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Mastering Summer Catfish

Iowa Sportsman July 2025

This Issue Brings You:

  • Mastering Summer Catfish
  • Fishing Iowa: Iowa Hot Spots
  • Do It Yourself – Iowa Kill Plots
  • Introducing Youth to Shooting Sports
  • Whitetails 365 – Drought, Deer & Looming Threat of EHD
  • County Spotlight: Iowa Fishing Destinations
  • Blind Buyers Guide: Clear Sight Hunting Blinds

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Tips on Shooting a Buck Without all the Extra Gear

Tips on Shooting a Buck Without all the Extra Gear I have rattled in bucks during the rut, I have decoyed bucks during the rut, and I have used scents and lures to bring bucks in close during the rut. I have had good success with those tactics and use them quite regularly during the […]

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5 Go To Softbaits For Bass

5 Go To Softbaits For Bass By Todd Reed  The world of bass fishing is one that is hard to keep up with at times.  Lure companies and professional fishermen are always coming up with something new to trick bass into biting.  By far, soft baits, or plastics outnumber all other types of baits that […]

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Adding Sweeteners to Food Plots

Adding Sweeteners to Food Plots: Whitetails 365

Adding Sweeteners to Food Plots: Whitetails 365 I don’t know that I have a single stand placed for archery hunting that is without some kind of what I call a sweetener. This might be unimpressive if I had only one or two, but I have dozens of stands across five different farms that I plan […]

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Bait Rigs that Catch Fish

Bait Rigs that Catch Fish If you were to go out and ask a dozen anglers what their favorite live bait rig is for any number of species you’ll likely get a dozen different answers. Now it may not be a dozen different baits, but certainly a variety of ways to rig those said baits. […]

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Featured Story

10 Killer Big Buck Bow Hunting Ambushes

Why do top notch hunters shoot quality mature deer year after year? Sure they scout, don’t shoot young bucks, maintain their land, pay attention to the wind, plant food plots, are in big buck country, ect. Yes all of those and many more reasons can attribute to better chances of shooting bigger bucks consistently. However do you know the most important reason why people shoot big deer year after year? Because they place their stands in locations where big bucks like to frequent…it really is that simple. They are in the right place at the right time. You will never consistently shoot mature deer if you are not putting your tree stands in the proper locations.

Whitetails are creatures of habit and instinct, they do everything for a purpose and that is actually a good thing for us hunters. If we know what they like to do, what they don’t like to do, and how they navigate their day then we can key in on certain geographical locations on our properties and ambush an unsuspecting bruiser.

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