Crankbaits have been around forever. Some look like a minnow while others resemble a frog, crawdad or other aquatic species. Then there are those that do not look like anything that I have ever seen. Most anglers are familiar with crankbaits, for those of...
Paddlefish, a prehistoric looking fish whose skeleton has few bones, only a cartilage running from their head to their tail. Unlike other fish with scales, the paddlefish is smooth-skinned, with a shark-like body and an elongated, paddle-like snout, which...
Don't Bring The Gun To Your Shoulder When you bring the gun to your shoulder, you tend to throw it up to your shoulder and then throw your head down to the gun. When you do that, you cock your eyes and lose the depth perception needed to make the shot. The...
You have to feel it, the air, the cool brisk temperatures and the breeze that will soon bring the cold weather our way. My old hunting dog, “Mo” knew right away that it was here; he had a little more bounce in his step when I let...
I have always been somewhat of a sports enthusiast. Competing in about every sport a person can imagine. In grade school, it was track, baseball, and football, in high school track and football and once I moved to Nebraska it was softball. I no...
The sun was beginning to makes its decent into the western sky as I pulled into the field where we would park our pickups on opening day of the Nebraska dove season. We had planned this hunt later in the day as the hours from about five...
It is hard to believe that the summer is gone and we are heading into the fall, it seems like just a week or so ago, that school was out and summer had just begun. Well, it is that time of the year, the time our kids are back to school, temperatures...
With dove season just around the corner, it's not a bad idea to keep these 10 dove hunting etiquette tips on your mind. Don’t race to the field and hog the best spots. Make sure the older shooters have access to shade first. If the birds are flying,...