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In the August 2026 Issue of the Iowa Sportsman
- 7 Ways to Make the Most out of Camping
- October Bowhunting in Iowa
- Fall Walleye Tips & Tricks
- Bug Bites & The Great Outdoors
- Hunting Scrapes & Rublines
- The Way to a Buck’s Heart is Through His Stomach
- August Bass Fishing
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Trolling Cranks for Paper Mouths
Trolling Cranks for Paper Mouths We troll for walleye; we troll for muskie, heck some of us even troll for channel catfish. But, whoever thinks of trolling for crappie? Trolling for crappies seems a little bit too aggressive to many of us but in fact it can be an extremely productive way to catch big […]
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Essential Turkey Hunting Gear for Success
Essential Turkey Hunting Gear: Tools for Consistent Success What gear do you need for turkey hunting?Essential turkey hunting gear includes calls (box, slate, diaphragm), a shotgun with a turkey choke, decoys, camouflage clothing, a vest, and optionally a blind for concealment. Why the Right Turkey Hunting Gear Matters Gear is something that we as hunters […]
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Time to Chase Big Boji Gills
Time to Chase Big Boji Gills Spring means open water, and for me that means the business of chasing my true passion: big bluegills. What I like about fishing here on the Iowa Great Lakes, especially the Okoboji chain of lakes, is that there is enough diversity that you can really fish bluegills non-stop moving […]
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Trail Cameras: Things You Should Be Doing
Trail Cameras: Things you should be doing but probably aren’t The trail camera is the single most important advancement in hunting whitetails in the last 20 years. No other item in your hunting tool chest can help your success more than a trail camera. In the right hands, a trail camera is incredibly powerful, but […]
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Featured Story
Big Buck Profile: The 2025 Gandy Buck
Ok, this first big buck profile is a little self-serving in that it is of a buck that I personally took this past deer season. While it is likely not the “biggest” big buck that we will profile this year it is definitely one of my most special deer ever.
Turning a Dream into Reality
As has been noted in several articles since 2023, my family and I finally put together the means to purchase our very own piece of Iowa ground. “The 32,” as we call it, has become a passion project to see if we could take an unassuming piece of real estate and harvest a mature deer from there by giving him all he needs in the way of habitat. This year was the first year that the farm would be huntable in the state in which we intended due to construction projects over the past couple of seasons.
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