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News & Tips: Ice Fishing for Lake Trout
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Ice Fishing for Lake Trout

If you live in the northern Midwest, then the opportunities for ice fishing on Lake Superior and the surrounding inland lakes are endless. Walleye, salmon, bass and northern pike can all easily be…
News & Tips: Exercising to Improve Your Hiking Experience...
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Exercising to Improve Your Hiking Experience

A couple decades ago, my then 28-year-old body roamed hiking trails like an all-wheel drive automobile maneuvers over an icy roadway. My day job included a good dose of physical activity that kept my…
News & Tips: Walleye Require Boat Control
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Walleye Require Boat Control

Presentation is a key component when chasing walleye. If your lure or bait is not positioned at the correct angle, depth or speed, your chances for success are greatly diminished. Boat control is…
News & Tips: Miraculous Marabou: One of the Great Fly Tying Materials...
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Miraculous Marabou: One of the Great Fly Tying Materials

When I think about the most successful flies I have used over the years for smallmouth and largemouth bass, trout, pike and panfish, I realize that marabou is, in most cases, a common denominator. In…
RockyBrook Sinkers pro Charlie Evans by RockyBrook Sinkers pro Charlie Evans...
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Five Questions for Charlie Evans

The FLW Tour season is about to start. 1Source's Dave Landahl hunted down a dude with intimate knowledge of the FLW. A man so familiar with the organization he was once the CEO and now is a touring…
News & Tips: How to Dress for Ice Fishing
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How to Dress for Ice Fishing

The time between the first snowfall and the first good ice is never long enough for sportsmen who transition from late-season hunting to ice fishing. It seems you barely have time to put away your…
News & Tips: Tailing Materials for Fly Tying
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Tailing Materials for Fly Tying

Throughout the many years that I have been tying flies or teaching tying classes, I have been asked a plethora of questions regarding what types of materials I use and why. One specific question that…
News & Tips: Bow Hunting Whitetails South Texas Style!...
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Bow Hunting Whitetails South Texas Style!

  Bow hunting deer on a South Texas lease. Grant and Adam are invited to bow hunt on a South Texas lease. It's a unique experience hunting in the South Texas brush country!  Several shooter bucks…
News & Tips: College Town Winter Trouting
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College Town Winter Trouting

Centre County, Pennsylvania's Spring Creek ran low and clear when my friend Art and I crossed it last Saturday. The public access area at the Benner Springs hatchery had a few vehicles. Despite the…
News & Tips: Dead-Bait Tactics for Hardwater Pike
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Dead-Bait Tactics for Hardwater Pike

Snow-covered landscapes and frozen bodies of water have a deliberate way of changing a pike anglers' methods and routines. Gone are the oversized spinnerbaits, cranks and spoons — the familiar tools…
News & Tips: Travel Blog: Delray Beach, Florida Lakes...
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Travel Blog: Delray Beach, Florida Lakes

Captain Butch Moser has been fishing the inland lakes and canals of western Palm Beach County since the early 1980s. Prior to that, he fished saltwater off the same coast for 20 years. The basis for…
News & Tips: What to Do if You Fall Through the Ice...
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What to Do if You Fall Through the Ice

With ice fishing, snowmobiling and cold-weather hunting just around the corner, one of the most important survival skills to know is what you should do if you fall through thin ice. If you’re one of…