In life, patience is a virtue. In hunting, it’s often a necessity.
Deer hunters know this. Waterfowl hunters do, too. For some reason, a lot of pheasant hunters have missed the memo. This costs them birds, at least in the case of anyone running flushing dogs. The key to a limit of ringnecks is often just slowing down and letting the dogs do their thing.
This is easier said than done.
Slow down and let your dogs work for roosters Read More »
I kept waiting for the disappointment.
It didn’t come. I’d seen a deer dart across the abandoned lane over which I was sitting. I heard scrambling in the brush and, this being the thick of the rut, figured a buck was chasing a doe. Sure enough, a mature doe walked out of the thicket and paused to look back, 25 yards away.
Steve Griffin: No disappointment in taking a Michigan doe Read More »
Wisconsin lost a unique advocate for the natural world when Dave Vetrano, 74, passed away Nov. 3.
Vetrano, a retired Department of Natural Resources (DNR) fish manager, had been battling pancreatic cancer. He represented the dedication typical of many DNR employees both while working and retired. Vetrano, probably the only DNR fish manager with long hair, an earring, and a motorcycle, understood the impact land use in the Driftless Region had on trout streams.
Dave Vetrano put Southwest Wisconsin trout streams on the map Read More »
Let the sport shows begin!
Ohio’s popular winter sports show season gets underway Jan. 10 and continues through March with a full calendar of expos scheduled across the state. The shows provide a welcome time to gather with folks who share mutual interests in fishing, boating, hunting, and other active outdoor pursuits, at a time when many of us begin to suffer a bit of cabin fever.
Ohio sport show season kicks off in January Read More »
I’m catching the fever. All it took was one snowy February night out with a couple of well-seasoned (and very successful) predator hunters to become infected.
Within 15 minutes of our first stand of the night on a neighbor’s sheep farm, I connected on a 35-pound female coyote. After a brief series of rabbit distress calls and female coyote howls from a game call, one well-placed shot from the .6mm Creedmoor at 300 yards (peering through a thermal scope, I might add) had my adrenaline pumping like I just bagged a trophy buck.
It’s easy to get hooked on coyote hunting in Pennsylvania Read More »
At the end of successful fishing trip on the Wisconsin side of Lake Michigan, after the requisite photos were taken, the deckhand unsheathed a knife, plastic bags, and other fish-cleaning necessities and expertly dissected fillets off the salmon and trout we’d caught.
The fillets went into a plastic bag, and the carcasses and other offal were unceremoniously chucked overboard as the boat motored towards the distant shore.
I approached the captain and asked, “Is it legal to clean the fish and throw the carcasses back into the lake?”
Mike Schoonveld: Do Michigan fish cleaning rules need changing? Read More »
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