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John Pollmann: South Dakota youth season offers lessons learned for young hunter
South Dakota’s two-day youth waterfowl season took place last weekend, and the conditions couldn’t have been much better for the state’s young hunters.
Cool, fall-like weather was accompanied by blue skies and a bit
Figuring out gear retrieve ratio – video
Hall of Fame angler “Tackle” Terry Tuma talks about gear retrieve ratios, especially when using crankbaits.
Key ingredients to up your odds for success on early-season morning hunts
I bumped a couple of bucks off their beds during a late-summer scouting trip two years ago. The weather and habitat conditions then were similar to what we typically see during the early archery season.<br
Steve Carney: With the Ned rig, like all baits, there’s some good, some bad
When you hang around a group of bass anglers, the talk frequently turns to the Ned rig. I often have clients who ask to fish the rig, but I must tell them that I have
Minnesota Pro Fishing Tip of the Week: Change it up to catch muskies
Fish get conditioned to seeing lures presented the same way, day after day, so fishing from shallow water to deep water will show them something different. Cast deep and bring your bait into the shallows.
Decades of angling Adirondack brook trout makes for plenty of memorable stories
It was a chilly morning for mid-June. One that felt more like late April or early October.
But it was just about right for a group of hearty Adirondack brook trout fishermen who can
New York Reader Stories: An old man, an old dog and a grouse
This hunt occurred when I was 65 years old. Grouse were considered to be at the peak of their eight-to-11 year cycle.
Since then, I have watched grouse populations plummet year after year in
Don’t make these three mistakes with cell cameras that hunters often make
Fifteen years ago, the idea of having a trail camera deliver up-to-the-minute images to your phone was wild. Today, it’s standard. Such is the way of technology, and while it seems as if cell cameras
What’s the impact of youth hunting seasons in Minnesota, Wisconsin?
Brothers Hunter and Wyatt Krebs, of Alexandria, Minn., are crazy about duck hunting.
Their father, Dean Krebs, set them on that path as an avid hunter himself who has introduced them to hunting for
