1. Never hike alone.
It may sound like common sense to the intermediate hiker. For beginner and advanced hikers, though, there’s often a temptation to chart your own course. Avoiding this temptation…
Vertical: It is a double-edged sword when it comes to catching through-the-ice walleyes. On the plus side, we are staying in direct contact with our lure and be spot-on the structure we are fishing…
There are two days I look forward to – the day I get my boat out in April and the day I put it away in November. You probably wonder why I would look forward to putting my rig away for the winter.…
When we think of snow goose hunting, the first thing that comes to mind is what we see on TV: thousands of geese piling into a field at the same time, being shot by the dozens when they finally…
I was awakened by the bustling of the flight attendants offering the breakfast boxes. It had been a year since I had heard the accompanying announcement we had only an hour left to reach our…
Anyone who knows me understands that one of my true passions when it comes to the sport of muskie fishing is teaching the virtues of catch and release. While I have covered this topic up one side and…
The Egg Sucking Leech is on the top of the author's list for the most productive and versatile patterns for early season trout. Driving home from a meeting the other day I was pleasantly…
Drive past the Guadalupe River west of New Braunfels in the Hill Country of Texas on a sunny summer day and it looks like you could walk across the tubes and rafts paving the river. But after a few…
What do you do when the temperature gauge reads sub zero for weeks on end? We do what any sane person would do: throw another log into the fireplace and wait for warmer weather. Right now, in the…
Coffee shops and work places in the Missouri, Ozarks, or any locale for that matter, are great places to pick up the latest fishing tips and hot action reports.
Wherever fishermen gather, stories fly…
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…
If you're of one of those fly fishers who packs away the gear at the first sign of snow, you're missing out on a very special type of fishing. Unknown to some fly anglers is the fact that, during the…
