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FISHING REPORT: Largemouth fishing excellent, smallmouth good at Potholes
MARDON — Largemouth bass fishing has been excellent this week. Fish top water baits early and late and have a Senk…
More thoughts about the 2020 SHOT Show
This column has established the annual SHOT Show is huge, with thousands of exhibitors, thousands of buyers and thousands of press members in attendance. Walki…
Day at the range
The SHOT Show has become an annual event for Garnet and me. We have made this trip for 25-plus years. This year the dates of SHOT were Jan. 21 through 24, a Tu…
How to make the most of the enormous SHOT Show
The SHOT Show is enormous. As reported recently: The show covered about 692,000 square feet of exhibit space. If a person walked down each aisle of the show, t…
SHOT Show impressive
It is named the SHOT Show, which stands for Shooting Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show. The show is owned and sponsored by the National Shooting Sports Foundation…
Last of the name series
Today we finish our series about animal and bird names, with more group names.
Animal and bird group names
We have been exploring the names of animal and birds for a couple of days, so it is appropriate to look at some names for a group of animals or birds. Actually…
Animal and bird names are entertaining
Animal and bird names have always been fun and entertaining to me. Of more importance, you, the reader, seem to enjoy the names, also.
Elk stew my way
The digital pressure cooker is used often at my house, but so is the slow cooker. We have several slow cookers of different sizes.
Cooking the harvest
We have been discussing outdoor wintertime activities for outdoor-minded people during the past few weeks. Today and tomorrow we examine another activity desig…
Elk stew and elk roast
Wintertime activities for outdoor-minded people include cooking the harvest.
In search of the proper load
The goal of a person, who reloads rifle ammunition for hunting, is to find the perfect load for the rifle she/he is using. Indeed, each rifle is different and,…
A time for reloading
This is the slow time of year for outdoor-minded people. As mentioned before, we have anglers polishing and sharpening hooks in their tackle boxes.
What to consider as a fly-angler
Fishing line maintenance was mentioned at the end of yesterday’s column. A couple more thoughts about making sure the fishing line you are using is up-to-date and continues to be the strength you desire.
More first-of-year ideas
Yesterday we briefly mentioned checking fishing gear as a wintertime activity. One sentence talked about polishing lures, plus replacing and sharpening hooks.
Winter, what winter?
The current weather forecast indicates we have eight days of above freezing days and four above freezing nights before us. The temperatures afterwards show tem…