Fly

In fly fishing, the Adams fly is easily one of the most recognizable dry flies ever conjured from a vice. Originally designed by Len Halladay of Michigan in 1922, the Adams is as effective on today's…
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Take a Kid Fishing

I love to take my wife, Chris, fishing. I really do, even though she out-fishes me most of the time. She’s won just about everything there was to win in Bass’n Gal competition, 10x Angler of the Year…
News & Tips: Winter Fishing Yields Big Spotted Bass...
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Winter Fishing Yields Big Spotted Bass

As the days get shorter and the nights longer, waters begin to cool down. One secret to enjoying productive winter fishing is to get in the tailraces below dams. This tactic works all across the…
News & Tips: Tis the Season for Sinking Christmas Trees in Your Local Fishing Hole...
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Tis the Season for Sinking Christmas Trees in Your Local Fishing Hole

“Merry Christmas! Happy New Year! By the way, could I please have your Christmas tree?” Christmas trees make great habitat for many species of fish, and besides, why let them go to waste after…
News & Tips: The TVA New Johnsonville Fossil Power Plant Water Outlet: An Unexpected Place to Catch Fish...
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The TVA New Johnsonville Fossil Power Plant Water Outlet: An Unexpected Place to Catch Fish

We all are guilty of overlooking a cove or inlet when we are blasting down the river or lake trying to get to what we think will be a honey hole with tons of bass. I have been guilty of this more…