How To Guide

ATV outfitted with hunting gear
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Essential Gear to Outfit Your ATV

August 8, 2014
The popularity of ATVs among anglers and hunters is no surprise — these workhorses can carry or tow an incredible amount. They're easy to operate and, when handled responsibly and driven on…
News & Tips: 8 Tips for Spot and Stalk Antelope Hunting...
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8 Tips for Spot and Stalk Antelope Hunting

August 7, 2014
 Ready to spice up your bowhunting with an antelope spot and stalk hunt? Then be ready to boost your skills up a notch by preparing months in advance for perhaps one of the most challenging, exciting…
News & Tips: Fly Fishing for Brown Trout This Summer? Go With the Hopper...
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Fly Fishing for Brown Trout This Summer? Go With the Hopper

August 6, 2014
For fly anglers, as we enter the long dry conditions of late July and early August, fishing your favorite streams and rivers can become exceedingly difficult. This difficulty is due to the low water…
News & Tips: 3 Great Tarpon Lures and How to Fish Them...
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3 Great Tarpon Lures and How to Fish Them

August 5, 2014
Any lure specialist who pursues the Silver King should remember these key facts. Have sharp, strong saltwater hooks. Tarpon have huge, hard, suction-creating mouths as their feeding tool. This means…
News & Tips: Soft Stickbait Techniques for Summer River Walleyes...
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Soft Stickbait Techniques for Summer River Walleyes

August 4, 2014
Flukes — brand name anglers often use to describe one basic style of soft stickbaits — are highly effective river walleye baits when water temperatures rise into the mid 50s and beyond. Feeding fish…
News & Tips: Tips and Recipes for Grilling Fish
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Tips and Recipes for Grilling Fish

August 3, 2014
Grilling is an ideal way to sear in juices and capture the distinctive flavor of each type of fish, including freshwater species such as catfish, salmon, trout, walleye and crappie, and saltwater…
News & Tips: Tips to Keep Your Dog Safe When Hunting and Traveling...
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Tips to Keep Your Dog Safe When Hunting and Traveling

August 1, 2014
  It's a sad yet true fact: many upland and waterfowl hunters meticulously pore over hunting gear in preparation for a hunt, only to load their hunting dog into a kennel in the back of a truck as a…
News & Tips: 4 Weird Baits That Catch Catfish
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4 Weird Baits That Catch Catfish

July 31, 2014
Old "Mr. Whiskers" is one of America's favorite fish, both in terms of angling quality and cuisine. They are prolific and can be caught all across the country. And few fish can match the delicate…
News & Tips: How to Get the Drop on Pier Walleyes
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How to Get the Drop on Pier Walleyes

July 31, 2014
Walleye rivers of all sorts feature piers, vertical structures where walleyes collect during the summer fishing months. Bridge piers, which often funnel the river's current, are the most common.…
News & Tips: How One Angler Tackles Small Stream Catfish...
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How One Angler Tackles Small Stream Catfish

July 30, 2014
Biologists in state fisheries agencies have stated that underutilized catfish populations exist in smaller creeks and rivers from Virginia to Texas. Catfish can live in any water but cold streams at…
News & Tips: Fly Fishing: 9 Tips for Bushwhacking Backcountry Lunkers...
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Fly Fishing: 9 Tips for Bushwhacking Backcountry Lunkers

July 29, 2014
It's about 10 a.m., and my buddy and I have already been walking for more than two hours. The trail into the forest long gone, we lunge over slippery fallen logs and scramble up rock outcrops.  Far…
News & Tips: 3 Clear-Water Crappie Tactics From the Fishing Experts...
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3 Clear-Water Crappie Tactics From the Fishing Experts

July 29, 2014
I do most of my crappie fishing in eastern Arkansas where clear waters are as rare as 5-pound crappie. I have no trouble catching crappie in the highly colored oxbow lakes I usually visit, but put me…