“It’s getting better all the time!”
If the Beatles were still around today, they may have written a song about Lake Erie and its tremendous fishery that emphasized how good it is … and that it keeps getting better all the time, year after year. This year appears to be no different when you look at the big picture.
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High winds, heavy rainfall, and a few tornadoes peppered the spring turkey woods and fields the day before Iowa’s third season opener.
Better yet, hens were already on the nest, according to my landowner host in Iowa’s Delaware County. Both events promised a good hunt. Little did I know how good. As I staked out a jake and two hen decoys in the darkness, a throaty gobbler rattled from his roost 300 yards away. His confident invitation to any nearby hen went unanswered.
Gene Kroupa: A heavy Iowa gobbler falls for some time-tested tactics Read More »
No doubt you’ve been a part of that’ll-never-work type of maneuvers in the turkey woods that end up paying dividends. Maybe it was a 20-yard reposition on some birds working around you. Or perhaps a complete end-around where you reconnected with a ranging flock you last laid eyes on hours earlier.
I can think of several times when I thought all hope was lost, when walking back to the truck and changing my view made all the difference in the world. So, can we harness that effectiveness deliberately, rather than randomly?
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News stories erupted nationwide based on a 376-word scientific journal abstract by the American Academy of Neurology on April 9. It suggested there might be a connection between a couple of people who died (the study didn’t say where) of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a prion-based illness, and chronic wasting disease.
Gary Roach says if you are fishing the Mississippi River
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According to the outdoor rule book, walleyes spawn at 42 degrees on wind-swept shorelines over rock on a full moon! Big fish eggs are no good because they are from old females. Ducks and geese don’t eat fish (excluding mergansers of course). Need I go on?
If you have spent a bit of time researching the outdoors, you likely have heard or read numerous things like this because we all want to understand the outdoors better as a fisherman, hunter, or naturalist. However, if there is anything more true than these observations, it is that Mother Nature rarely follows the rules.
Jeremiah Haas: Mother Nature doesn’t follow ‘the book’ Read More »
When I was younger, I made it an annual tradition to get absolutely spanked by wild turkeys. Every March, I would start practicing on my diaphragm calls, and I would read article upon article about how to kill a longbeard during each phase of the season.
I would try all the tactics I’d read about down to the letter and, without fail, I’d get close enough to think I’d seal the deal but would somehow blow it at the last second. This went on season after season, and the madder I’d get, the more determined I’d become to come out on top.
Ryan Rothstein: Turkeys not cooperating? Hunt them like deer Read More »
It was last July and I was hiking on Stockton Island (Apostle Islands National Lakeshore) with my wife and Joan, a friend of ours. After criss-crossing through the forest on the well-worn trails, we returned to the boat to take us back to Madeline Island where we began our search for ticks.
The latest strategies for controlling (or at least surviving) biting insects afield Read More »
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