News & Tips

News & Tips: What to Look for When Scouting Your Turkey Hunting Ground...
4,086

What to Look for When Scouting Your Turkey Hunting Ground

Know the area you'll be hunting turkey for greater success. What is the best tip I can give you to help you become a successful turkey hunter? Know the area you will be hunting them. That may sound…
News & Tips: Prepare for Turkey Season
3,314

Prepare for Turkey Season

Things to do before heading out into the turkey woods. Before you head out to the turkey woods, be sure and pattern your gun. I don't care how long you have hunted with it, you still need to pattern…
News & Tips: Best Bet for Brown Trout
62,828

Best Bet for Brown Trout

The brown trout (Salmo trutta) is possibly the most popular of all the trout species targeted by fly fishers. Be it their willingness to rise to dead-drifted dry flies or give chase to a swinging…
News & Tips: Tactics for Tagging a Turkey
2,463

Tactics for Tagging a Turkey

Rumblings of boisterous, lovesick, wild turkey gobblers are not the only raucous sounds being heard in the Ozarks turkey woods these days. Hunters have grumbled and mumbled the last few seasons about…
News & Tips: Expand Your Fishing Arsenal
3,171

Expand Your Fishing Arsenal

When you walk through the doors at one of Bass Pro Shops amazing stores, it can all be somewhat overwhelming to take in for the average person. Every department is fully stocked with the latest and…
3,029

The Growth of Fishing in 50 Years

Looking back over the past 50 years, it is amazing how much the fishing industry has changed. For starters, look at the difference in rods and reels. While the old equipment, such as the standby…
3,402

Pre-Spawn to Spawn Transition

Spring is finally here, and nothing gets fish moving and aggressively feeding like warmer, longer days. As the air temperature warms, so does the water temperature—triggering the fish to move towards…
3,188

The Key to Catching Crankbait Bass

Choosing the right lure can be a difficult task in the sport of bass fishing. With so many different baits and techniques to choose from many anglers simply don't give a certain bait the opportunity…
News & Tips: A Question of Muskie Bait Color
6,786

A Question of Muskie Bait Color

One thing you learn very early on when you live “Up North” is that winter gives you plenty of time to ponder and reflect on things you might not normally spend much time thinking about (and I am…
News & Tips: Food Plot Basics: It's All in the Dirt...
4,327

Food Plot Basics: It's All in the Dirt

Seems like everyone is planting food plots these days; and for good reason. Wildlife of all kind benefit from them and they make for great deer hunting. Food plotters spend endless hours pouring over…
News & Tips: In Praise of Scruffy Flies
2,923

In Praise of Scruffy Flies

Most fly shops would have a hard time selling this fly to the right — one of several gold-ribbed hare's ear nymphs I just finished tying. It's scruffy and not very neat. But the fact is it will catch…
News & Tips: Photography: A Valuable Tool for Outdoor Sportsmanship & Stewardship (video)...
4,611

Photography: A Valuable Tool for Outdoor Sportsmanship & Stewardship (video)

Most hunters, fishermen and other outdoorsmen will agree that while gear isn’t everything, it’s certainly important to have the right tools -- the right ammo, the right bow, the right lure, the right…