Tips & Features
Steve Piatt: Old age adds to the appreciation felt for the turkey woods
Spring gobbler season is, quite literally, a painful reminder that I’m now the same age as old people.
Yet I still hunt, and my pre-season scouting runs essentially turn May Madness into a two-month
Gear to prioritize when building a whitetail Sitka system for each part of the season
Does a hunter need high-quality clothing to kill deer? It’s not a necessity for everyone, but it can certainly make hunting a more enjoyable experience, as well as keep a person in the woods longer
Blue-winged olives entice trout to feed all season long on Michigan streams
Big fly, big fish. Right?
Well, not always. Sometimes the fish key on the most numerous flies on the water – even if the flies are tiny. And those flies the fish are keying
White bass bring walleye anglers back to Wisconsin’s Wolf River
Wisconsin towns along the Wolf River recently saw a second surge of anglers chasing a spawning run, but this one was for white bass, not the better known walleye run.
Although walleyes draw anglers
Tales of when predators attack…turkey decoys
Nature’s surprises often turn routine hunts into lifetime memories.
Sometimes you smile, wondering why a mallard hen would expose her waddling brood to avian and terrestrial predators by marching them across a bare 300-yard
Pennsylvania’s Conneaut Lake a nice choice for late spring bass fishing
Fishing adventures are more fun when shared with a buddy, so I asked my friend, Mark, to accompany me for a bass fishing adventure at Conneaut Lake in Crawford County, Pa.
Mark readily accepted
Hybrid striped bass can be found in many Ohio waters, and certainly earn their hard-fighting reputation
Heterosis (hybrid vigor) means a hybrid striper has more potential than the parents to grow faster, attain a beefier physique, and show a higher tolerance to stress. How much vigor depends on the cards dealt.
Pennsylvania Reader Stories: Some poach gobblers during the Sabbath day
The so-called “Sunday hunting ban” has never stopped Norm Green, of Northeast Pa., or me, during spring gobbler season.
We have always utilized Sundays as scouting days during gobbler season. We’ve often located active
From bass to panfish, topwater lures dominate in June
Summer is here, and with it comes a sense of consistency in fishing.
The unpredictability of spring is fading as weather patterns become more stable. Anglers typically welcome the month of June with open
