Tips & Features
What’s the exact right trolling speed? Match it to water temperature and fish metabolism
Nobody thinks twice when Canada geese start flying south in the fall or head back north in the spring. Seasonal geese movements are not considered mysterious or random, it’s just migration.
And yet many
Various portable blind concepts keep waterfowl guessing
Since time began, early hunters knew they could never run down animals of the forests or open plains, so they had to devise ways to bring game within range of their weapons. Even today, no
Ryan Rothstein: As bucks shuffle the deck, know when to play your hand
September was weird.
Compared to recent autumns, it felt seasonally cool, whereas recent years have seen consistent heat into the 80s and beyond. It was also a lot wetter than previous falls have been.
Al Lindner: A borrowed boat and some perspective on forward-facing sonar
Sometimes we put ourselves in unique situations, especially when it comes to fishing. I found myself in one of those just the other day. For a variety of reasons, I decided to sell my boat
Steve Carney: Bowhunting ground blind do’s and don’ts
Every year I get more dedicated to hunting from ground blinds during the bow season. Last season I tagged two of my three deer from ground blinds.
Hunting from a ground blind is not
For fall turkeys, find the feast, then pick a fight
To understand how to have a great fall turkey hunt, you must acknowledge the primary driver of the birds’ October behavior: food.
Spring hunts are dominated by the breeding season, but fall hunts all
Jack Ammerman: A night spent discovering Michigan’s river giants
Former professional boxer Mike Hall called and invited me on a fishing trip, asking me if I’d ever caught a flathead catfish. I laughed and told him that I’d never even seen a flathead, let
Best time to target that big buck? Don’t wait for the rut
Rut-crazed bucks may be easier to encounter, but for a specific buck, early season may be better.
There’s no doubt that when it comes to increasing your chances at a trophy buck, the rut
Kristin Ojaniemi: Story of a rare color-phase bear from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
It’s not too often you hear of a bear with fur other than black being seen or even harvested here in the Upper Peninsula, but this season a group of hound hunters in the Western
