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News & Tips: Northeast Waterways Will Be Hopping During Cicada Season...
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Northeast Waterways Will Be Hopping During Cicada Season

May 10, 2013
Over the next few weeks, billions—maybe even trillions—of Brood II cicadas are buzzing their way across the Northeast. It’s an event that happens only once every 17 years, and causes anglers to…
News & Tips: How to Take Advantage of the Topwater Bite During Cicada Season...
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How to Take Advantage of the Topwater Bite During Cicada Season

May 10, 2013
As cicadas began to descend on Northeastern states such as my native Pennsylvania, veteran anglers like me get excited.  Why? These billions of Brood II cicadas—thumb-sized insects that emerge from…
News & Tips: 4 Fishing Facts About Minnesota and Wisconsin’s Late Spring...
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4 Fishing Facts About Minnesota and Wisconsin’s Late Spring

May 9, 2013
On the opening day of fishing season in at least two upper Midwest states, ice fishing gear proved to be more useful than regular equipment.  Though lakes there continue to thaw, anglers in Minnesota…
News & Tips: Pre-Season Smallmouth on the Gasconade River...
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Pre-Season Smallmouth on the Gasconade River

May 9, 2013
Will Rollins, of Vienna, Missouri, has spent his entire life in that little central Missouri hill town. Much of his time, however, he spent happily chasing smallmouth bass on the nearby Gasconade…
News & Tips: Will the Brood II Cicada Invasion Improve Bass Fishing?...
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Will the Brood II Cicada Invasion Improve Bass Fishing?

May 9, 2013
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…
News & Tips: 3 Tips for Topwater Fishing During Cicada Season...
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3 Tips for Topwater Fishing During Cicada Season

May 9, 2013
Across the Northeast this May, billions of cicadas will descend on states from Connecticut to Virginia. Every 13 to 17 years, cicadas emerge from their underground habitats to shed their skin, and…
News & Tips: Suckers on Opening Weekend
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Suckers on Opening Weekend

May 5, 2013
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…
News & Tips: Children with Special Needs Learn The Joy of Hunting...
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Children with Special Needs Learn The Joy of Hunting

May 3, 2013
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…
News & Tips: Baits & Techniques to Catch Springtime Schooling Bass...
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Baits & Techniques to Catch Springtime Schooling Bass

April 30, 2013
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,…
News & Tips: Springtime Suckers
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Springtime Suckers

April 26, 2013
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…
News & Tips: Final Results of Florida's 2013 Python Challenge...
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Final Results of Florida's 2013 Python Challenge

April 25, 2013
At the beginning of this year, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission held a competition to boost awareness about one of the Everglades’ most imposing invasive species -- the Burmese…
News & Tips: Hunting Eastern Wild Turkeys
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Hunting Eastern Wild Turkeys

April 22, 2013
Birds can be flocked-up during the earliest phase of spring turkey season, and our turkeys were. Jim Martin and I had a plan in the early season to hunt a little old school going after dominant birds…