Tips & Features
A great new year for birdwatchers chasing northern owls
Birders clearly are witnessing an irruption of great gray and boreal owls in places like Minnesota’s Sax Zim Bog this winter.
Worth the expense? Today’s top-end bows nearly all cost more than $1,000
Remarkable new materials and technology allows bowhunters to step afield with excellent archery equipment, but test any new bow and ultimately spend what you want.
Use these lures and tactics in targeting winter walleyes
With best winter in years for ice fishing, forget the so-called mid-winter ice fishing blues and hit the ice now for heart-of-hard-water fishing.
Seven top questions (and answers) from the ice-fishing seminar season
With ice-fishing consumer sportshows in the rearview mirror, let’s tackle some excellent questions with answers that will improve your hard-water angling this winter.
How to get the most out of your recreational-land investment
Kristen Monroe talks with land specialist Aaron Milliken, a Whitetail Properties team leader, about ways to add value to recreational land. Milliken suggests projects such as timber sales, trails, and plantings.
Proper field care critical to great-tasting venison
Remember, deer meat doesn’t taste “gamey.” Heat and improper field dressing of the animal will only make it taste that way.
Keeping the boat primed for river fishing and other soft-water, winter angling opportunities
Open water within driving distance? Then follow these tips for productive casting and functional, safe boating all winter long.
Tips to increase your deer-calling success
By Gary Sefton “You’re not going to believe this,” the excited deer hunter exclaimed. “I hadn’t seen anything all morning, so I let my bow down and started to unfasten my safety belt. I remembered
Icing largemouth with Mike Hehner and Aqua-Vu
Mike Hehner shows how he uses his Aqua-Vu to specifically target largemouth bass during the hard-water season.
