News & Tips

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Off-Season Crankbait Maintenance

By the end of a fishing season, it’s a pretty good bet that your crankbait boxes are in need of some serious attention. Sorting the baits according to style, depth range and color will ensure you’ll…
News & Tips: The Yucatan Loop Tarpon Adventure
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The Yucatan Loop Tarpon Adventure

If you draw a line straight, West to East, across the Yucatan Peninsula, about halfway down the map, you would connect Campeche on the West with Ascension Bay on the East. Cpt. Miguel Encalada now…
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Catch & Release Issues for Ice Fishing

Anyone who knows me understands that one of my true passions when it comes to the sport of muskie fishing is teaching the virtues of catch and release. While I have covered this topic up one side and…
News & Tips: Evolution of a Hunter
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Evolution of a Hunter

I would have never thought that on Dec. 26, of all days, I would come face to face with my nemesis. The buck I'd been hunting for the last 90 days shows up at one o’clock in the afternoon, broadside…
News & Tips: REMOVED - Headwaters for Prespawn Bass...
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REMOVED - Headwaters for Prespawn Bass

Catching bass during the prespawn period is often a hit-or-miss proposition. One day they're there, the next they're not. Bass enter a period of stress and instability as winter changes to spring,…
News & Tips: The Well-Dressed Angler
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The Well-Dressed Angler

Right about now, northern anglers like myself are scrambling. We're digging through bins in the basement, shed and garage. We're flipping through catalogues and browsing websites. We're trying to…
Aqua-Vu Micro leads the way to historic season on ice...
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Anglers Credit Underwater Cameras for Championship

Anglers Credit Underwater Cameras for both NAIFC Championship and Team of the Year TitlesCrosslake, MN - What would you call it if the same angling team won the National Championship, plus another…
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What Fishing Line Should I Use?

I’ve long heard this question, and there is so much controversy about what line to use with what lure. The best answer to that is what you are comfortable with. There is a rule of thumb that I go by…
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Channel Bass

Channel bass -- or red fish, as we like to call them -- offer the most exciting saltwater fishing to be had from the Texas Coast all the way around the horn to Maryland. There is nothing that can…
News & Tips: Unraveling Mysteries of Wing Shooting
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Unraveling Mysteries of Wing Shooting

As the bird reached its cruising altitude, my finger slapped the trigger — I felt the recoil on my shoulder and I watched as the wad passed harmlessly behind the clay pigeon. Ten more yards and the…
News & Tips: Time for Smallmouths
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Time for Smallmouths

It's mid-March. There's snow on the ground as well as the mention of more in the weather forecast in the northeast. Winter seems reluctant to give way to spring here in western Pennsylvania. But it…
News & Tips: Think Spring, Think Food Plots
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Think Spring, Think Food Plots

With spring on its way it's time to begin thinking about planting food plots. Food plots provide deer and other wildlife with excellent nutrition and lots of it. Most wildlife experts would like to…