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Decrease Risk for Lyme Disease through Good Tick Prevention
Summer is here and many families are shaking off cabin fever and spending more time in the outdoors. And with outdoor activity comes the annoyance of insects. Most outdoorsmen and women are fairly familiar with ticks, however as a carrier of Lyme disease, ticks pose much more of [...]Read more
Labette County Kansas Offers a Sportsmans Adventure
Until a couple weeks ago, I had never been to Kansas. But when I was invited to an event hosted by Labette County Tourism and the Association of Great Lakes Outdoor Writers (AGLOW) to hunt and fish in the heartland of America, I couldn’t pass up the chance. Rolling [...]Read more
For Illinois High Schools, the Future of Fishing is Here
When you think of high school sports, most people think Friday night football games under the lights or nail-biting basketball games, not fishing. But that’s beginning to change. In 2009, the Illinois High School Association officially recognized bass fishing as a school [...]Read more
A Hard Water Adventure at Lake of the Woods, Minnesota
Seven months ago, I had the opportunity to fish one of the greatest walleye fisheries in the world — Lake of the Woods, Minnesota. Now, I found myself once again heading onto the lake in pursuit of keeper walleyes. But instead of a boat, I was riding in a track-driven snow [...]Read more
IDNR Gets Helping Hand from Cub Scout Pack 459
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources and Channahon Park District recently received a helping hand, well actually a lot of helping hands. Cub Scout Pack 459 pitched in to clean up the tow path along the I & M Canal at McKinley Woods this past weekend. The boys and [...]Read more
Fishing in a Bar? Yes you can in the Igloo Ice Bar at Zippel Bay Resort
For those of you that have a tough time deciding whether to go to the bar or go fishing, well now you can have both. That’s right— fishing in a bar. On a recent trip to Lake of the Woods, Minnesota, I had the chance to visit one of the coolest bars I’ve visited in [...]Read more
Beaches of Ft. Myers and Sanibel Cure the Winter Blues
As I crossed the causeway entering Sanibel Island in Florida, the sun was just peeking over the horizon illuminating the sky with a brilliant glow of orange. Soon thereafter, I was hopping on board a saltwater flats boat for a morning of fishing on the very northern tip of [...]Read more
6 WAYS TO KEEP BUSY UNTIL SPRING
Winter gets to be old by March, even for those of us who love winter. To makes things worse, it’s challenging for the hard core outdoorsmen and women who are used to living outdoors. Turkey season is a long way off. The ice isn’t quite safe anymore for good ice fishing, and [...]Read more
How to Plan and Get the Most Out of a Destination Hunting or Fishing Trip
With the sports shows in full swing, the time is right for outdoorsmen to book that hunting or fishing trip of a lifetime. Sports shows give us outdoorsmen a slight edge – we get to “interview” our prospective guides or outfitters. However, making a choice is still a [...]Read more
NATIONAL SHOOTING SPORTS FOUNDATION — A GREAT RESOURCE FOR SHOOTERS
If you are a hunter, shooter or shooting sports enthusiast, you need to tune your radar into the National Shooting Sports Foundation. We hosted Jennifer Pearsall on the Fishing and Outdoor Radio Show recently. Jennifer is the Public Relations Director for NSSF and talked about [...]Read more
