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A fun and effective approach to running and gunning for turkeys
It was late May in 2022 when my daughter and I got positioned against a huge oak on a narrow tree line between crop fields for our last turkey hunt of the Minnesota season.

How do longbeards and geometry go together? The answer can help you bag gobblers
A long time ago when I was a clueless sophomore and maintaining passing grades in geometry was a daily struggle, I felt insulted when the teacher used the term “obtuse” while addressing our class.

Here’s what’s on tap for the biggest national bass tournaments in 2025
With the nation’s northern locales largely locked in winter’s icy grip and only dreaming about fishing open water, some of the world’s top bass anglers – nearly 170 of them split between two national tournament

Michigan Reader Stories: Father, son share emotional elk hunt that at one point didn’t seem possible
We started into the pines moving slowly through the deep snow. The bulls were already in the woods on the opposite side headed to bed down.
This stalk was different than any other I

Want to try Pennsylvania’s trout waters on the ice? Here’s how to do it
The snow slanted down hard, pushed ahead by what the weatherman would later say were 48-mph gusts.
If I had been home during such conditions, I’d never open the front door, but this was

A doe with a muzzleloader helps thin Ohio’s South Bass Island deer herd
Since I moved off Ohio’s South Bass Island, aka Put-in-Bay, after my retirement in 2011, I have watched as the island’s deer population jumped from a couple of family units to numbers approaching the limit

Minnesota foundation helps youth with life-threatening illnesses ‘just be kids’
Dan Oliver remembers.
He remembers that Lake of the Woods ice-fishing trip several years ago. One night, sitting at a lodge bar sipping an adult beverage with friends after a day on the hard

Jigging down for crappies and sunfish – video
Drop your jig a couple of feet below the ice and then hold the line and slowly drop the line and jig another 10 to 12 inches at a time to draw crappies and sunfish.

Jeff Frischkorn: Chasing the winter doldrums one fly at a time
Each whisk of wind that danced through the folds of whatever jacket I’ve worn this winter was met with the same uncharitable oath of condemnation. It was not always so.
Time was once I