As a professional fisherman, one of the questions I'm often asked every time cicada season rolls around is whether it will make bass fishing better.
Now, my expertise is hosting worldwide fishing…
Being an avid fisherman in Wisconsin for the last 18-plus years I have heard many people gripe about the chaos of opening day. As sportsman and conservationists we are all a little inherently…
As hunters, one of our most important responsibilities is to pass our love of hunting on to the next generation.
That includes children who have special needs. For them, hunting can be a therapeutic…
No matter what time of the year it is, and no matter how nasty and cold the weather is, fishing addicts all across the world brave the elements year after year. Through rain, sleet, hail or snow,…
Suckers are a freshwater species of fish that are normally found in rivers but also can be found in lakes. Suckers, by almost anybody's standards, won't be the most spectacular fish they have ever…
Standing on the banks of the Brule River this weekend I noticed the first signs of life rising off the water. Stoneflies are the earliest significant hatches fly anglers will see every spring and one…
Food plots will not only improve the health of your deer herd, they'll also increase your hunting success in the fall. Once you've chosen a spot, cleared the ground, applied lime and fertilizer and…
It was a tough challenge my partner and I faced that spring day in New York's Catskill Mountains. Conflicting schedules allowed us just one morning to hunt turkey together. The bird we located the…
Most turkey hunters associate spring gobbler season with mixed farm country and wood lots or vast reaches of national forest land covered with mature hardwood forests. But there's another kind of…
In my March 19 blog, I reported on how the first major warming period of the spring often provides some of the best fishing of the year for river smallmouth bass, in terms of numbers of quality fish…
One thing you learn very early on when you live “Up North” is that winter gives you plenty of time to ponder and reflect on things you might not normally spend much time thinking about (and I am…
If early hunting season turkeys are still be bunched up in their wintering flocks or just beginning to break up into smaller breeding flocks, there are a variety of different calls I like to use.…
