A Beginner’s Guide to Ice Fishing

The dead of winter can be a dreary time for many sportsmen. Deer season and duck season are behind us, the spring turkey won’t be on our minds for a few more months, and our favorite lakes are frozen over. Frozen fishing spots may be a bust for casting senkos,...

Florida: Home of the Endless Deer Season

White-tailed deer are an American sportsmen’s bread and butter. They are what most of us learn to hunt and what we gauge universally as trophy animals. We hunt them nationwide, from running dogs in the southern swamps to snow-tracking bucks in the northern...

Dear Santa, Please Bring Anything Sitka

At one point or another as a kid, we all saw something we wanted for Christmas and excitedly rushed home to pen a letter to the jolly guy in red. While many of us moved away from asking for Christmas gifts as we got older (and hobbies switched from Legos and dolls to...

How to Skin a Cat

Summers mean fishing. While many fishermen will think about bass and crappie in the sun, the warm summer nights belong to the catfish. The US is home to several species of catfish, each with its unique habits and habitat. While the old Zebco 33 with a chicken liver...