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Whitetails 365: December – Low Impact Hunting
My son Forest hadn’t hunted my farm in two years. The last time he hunted was on a late muzzleloader hunt that lasted only three days because of our decision to abandon the hunt and work on habitat management efforts. That was in 2012, the year I bought my current farm in Iowa. The farm needed a lot of work and after only a short time hunting we both made the conscience decision to abandon the hunt and fire up [...]

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Whitetails 365: December – Low Impact Hunting

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FEATURED FISHING ARTICLE

ICE-FISHING BAITS FOR OPEN WATER
The cool weather we’ve been feeling in recent days reminds me that it’s time to get the ice-fishing baits ready to go. However, I won’t be using them for ice-fishing just yet. Many, many years ago, probably sometime in the late 80’s or early 90’s, a group of us started using spoons that were thought of as ice-fishing baits in open water in the fall. And we caught fish! Mostly walleyes, but when we got on a school of crappies, [...]