There are lots of resources on the Internet these days promoting hunting, fishing and the outdoors in general…but today I would like to focus on a few that I personally find quite interesting. Some of these sites I check on a daily basis…others…well, not quite so often. Still, each of the sites I’m about to [...]
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When it comes to mosquitoes I’m sure that we all have horror stories we can relate. For me what immediately comes to mind is a time when I was muskie fishing in northern Minnesota one early August evening. It was as if somebody flipped the proverbial switch and the bite was on…except our concern this [...]
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It’s not too often the news seems to be filled with weird stories about nature, but certainly the past few days have seen some interesting developments regarding animals reported both locally and around the world. Take a look: TIGERS ATTACK MINNEAPOLIS WOMAN It seems about 35 miles away from where I live this morning a [...]
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Several years ago I started taking vitamins quite simply because I don’t always eat right. Doing something as easy as popping a vitamin with a few other supplements each day helps ensure that my body gets the nutrition it needs even when I don’t always put the proper food stuffs in my mouth. I do [...]
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Back about twenty years ago when I was actively an instructor of Advanced Hunter Education for the Minnesota DNR, I soon learned how fascinated sportsmen were with fire. I’m not sure if it’s some natural urge that dates back to prehistoric man, but there’s no doubt about it men like to play with fire. One [...]
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WOODSMAN: A man who works or lives in the woods and possesses skill and experience in matters relating to the woods; as in hunting, fishing, or camping. It never ceases to amaze me how many sportsman are not very woods savvy. Example: If you were sitting at the base of a tree turkey hunting this [...]
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There’s a phenomenon each spring that I suspect is quite regional in interest, yet to serious outdoorsmen it is but another event that heralds in the spring season. It’s the annual “smelt run” where this widely used bait fish makes the trek up rivers and tributaries of the various Great Lakes for the purpose of [...]
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Those of us in the upper Midwest are somewhat unique in that our fishing seasons generally do not extend all year long. In fact, walleye, which is the most desired species among the greatest number of fishermen, is off limits in many waters for a period…thus giving us the chance to have our annual “fishing [...]
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If you’re the average sportsman who enjoys picking up an occasional hunting or fishing magazine you likely haven’t noticed it. If you have a favorite outdoors newspaper writer who has been a staple at the publication for years…maybe you haven’t noticed it here, either. Even if you tune in weekly to some outdoors radio or [...]
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“ Your woodlot is, in fact, a historical document that faithfully records your personal philosophy. Let it tell a story of tolerance toward living things, and of skill in the greatest arts: how to use the earth without making it ugly.” ~Aldo Leopold (radio address to Wisconsin farmers, 1937) Have you planted a tree [...]
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