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Strategic Rooster Hunting

Strategic Rooster Hunting By Kent Boucher If I was asked to identify my greatest weaknesses I would be able to compile an extensive list within a moment, and one item on that list would be grocery shopping. I walk into the store, forget to grab a cart and then begin wandering aimlessly down the aisles […]

Back To The Whitetail Basics – Podcast

Ways to Catch Summer Catfish on the River

Ways to Catch Summer Catfish on the River By Brad Durick Catching catfish on the surface looks pretty easy and it is. One of the beautiful things about catfishing in the 21st century is it can be as simple or as difficult as you want it to be. Ways to catch catfish are many. In […]

Iowa Trout Grand Slam – Podcast

The Other Masked Bandit: The Badger

The Other Masked Bandit: The Badger I was sitting on the phones at work one day getting bored with no one answering the phone and having read every trapper magazine and book I could get my hands on, I got to thinking about writing some kind of article. But what could I write about that […]

Turkey Preparation: What you Should Be Doing Now

Turkey Preparation: What you Should Be Doing Now By Billy Pryor If you are a turkey hunter then you probably already know that spring turkey hunting can be completely different than fall turkey hunting, but the fundamentals to prepare for either are going to be the same. Like any hunting, the key to success is […]

The Mighty Mississippi River – Podcast

Iowa’s Trinity of Trout

It’s often said that good things come in threes. Whoever established that had to have trout fished in Iowa’s trout country because that number certainly has some significance when we’re talking about Iowa trout. One of the most obvious trinities is the three species of trout; brook trout, brown trout, and rainbow trout that are […]

Iowa Coyotes: Inside the Numbers

I hadn’t felt the cold wind sting my face in quite some time like it did that February day this last winter. My calling partner Mark and I joked that we must be the only foolhardy pair of coyote hunters actually trying to coax a coyote to us in the whole state in weather like […]