Tips & Features
Innovative way to display gobbler trophies by incorporating ‘turkey jewels’
After seeing several posts and photos of “turkey jewels” – which are the gizzard stones from harvested gobblers – I thought these were another item to add to the fan, beard and spurs. So I
Squirrel hunting is a stepping stone to outdoors
Squirrel season is here in Ohio and many other states, and frankly my son and I couldn’t be more excited.
Sadly, though, you don’t see many people getting excited over squirrel hunting anymore.
Stonecats are the best river bass bait out there
Legendary rocker Ozzy Osbourne, tragically, is dead, but I know how I’m going to honor his memory this fall.
I’ll press in my earbuds, put on “Ironman,” or some other Black Sabbath standard, and
Michigan’s Dathon Skelton: A decoy carver extraordinaire
Dathon Skelton says working gunning decoys tend to have simpler paint schemes and less detail. He has branched out from carving duck decoys to carving more songbirds. Regardless, he says carving is essential, but painting
Steve Piatt: How good was the fishing? The hands tell the story
Undertake any weeklong fishing trip and you’ll undoubtedly return home with plenty of pictures. After all, you’re fishing all week, every day. You should be able to catch fish in a bathtub on that schedule.
Attention to detail – video
Examples include the water clarity and temperature, structural locations, weed growth and the depth where fish may be at, cast retrieve and trolling speed, to name a few.
Persistence, big bucktails, and the right window can turn September into trophy muskie season
Muskie – the fish of 10,000 casts. With a pseudonym as such, one can only assume that it’s difficult to catch. In fact, they’re often revered as the most challenging fish to catch in freshwater.
Early deer season is often all about acorns, but you have to figure out how to hunt the favored forage
Opening-week strategies for bowhunting deer hunters often center on ag fields and food plots. Whether that’s posting up over a sea of soybeans or on half an acre of clover planted just for the deer,
Bob Gwizdz: A reminder that fishing is not rocket science
I got an email from my buddy Jeff Greene recently. He said he’d just read my column on fishing the Hex hatch – in which I lamented that most of my fishing buddies were wimping
