The Boat, Sports & Travel Shows held throughout the upper Midwest have everything an outdoor person is looking for, including boats, tackle, guides, hunting & fishing trips and a lot more. (Contributed Photo) As 2021 draws to a close, many of us will make...
By moving a certain number of antlerless deer from the population is an important component of a sound wildlife management plan. But which does should you remove and when is the best time to do it? Why Manage Does To a large extent, deer management is doe management....
As Christmas is fast approaching with the New Year following right behind it, my family, our Team Outdoorsmen Productions members and I want to wish you all a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy, bountiful and healthy New Year. This is the time of year when we think back...
The phrase “decoy-shy ducks” is a bit of an oxymoron. After all, ducks are gregarious, preferring the company of others of their kind. Decoys are meant to present that. Yet waterfowl seem to become warier, and ducks develop a knack for distinguishing decoys from the...
Beagles aren't the biggest dogs, but when they get on the trail of a Cottontail they really sound like a much bigger dog. As Team Member Bill Christensen and I stood at the end of the corn rows, with two combines working towards us, we were ready, waiting for a...
My fishing partner and Team Outdoorsmen Productions member Larry Myhre, Sioux City, IA. Is one of those who uses a lot of old folk wisdom. One of these is the old saying that goes something like this: "Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught.", Larry...
You don’t need to be an expert to introduce others to the outdoors, you need to spend some time with non-anglers and non-hunters, giving them the opportunity to get into the outdoors. (Contributed Photo) As I become more “mature", I find that being in the outdoors...
Everybody who knows me (well) recognizes my passion for managing wildlife, especially whitetails. But they also know my enthusiasm for hunting them…especially whitetails. For many, if not most of us gamekeepers (like you, or I), “hunting” whitetails was the “birth” of...