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The Iowa Sportsman, Pest Control, Insects

Bugs, Bites, and the Great Outdoors: Surviving Iowa’s Summer Pests

Bugs, Bites, and the Great Outdoors: Surviving Iowa’s Summer Pests Summer in Iowa is one of the best times of the year to be outdoors. Anglers are chasing bass and bluegills, campers are filling state parks, and hunters are busy checking trail cameras, improving habitat, and preparing food plots for the fall. Unfortunately, we’re not […]

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The Iowa Sportsman, Scrapes, Rubs, Rublines, Deer Pee, Deer Lure, Bucks, How to Make a Scrape

Hunting Scrapes and Rublines

Hunting Scrapes and Rublines The first week of October had arrived, bringing cool air and the anticipation of promising deer movement with the cold front. I had spent much of September checking trail cameras and scouting deer movement. One thing kept standing out to me, a series of fresh rubs along a standing cornfield. Every […]

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The Way to a Buck’s Heart Is Through His Stomach

The Way to a Buck’s Heart Is Through His Stomach ​By Kent Boucher ​A book every American should read is “A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca” by Andrés Reséndez. The book is a telling of the recorded experiences of the famous conquistador Cabeza de Vaca, who wandered the American south […]

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August Bass Fishing, topwater bass fishing

August Bass Fishing

August Bass Fishing Of all of the methods that anglers use in chasing after and landing bass, having one of these feisty fish explode on a topwater bait is one of my all-time favorites. In my early years of bass fishing and learning to catch them, topwater wasn’t part of my arsenal. As it turned […]

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