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Bass’n plan: Winning tournament strategies for the weekend angler
Is 2023 the year you win a bass tourney trophy?

Pennsylvania Cuffs & Collars: Multiple citations filed for poaching buck, turkeys
Field reports from Pennsylvania Wildlife Game Wardens and Waterways Conservation Officers.

Stories from the first season in a new hunting house
If you’re a regular reader of this publication, or one of my neighbors, then you already know my father and I spent many weekends last spring and summer building a permanent shooting house on the

What does the perfect setup look like for spring steelhead?
A fish may see a parade of presentations go by, therefore yours should be better than the rest. And, if you are not watching the line carefully, a strike can come and go unnoticed, which

Here’s how to pull big bluegills from Iowa’s West Lake Okoboji
For years, ice anglers from across the Midwest have headed to northwest Iowa’s West Lake Okoboji to sight fish the finicky bluegills for which it is famous.
Late ice toward the end of

A look at some ‘other’ ways to call in a spring gobbler
There are other options outside of the traditional mouth-pot-box lineup. All of those “other” calls can be highly effective at times, all are fun to operate (although some are more of a challenge than others),

What you can do right now to prepare for next deer season
There are a couple things you can do now to make the 2023 season much easier, more organized, and hopefully save you some money as well.

A flight delay? Snow geese will arrive in the Upper Midwest eventually
Despite recent snowstorms, it won’t be long until the spring snow goose migration arrives in the Upper Midwest, with snows, blues, and Ross’ geese of the midcontinent flock moving through western Minnesota and across the