Building a Foundation for the Field
Building a Foundation for the Field Anymore, “basic” seems to have a bad rap. It isn’t glamorous. It doesn’t make the highlight reels. It’s often the thing we ignore, rush, or cheat. It seems lame. With a clearer perspective, we can see the value of “basic”. It’s what brings the glam to glamorous. It’s the […]
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Ice-Out River Walleyes
Ice-Out River Walleyes After the extremely mild winter we’ve had here in Iowa this year, I think it would be safe to say many of us ice fishermen feel like we were robbed of some time. Here in NW Iowa, it wasn’t horrible, but at the time of this writing, I’m pretty confident that southern […]
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The Ice-Out Frenzy: Iowa’s Best Kept Catfish Secret
The Ice-Out Frenzy: Iowa’s Best Kept Catfish Secret In Iowa, March catfishing is a legendary “ice-out” tradition that brings some of the fastest action you’ll see all year. Even though some fishermen think you need the sweltering heat of a June summer to catch cats, the real “addicts” and die-hards know that early spring is […]
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Puppy Nutrition: What you need to Know
Puppy Nutrition Oxford defines nutrition as “the process of providing or obtaining the food necessary for health and growth.” As a dog breeder, I divide puppy nutrition into phases (gestation, milk-only, weaning, and post-weaning). During each phase, a puppy has different nutritional needs and/or nutrition methods. GESTATION It might go without saying, but it’s important […]
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Tactics for Fall Channel Catfish
Tactics for Fall Channel Catfish It seems that the summers fly by faster each and every year and this summer was the fastest of them all. Now as we look ahead we are entering the fourth quarter, the eighth inning so to speak. The good news is, now could be the best time to land […]
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Gundog Equipment and Accessories
Gundog Equipment and Accessories Take the title of this article with a grain of salt. Just because I’m about to share equipment and accessories that I believe are “must haves”, doesn’t mean you can’t be a responsible and productive gun dog owner if you don’t have most, if not all of them. I’m going to […]
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How to Pick a Hunting Blind
How to Pick a Hunting Blind If you’re like me, you started hunting with homemade wooden stands, sometimes even just a platform in the Y of a tree. Since then, we saw ladder stands, hang-on stands with climbing sticks, and then pop-up blinds followed by tower blinds. When it comes to the age-old debate of […]
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Top 10 Mistakes That Will Cost You Ducks
Top 10 Mistakes That Will Cost You Ducks When you look at figures and statistics regarding how many ducks the average duck hunter kills in a season you might be surprised. I am willing to bet the numbers are much lower than many of you would suspect. Why? Because hunting waterfowl successfully is difficult to […]
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Waterfowl Calling 101
Time to Learn: Waterfowl Calling 101 Waterfowl hunting is a science. Collectively there are so many factors that play into your level of success in the field and it takes years to even begin to understand it all. I started hunting ducks and geese at an older age than most. At twenty years old, I […]
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Catfishing on Ice
Catfishing on Ice I’ve been fortunate enough to catch channel catfish through the ice on numerous occasions throughout the years. Most of these came from farm ponds or city ponds, although a few have come from public lakes. If you can find them, they really aren’t that difficult to entice into biting. Finding them can […]
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