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rare chance to see whats
on the cutting edge, for
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great spots to bird hunt. I
think he owes me a drink
the next time I see him!
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perspectives on the
scene while keeping the
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work has appeared in F&S
since 2004. A muskie and
walleye angler, Schneider
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WHY AN I NCREASE I N THE COST OF THE FEDERAL DUCK STAMP I S A BARGAI N
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our generation of sportsmen can make sure were doing our part.
In the spring of 1934, the country was in the middle of the Great De-
pression and the American prairies were suffering under a terrible drought. The Dust
Bowl, as it came to be known, caused massive losses of wetland habitat, and ducks and
waterfowl hunters were feeling the effects.
Many Americans were focused on just putting food on the table, yet sportsmen took a
longer view, realizing that if they werent going to step up and do something, we could
lose ducks and duck hunting forever. Hunter-conservationists like artist Ding Darling
and Ray P. Holland, a former game warden and the editor of FIELD & STREAM, led them.
In this very space, Holland advocated for the duck stamp, writing: Will Congress pass
the Duck Stamp Bill? I believe that any and every duck shooter is willing to give a dollar
for ducks. The one-dollar Federal duck stamp plan, to secure money to care for and in-
crease wild ducks and geese, has the endorsement of all those who will be called upon to
put up the cash. Holland was right. Despite the severe economic hardship that most
Americans were facing at that time, sportsmen pushed to voluntarily tax themselves. The
results have been extraordinary. Since its enactment, duck-stamp sales have funded the
conservation of more than 6 million acres of waterfowl habitat across the country.
The parallels between then and now are striking. Were also in the middle of tough
times, with a deep recession and the greatest loss of wetlands since those dark days of the
Dust Bowl. But its been 23 years since the price of the duck stamp was last raised to its
current fee, $15. Ask yourself this: Are we paying the same price for land in the prairies, for
duck leases, or even for shotgun shells as we were in 1998? In its 80-year history, the
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We nicknamed this 3-year-old gobbler Whitey, for the white markings on two tail feathers in the cen-
ter of his fan, says photographer Tom Martineau, who joined hunter Jeff Lobitz on an 80-acre farma
rare large swath of private land in the archery-only Minneapolis suburbsfor the May 2013 gobbler
season. Jeff and I had the right setup for taking photos: our backs to the morning sun, side by side in
pop-up blinds uphill from the treeline, where we knew some turkeys were roosted. If wed been there
just to hunt, wed have set up right underneath them. They gobbled in the roost, flew down, and kept
getting louder and louder as they headed straight for our decoysit was a turkey hunters dream.
Whitey was the first to crest the hill into the plowed cornfield, followed by four toms, three jakes, and a
few hens. I kept pressing the shutter as he threw his head out in full strut. When the snood starts flap-
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Thanks to Bill Heavey for ex-
pressing what I hope many of us
feel about hunting in Faced
With an Anti (A Sportsmans
Life, March 2014). I have strug-
gled for years to put into words
why I hunt and trap without
sounding like the cretin that the
anti crowd makes me out to be.
Thad Davis, via e-mail
At the age of 74, I totally agree
with Heaveys description of the
hunt and emotions resulting
from a kill. At the age of 14,
when I killed my first deer or
brought home a pheasant, I was
praised because I had made a
significant contribution of food
to our family of nine. Bringing
game home was appreciated.
Now it is far more satisfying just
to be in the woods hunting with
buddies. I hope to be able to
continue to do that for a while,
whether I kill something or not.
I have, on occasion, let game go
by to continue my time out there,
but I still enjoy taking a buck,
duck, or turkey when it happens.
Glen Venable, Gaines, Mich.
We mature and responsible
hunters should always be look-
ing for positive ways to help deal
reasonably with the antihunter
crowd. Bills article addressed
one strategy wonderfully, but
even he admitted to having a few
other things he would have liked
to say. Given the time and place
of potential conflict, it sounded
like he took the higher road.
Personally, I have grown tired
of fighting the emotionally
driven animal-rights extremists,
and these days I spend more
time and energy educating will-
ing nonhunters. For the most
part, they do want to hear both
sides, will accept vital biological
wildlife data, and often want to
experience the hunt to make a
fair and impartial decision for
themselves. I fervently enjoy
harvesting fish and wild game,
and I will never apologize to
anybody for that.
J.W. Kunkle, Placerville, Calif.
Usually I enjoy reading Bill
Heaveys last-page columns, but
his response to an antihunter re-
ally ticked me off. The first win-
ter I was married to my husband,
he had been laid off from work
and we had a newborn baby.
The venison that he brought
home from hunting was the only
thing that we had in our freezer.
Some people dont know what
its like to choose between food
and utilities. So heres a different
explanation: Not all hunting is
for sport. Some of us hunt to
survive.
Trisha Goodrich, Edinburg, Pa.
Heavey has given me a method
for talking to my in-laws who
harp on me for hunting
Bambiand explaining that I
do not go out for the kill, but for
the thrill. It would be nice to
convince them that hunting is
not as evil, or easy, as they like
to think, and help them under-
stand what it is that drives me to
continue my pursuit.
Justin Tucker, via e-mail
Years ago, I clipped a column
from F&S titled In Defense of
Outdoorsmen, by William G.
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Tapply. I still have it to this day. I did that
so I too could eloquently explain to anti-
hunters the allure of the outdoors. Thanks,
Bill Heavey, for saying what the majority of
the hunting fraternity feels.
Henry Bosco, Totowa, N.J.
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CLOSER CALL
While I welcome news about shotshell in-
novations and improvements, I would ask
you not to encourage hunters to shoot long
range at turkeys. Ive taken a few on public
and private lands that were peppered with
old shot. Because of the industrys push for
long-range ammo years ago, waterfowl
hunting has gone down the same road.
Wheres the passion to become a skilled
hunter and take a tom up close? Or make a
clean kill on ducks and geese over decoys? I
feel our hunting heritage suffers when we
become shooters rather than skilled hunters.
W.S. Westlake, via e-mail
. 338 KICK AND THREE-CHORD COUNTRY
I enjoyed this edition of Ask Petzal. I found
out 12 years ago that if you can handle the
recoil on a 12-gauge slug gun, you can han-
dle the recoil of the .338 Win. Mag. Mine
was a Ruger 77 Mk II, and what a differ-
ence it has made on my elk hunts.
And Petzals thoughts on the current state
of country music are on the money. Two
things really bother me on that subject: (1)
Except for George Strait and Reba McEn-
tire, the country stations rarely play anyone
over the age of 35; and (2) It amazes me that
during any awards show, todays country
stars get up in front of their peers and a na-
tional TV audience in jeans with holes in
them. Forty years ago, the men wore suits
and ties and the women wore beautiful
gowns, probably because they were proud
to have raised themselves out of poverty.
Lee Trunnell, via e-mail
Country music is alive and well. It just takes
effort to discover it. Country-music radio is a
different story. Radio has been dead and
buried for 20 years. The days when you
could hop in your car and discover a new fa-
vorite are long gone, but streaming online ra-
dio, a few Google searches, or a night at your
favorite honky-tonk can still help you find
great new renditions of that tried-and-true
country formula: three chords and the truth.
Ryan Blizzard, via e-mail
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NOW THATS A FLY
The art, the science, and the incredible
magnitude of the streamer patterns that
flyfishermen tie to fool giant muskellunge
By Joe Cermele
FISHING ASK PETZAL IN SEASON THIS JUST IN HEROES OF CONSERVATION RIFLES
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NEWS AND
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F YOU TIE your own trout flies, the operation probably goes
something like this: Whip up a dozen bugs the night before a
trip, lose half the next day, repeat. If youre part of the cult of
flyfishermen who chase muskies, however, tying a single fly is a labor
of love, and for many, the result is as special to its creator as the goliath
muskie thats supposed to eat it.
Some of these fishermen routinely foolor at least get follows
fromwhat is arguably the pickiest predator that swims, so its fair to
say that more thought, trial, error, and devotion go into tying flies for
muskies than for any other fish. Understanding the qualities that
make these muskie flies productive can help you tie more effective
streamers for any species.
Big Love
Gabe Schubert tying
muskie streamers at
Bob Mitchells Fly
Shop in Lake Elmo,
Minn.
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TROPHY BUCKTAILS
Minnesotan Gabe Schubert
landed his first muskie on the
fly in 1994 at age 14 while casting for
smallmouth bass. It was an incidental
catch but provided the motivation for
Schubert to begin creating bigger flies
and start targeting big toothies, as
he calls them. His personal-best
muskie now measures 49 inches, and
his fliesmassive concoctions of
bucktail, saddle feathers, and Flasha-
bouare so beautifully crafted, they
were featured in a Stillwater, Minn.,
art show in 2013. While flattered,
Schubert purposely priced the flies in-
sanely high so no one would buy them.
These are, after all, his babies.
You get attached to certain flies.
They have sentimental value, he says.
Ill spend hours scheming out a de-
sign. With some of my 16-inch doubles,
Ill tie in one section, then keep holding
up different colors of bucktail to figure
out what I like. Sometimes Ill need to
think on it, so one fly could take days.
Although Schubert may be uncer-
tain about color schemes when he ini-
tially sits down at the vise to begin a
new fly, he is sure of how the fly needs
to behave. A long tail acts as a stabiliz-
ing rudder, and a big round head of
spun deer hair causes the fly to jack-
knife on the pause, giving following
muskies a nice side-profile view. If he
wants a fly to glide and walk smoothly,
so he can fish it like a jerkbait, hell
skip the bun head and taper the nose
down to a point. First and foremost,
the action needs to pique the fishs cu-
riosity, says Schubert. Then the fly
any less effective. His signature tie, the
Esoxulator, has hooked about 50
muskies for himself and clients since its
invention in 2004. With a huge head
made of stacked Fuzzy Fiber, a jointed
body, and an overall length of nearly 15
inches, the Esoxulator pushes a tremen-
dous amount of water and displays a full
3D profile from any angletwo fea-
tures both Wascher and Schubert be-
lieve are key to a productive streamer.
I want the fly to do all the work, not
the rod, says Wascher, who has been
addicted to the sport ever since a muskie
followed his fly the very first time he
tried flyfishing for the species, 16 years
ago. I dont want to have to use my
wrist to make a fly dance. On a straight
retrieve, the Esoxulator has great tail ac-
tion and the large head creates great
pulsation in the body. It seems to get
the attention of neutral fish.
Spending hours or days at the vise
and using an entire bucktail to create
one fly may seem extreme, but its the
type of dedication thats necessary to
catch muskies on a 10- or 12-weight rod
in the first place. Schubert finds far
more reward in fooling one muskie
with a streamer than 10 with conven-
tional gear, and that reward is amplified
by the work that goes into his patterns.
Sometimes you pull a fly out of the
vise and you just know its a winner,
Schubert says. Its a good feeling.
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You can sit in on one of Schuberts tying
seminars at Bob Mitchells Fly Shop
(bob mitchells fly shop.com) in Lake
Elmo, Minn. See the website for dates.
Otherwise, all the fly-shop staffers tie
muskie patterns and can answer any
questions about materials or rigging up.
just needs to be big enough to encour-
age a muskie to actually go after it.
WATER WORKS
The major difference between Schubert
and Steven Wascher, a former guide on
New Yorks Lake Chautauqua, is that
Wascher has fully embraced synthetic
materials, which allow him to tie flies
faster and more affordably. That does
not mean, however, that his patterns are
When youre flyfishing for muskies and pike, a strip-strike is a must, be-
cause these wide-jawed fish often spit flies on a lift-up hookset. Thats
why many anglers who target these species keep their rod tips in the
water during the retrieve. When a fish hits, the taut line helps set the
hook into its bony mouth and may thwart any instinctive lifting of the
rod. The method also works well for any fish with a mouth positioned
under the head, such as bonefish and redfish. Even if your target doesnt
require a strip-strike, such as a trout or bass, keeping the tip in the wa-
ter when working a streamer will help you maintain better contact with
the fly and detect subtle takes more easily. J.C.
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19 I l l us t rat i on by MARK MATCHO
Since Mikhail Kalashnikovs passing, Ive
read that the AK-47 is the best weapon of
its type and that some U.S. soldiers used
them in place of their M16s. True?
THOMAS RENFRO, BARLETT, TENN.
from my rifle will shoot better
for me because they are per-
fectly fitted to my gun?
MICHAEL OBOYLE, SHAWANO, WIS.
A:
Reloads assembled from cases
fired in your rifle will give you a
better fit than unfired brass, but not
necessarily a perfect one, because
there will be some differences in
shape and dimensions between your
barrels chamber and your resizing
die. Generally, its a minor factor.
Years ago I stopped neck-sizing my
cases, which would give me a perfect
fit, and instead started full-length-
sizing them, which provided a less-
than-perfect fit but ensured that the
cases would cycle without hanging
up. If there was any accuracy loss, I
couldnt find it.
Q:
I am a crusty, funny- looking,
over-the-hill has-been who
is 100 percent certain he is the
smartest man in every room. Im
looking for a job. What line of
work do you recommend for me?
CRAIG HEDD, MAPLEWOOD, MICH.
A:
I would say that you were ideal
for my job, but its taken. How-
ever, I think you have every qualifica-
tion for a U.S. senator, and a multi-
term one at that.
Q:
What is the most impressive
feat of marksmanship you
have ever witnessed?
GERALD BEARD, SILVERTON, ORE.
A:
In 1973, at a pigeon shoot, then
F&S Shooting editor Bob Brister
killed a swooping sky rat at 97 yards
(we paced it off) with a 12-gauge shot-
gun. When he was accused of being
lucky, he did it again.
FS
A:
In terms of widespread use,
casualties inflicted, longevity,
number of rifles produced, influence
on firearms design in general, and
just about any other indicator you
can come up with, the AK-47 is in a
walk the most successful military rifle
of all time. In Vietnam, during the
disastrous introduction of the M16,
in which the gun jammed and broke
on a more or less regular basis, there
were numerous instances of Ameri-
can soldiers using AKs when their
M16s failed.
Q:
I recently saw a photo of
you in which you appeared
well dressed and kindly. Are you
worried this could hurt your
image?
HAROLD HARPSTER,
PENNSYLVANIA FURNACE, PA.
A:
I am not worried. Although I am
well dressed, the kindly part is an
act. Ask anyone who knows me.
Q:
When hunting deer, I tend to
pull the trigger too quickly
when Ive got my eye in the
scope. It hasnt cost me, but still,
do you have any remedies?
JAKE MORRIS, TEMPLE, GA.
A:
Your priorities are backward. If
more people trained themselves
to pull the trigger fast when they have
a good sight picture, there would be a
lot more dead animals on the ground.
No surprise it hasnt cost you.
Q:
Is it true that reloads made
with cases previously fired
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GOT A QUESTION FOR OUR RIFLES EDITOR? Send it to askpetzal@fieldandstream.com. We cannot guarantee polite answers to all questions.
David E.
Petzal
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your
questions
about guns,
shooting,
hunting,
and life
ASK PE TZ AL
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I
M FOUR DAYS LATE, but its the best I can do. Every spring I plan to fish the
full moon of May, the peak of a magical week when spawning bluegills simply cant
keep their mouths shut. Popping bugs and sinking ants, doves cooing in the pines,
damselflies dippingflyfishing for bedding bream is one of those annual gotta-dos. When
its on, you can hardly make a cast without hooking up. Even when its slow, youre going
home with fish enough for a small family fry.
And this year theres a bonus: I recently stumbled across my ancient float tube and fins,
wadded up in a dank corner of the basement, behind the kitty litter box and a plastic tote
of emergency supplies that dated to the Y2K scare. Skimmed over with cobwebs, the float
tubes outer fabric was a bit mildewed but seemed sound enough. The inner tube, though,
was honeycombed with surface rot. It took a serious patch job of rubber cement and
I N SE ASON
PARTY ON THE FARM POND
Its the most fun you can have with a fly rod
this monthcatch bedding bluegills from
a float tube or pontoon boat By T. Edward Nickens
Gorilla tape before it held air over-
night, but after that I was set. Id spent
some fine spring hours in that old
tube, pulling in bluegills, redbreasts,
and the occasional shellcracker with
its clam-cracking gullet. I cant imag-
ine why Ive gone so long without
shipping off.
Oh, yeah. Life.
Its become harder to find the time
for such a simple pleasure. So I drive
to a buddys farm pond, four days of
the full moon late but early enough for
sunrise. I slip into the water and hold
tight to the bank at first, fingers
crossed. Not a single bubble hisses out
of the tube. I flutter-kick for the south
bank, hoping there is still time to catch
some of that old bluegill magic.
GET YOUR KICKS
One, two, three, four Dont move the
bug. You gotta count to 10. Six, seven
Wait for it. Wait for it. Eight, nine I
cant take this. Im gonna twitch
Blurp. There he is!
It takes me a while to get my cross-
hairs on the fish. I work a small cove
first, but the fish are not where I
thought they would bein the shal-
lows near the sunny bank where the
water trickles in from the hardwoods.
Kicking around the pond, I smell the
bream bedsan oily musk, strawber-
ries mashed up with fish slime. The
cream-colored craters are like elephant
tracks in the shallows. These fish are
cluster-bedded in front of a grassy
fringe of green reeds, beside a blown-
down pine where a kingfisher perches.
We eye each other, friendly competi-
tors. I work the outside edges first, fan-
casting left to right, trying to pick off
the big females that hang back from the
beds. (See p. 36 for spawning- bluegill
tactics in big water.)
Now another bluegill smacks the
popping bug with a slashing strike, its
blue-black back and dorsal fin arcing
like a porpoise. I strip in a bit of slack
and let the rod work. The float tube
spins away from the bank as the blue-
gill heads for deep water, and I cant
help but laugh out loud. When the
bite is on in a bluegill pond, it is cast
after cast. I go six for six before the
commotion puts the fish down and the
bite flattens out, but thats no problem.
A few flutter kicks take me to new
water, new bream beds, new fish that,
for a few blissful days in May, just
cant help themselves.
Im as happy to be back in this old
float tube as anything. Its such a pe-
High & Mighty
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to launch and
great on ponds.
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culiar sensation: being in the water,
but not really, dry as toast in
stocking-foot waders. Years ago I
used to sneak the float tube into a
state park pond that was posted
against swimming and boating, and
confound the rangers that whistled
me over for a talking-to.
No, sir, Im not swimming, not with
these waders on. And no, sir, youre
right. Im not really boating, either.
Theyd shake their heads and wave
me back into the pond. Now, with
my eyes just a couple of feet from the
pond surface, I share the perspective
of the damselfly, the kingfisher, the
slider turtles sunning on the bank. I
cast the popper, let the rings dissi-
pate, count to 10, and take in tiny
little strips of fly linenot to move
the bug so much as to keep the line
taut as the wind pushes me almost
imperceptibly toward the bream beds,
like another leaf on the pond.
The next bluegill is a beauty. It
runs for the deep water and leaves me
tangled in my fish stringer, which is
weighed down with browns and
blues and the flash of orange bellies.
This big old copperhead bream is
the granddaddy so far. When I bring
him to hand, its all I can do to get my
fingers around the fish. His flanks
have gone deep purple, and theres a
hump on his head that tells me hes
seen his share of full April moons.
This sucker is an inch and a quarter
thick, easy, by far the biggest bluegill
Ive ever pulled out of this pond. He
goes on the stringer. Two more keep-
ers and then its all for fun and games.
My white popper is working like
magic, but Im not one to leave well
enough alone. In my fly box a sinking
yellow-jacket pattern catches my eye.
Its a bit meatier than my standard-
issue popping bug. Meatier and a
touch sinister-looking, which might
be double-trouble for a fat bream
guarding a bed full of babies. The fly
is also quite the dapper fellow,
spruced up in a tiny black tuxedo
with a yellow cummerbund.
That thought seals the deal. I pull
out the yellow jacket, snug down the
knot. I may be a few days late to the
party, but the morning has all the feel
of a special occasion.
FS
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If youre looking for a reel that has the guts, rock-solid con-
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cold-forged aluminum, and featuring a sealed NanoCF carbon-
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The bottom line is that you simply will not find this kind of
performance anywhere else for under $250. Having put both
the 7-weight and 2-weight models through their paces, Im con-
fident in saying either one could stop a bonefish or withstand
being run over by an M1 Abrams. Joe Cermele
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REDHEAD REALITY SERIES CRAZY JAKE
$50; basspro.com
The big trend in molded-rubber turkey decoys
is ultrarealismand attendant sticker shock.
RedHeads new Crazy Jake gives you the former
without the latter. For half the usual price, this fake
is impressively lifelike. Designed to not run off shy
gobblers, it is 30 percent smaller than most such
dekes and strikes a nonthreatening three-quarter-
strut pose. Crazy Jake comes with a fabric fan but
accepts the real thing, and it is compatible with
RedHeads new motion stake, which spins the
imposter like its strutting for real. Dave Hurteau
YO-ZURI SASHIMI CIRCLE HOOK SERIES
$15; yo-zuri.com
For catch-and-release anglers, Yo-Zuri offers the
first factory lures made with circle hooks, which
help prevent gut-hooking fish. The series includes a
suspending jerkbait (3
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catch a wide variety of species, from largemouths
and pike to stripers and reds. The jerkbait that I
tested in early spring delivered enticing action and
ultra-easy hook removal. Mark Modoski
CLEAN-SHOT NOCK OUT LIGHTED NOCKS
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OCD bowhunters like me want to practice with the
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tend to burn out over weeks of target shooting.
But not Nock Out nocks, which have an innovative
locking on-off collar. Simply keep the light off
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LED when hunting. The provided adapter sleeves
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micro- diameter models. Michael R. Shea
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Volunteers opening access, improving hunting
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BRINGING BALANCE TO
LAND MANAGEMENT
RYAN KRAPP
BISMARCK, N.D.
As state chair of the North
Dakota Mule Deer Founda-
tion for two years, and a
leader of his local chapter for
six years before that, Krapp
has been instrumental in rais-
ing the funds to enroll land-
owners in the states Private
Land Open to Sportsmen
(PLOTS) program. He also
spearheaded a $75,000 pre-
scribed burn project, which
should take place this spring.
We raffle off a muley tag
each year to raise between
$10,000 and $15,000, which
helps cover PLOTS contracts
for 27,000 acres in the west-
ern part of the state, says
Krapp, who has his masters
in wildlife and fisheries biol-
ogy. He is also working with
his contacts in the energy in-
dustry to lobby for a more
balanced approach to oil and
gas development.
BUILDING BETTER HABITAT
AND HUNTERS
BOB KEICHER
CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y.
When a local Boy Scout
camp was closed due to poor
conditions, Keicher helped
raise $80,000 to build a new
facility and furnish the
troops with rifles, ammo,
and archery equipment. I
contacted the heads of com-
panies who were former
Scouts willing to give back,
says Keicher, and we got
more than enough dona-
tions. Working with the Ad-
irondack Catskill Chapter of
SCI for eight years, Keicher
has helped local children
make 150 wood-duck boxes
annually. The kids feel so
proud to build something,
and later we take them to
see how the boxes were
used and count eggshells.
He has also been involved in
launching a program in
which prison inmates raise
thousands of pheasants.
FOSTERING SAFETY
AND FUN
HAROLD HOLT
SHEBOYGAN, WIS.
Holt first started volunteer-
ing to teach hunter-safety
courses 36 years ago, only a
few years after the program
was established in Wiscon-
sin. To date, he has taught
more than 3,500 boys, girls,
and adults how to use fire-
arms and bows safely. I of-
ten receive photos of for-
mer students with the deer
or ducks theyve hunted,
and that always makes me
feel good, says Holt, who
has also served on the volun-
teer planning committee for
the Sheboygan County
Greenwing Day, alongside
2013 Conservation Hero of
the Year finalist Jeff Gorr,
for 25 years. Its really im-
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handle guns properly, he
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gave a compressed instruction
course to two women who were
about to go on a mule deer hunt and had
never fired a rifle before. We conducted the
class separately, and after an hour or so my
friend walked over to where I was and said,
I cant show her anything. She hits the 10-
ring every time she pulls the trigger.
Some women, like some men, do not learn
to shoot easily, and do not become good
shots. But from what Ive seen, many women
learn faster than men and do at least as well
or better. Women concentrate better than
men; they listen better; theyre more flexible,
so they get into shooting positions more
easily. And since theyre coming into the
shooting sports faster than any other group, it
behooves us to know how to get them started
should we have the chance.
RECOIL
If you start a woman shooting with anything
but a .22 rimfire, you have taconite ore be-
tween your ears instead of brains. Nobody
likes recoil, and women have sense enough to
admit it. When you move to a big-game rifle,
a cartridge such as a 7mm/08, a .260 Reming-
ton, or the old 6.5x55 or 7x57 Mauser will
drop anythingand with minimum kick and
muzzle blast. The wife of a friend of mine
took a 7mm/08 to Africa last year and killed
12 critters with 12 shots.
GUN FIT
The average factory rifle is stocked for a man
who is about 5 feet 9 inches. The average
woman is considerably shorter and has a
longer neck. This means that the standard
FEMALE ACADEMY
The correct way to introduce a woman
to the ways of the rifle By David E. Petzal
length of pull of 13
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4 inches is going to
be much too long. In addition, the comb will
be too low for her to get any support from it.
To check for gun fit, have the shooter wear
the clothes shell have on when she hunts.
Ask her to close her eyes and mount the rifle;
if her eye is not level with the center of the
ocular lens, and she does not have around 3
1
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inches of eye relief, there is work to do.
If moving the scope rearward in the rings
doesnt achieve proper eye relief, take the rifle
to a gunsmith who knows how to fit guns and
have the stock shortened. (While youre at it,
have a good recoil pad installed.) This leaves
the problem of comb height. There are sev-
eral accessory combs that lace or slide on, but
I dont like any of them because they dont
stay put.
Instead, you can build up the comb with
thicknesses of moleskin or by duct-taping
rectangles of
1
2-inch closed-cell foam to the
stock until you get the height you need. Both
solutions look like hell but work great.
EYE DOMINANCE
Ive seen a surprising number of women
shooters who are right-handed and left-
eyed, or vice versa. This causes problems, so
check for it. Have the woman stand 20 feet
or so from a bulls-eye target, form a circle
with the thumbs and index fingers of both
hands and, in one motion, bring the circle
up and center the bull in it. Now, have her
open and shut one eye at a time. If the bull
appears to move when she shuts an eye, that
is the dominant eye.
You always try to shoot with the stronger
eye, so if she is right-handed and left-eyed,
shell do better learning to shoot left-handed.
For what its worth, Im right-handed and
left-eyed, and I shoot left-handed; Warren
Page was left-handed and right-eyed, and he
shot right-handed.
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Keep in mind that women, unlike men, tend
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them slow to pull the trigger. Its not a prob-
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Work on getting off an accurate shot within
three seconds of acquiring the target.
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THROW LONG
Just before the boat rounds the turn, make
a long cast with a popper over the corner and
into the slack pocket on the other side. Braided
line helps cut through marsh grass if a section
of your line ends up spanning dry land. Stripers
often smash the lure within two pops.
POWER DOWN
When you approach a bend, position the boat
so the current carries you toward the inside
corner, and kill the engine. If you have a trolling
motor, youll be able to make adjustments once
the big engine is shut down; if you dont, do your
best to gauge the path of the current and keep
the bow pointed downstream.
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and rivers in May, where many will often remain for the summer to feed on the plentiful baitfish that get
pushed with the tide in these high-current areas. Targeting these bass takes some stealth, as they can be
highly pressured and wary. Step one is to attack at first and last light. Step two is using the current to
time your approach and dictate your boat position. Stripers use the slack pockets on inside bends to
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When you get bit, set hard and move the
rod away from the corner. As the boat is pushed
around the turn, you want to keep side pressure
on to steer the fish away from the bank. Get-
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Tired of early-season bass and trout?
Switch gears for trophy cats
By Mark Modoski
THE LOCATION
Farm ponds are an especially good choice
in early spring, because they warm much faster
than big lakes and rivers. Cats are drawn to the
shallows that have dark mud bottoms, which heat
up much quicker than hard bottoms.
THE GEAR
A 7-foot medium-heavy spinning or casting
rod is perfect for spring catfishing. Spinning reels
with a bait-runner feature or casting reels with a
clicker are ideal, as they allow big cats to run off
with the bait while tension remains on the line.
Spool up with 20-pound braid.
THE RIG
Slide a
1
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1
2-ounce egg sinker up the
main line, then tie on a barrel swivel. To the other
side, attach a 12- to 18-inch leader of 20-pound
fluorocarbon, and finish the rig with a 3/0 Kahle
hook. Channel cats will be scavenging for baitfish
that died over the winter, so strong-smelling baits
produce best at this time of year. Chicken livers
are my personal favorite, but dough baits loaded
with baitfish scent work, too.
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associate spring with
prespawn bass fishing
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While theyre casting jigs and
spinners, however, channel
catfish are waking up from
their long winter nap and put-
ting on the feedbag. Catfish-
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water temperatures climb out
of the 40s, and theyll con-
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QUANTUM LEAP FROG
Three ways to modify brand-new
frog lures into killer rigs the large-
mouths in your lake havent seen yet
By Ben Duchesney
Although you can
find frogs in almost any
color, stick to natural pat-
terns. Mottled greens and
browns are especially good
choices, as they best mimic
a frog that was in hiding
now suddenly running
scared in open
water.
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LUNKER HUNT
LUNKER FROG These
hollow-body baits with
extending and retract-
ing legs are realistic
and deadly on their
own. But add a suction
cup to one of these
lifelike amphibians, and
it becomes just lethal
($7; lunkerhunt.com).
BOG BAITS NATU-
RAL BOG FROG With
naturally extended
legs, the floating
version of these baits
is ideal for mimick-
ing a frog swimming
subsurface. They are
Jamie Pistillis favorite
for Texas rigging ($6;
bogbaits.com).
STRIKE KING RAGE
TAIL TOAD This is
VanDams choice for
hole- punching. The
long legs offer plenty
of extra length to trim
back, creating a frog
with a more subtle
swimming and falling
action ($5 for five;
strikeking.com).
ITS EASY TWEAKING GREEN
Frog baits can lose their potency over time
if you keep throwing that same pattern over
and over. Rather than look for the next great frog, I
started tweaking my favorite patterns to re-up their
hog-fooling capabilitiesand Im not the only one
doing this. My frog tweak, plus two from pro anglers
Jamie Pistilli and Jonathon VanDam, will turn the
heads of the biggest, most pressured bass in the lake.
How to modify and fish three proven frog fakes
SINK & SWIM Big City Fishing host Jamie
Pistilli drowns his soft-plastic frogs by Texas-
rigging them on a 5/0 hook with a split shot
a foot up the line. This way, the buoyant frog
hovers below the surface. Weave the bait
through lily stalks and be ready for reaction
strikes. A straight retrieve at medium speed
produces the most strikes, Pistilli says. But
make sure you always look for movement
behind the bait before you yank it out of the
water. Bass will follow right to the boat.
SUCK IT UP I add a clear suction cup to
the head of my hollow-body frogs to create a
surface disturbance that mimics the sound of
a frog plopping off a lily. Poke a hole through
the cups middle, thread it over the hook eye,
and secure it in place with superglue. When
I work the frog through open water, the cup
creates enough popping action to attract
more attention without spooking fish. If fish
are wary, push the suction cup backward, like
a broken umbrella, to reduce the pop and
make the bait slide from side to side.
PLAY DOCTOR Pro Jonathon VanDam
cuts
1
2 inch off each leg on sinking soft-plastic
frogs, which reduces the amount of noise
the bait makes in the water but maintains
just enough kick for the frog to stand out. He
pitches the frog to a hole in the grass and lets
it fall. The flutter on the drop looks like a real
frog swimming below the grassline. The short
legs make the frog look smart, VanDam
says. A real frog doesnt want to draw atten-
tion by fully extending its legs when it swims.
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Phot ographs by LUKE NI LSSON
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> By Ross Robertson
TAKE IT SLOW
A 1-mph S pattern
works best now.
TUNE PRECISELY
You can have the hottest-
color lure in your area, but it
wont do you any good if its
out of tune. Even a crank
that ran well last week can
be off this week simply from
the weight of a thrashing
fish, or perhaps you were
overzealous with your pliers
when removing a hook. To
check your tuning, put the
lure in the water and pay out
a rods length of line. Pull the
rod forward as the boat
moves. The lure should dive
straight down. If it shears off
to one side, bend the line-tie
eye in the opposite direc-
tion of the way the lure is
tracking with needle-nose
pliers. The trick is to bend it
slightly, readjusting until it
runs true. Dont twist it like a
pretzel, because you risk
making the lure perma-
nently un-tunable.
GET LAZY
Walleyes are often found in
the sun-warmed top 10 feet
of the water column, which
also happens to hold the
most baitfish. If this is where
youre marking them, its all
the better to opt for a
crankbait attack because
their position suggests
theyre actively feeding and
hunting for bait. Start pull-
ing your cranks at 1 mph in
lazy S pattern. Your lures
will speed up on one side of
the boat and slow down on
the other, giving your pre-
sentation a little variety. Ev-
ery once in a while, stop the
boat completely. This can
get walleyes to hit when all
else fails. The Rapala Husky
Jerk and Reef Runner 800
are two of my favorite lures
for this approach.
In May, most walleye waters are still cold, and the bulk of the big girls will
be in their postspawn stages. That means you have a prime shot at hooking
the eye of a lifetime. The giants are fairly easy to find at this time of year, as they
often stack up over areas with muddy bottoms. Though crankbaits are often put
into play when the water warms, they can be lethal now if you know how to use
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a crawl and making sure your crankbaits are tracking true.
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GIVE YOUR BIRD MUCHO FLAVOR WITH A TASTE FROM OLD MEXICO > By Jonathan Miles
F OOD
WILD TURKEY MOLE
Mole sauce (pronounced MO-lay) may be
the oldest and noblest preparation for wild
turkey that exists. In southern Mexico, where
the sauce originated, mole is often a complex
creation with dozens of ingredients cooked over
the course of several days. Tis one, based on
a version the Chicago chef Rick Bayless is fond
of making to accompany quail, is vastly less
demanding but no less exhilarating. Just make
sure, as with any wild turkey preparation, to
avoid overcooking the breast. A mole can work
wonders but not miracles.
1 wild turkey breast,
whole or split
2 dried ancho chiles,
seeded and stemmed
2 Tbsp. lard or
vegetable oil, divided
1
2
onion, sliced
2 garlic cloves, peeled
4 plum tomatoes,
halved lengthwise
1
2
cup dry-roasted
unsalted peanuts
1
2
cup roasted
unsalted almonds
2 slices white bread,
torn into chunks
1 chipotle chile, of the
canned variety with
adobo sauce
1
2
tsp. cinnamon
1 quart chicken stock,
plus slightly more if
needed
3
4
cup red wine
1 Tbsp. red wine
vinegar
2 bay leaves
1 Tbsp. sugar
2 Tbsp. olive oil
4 Tbsp. cilantro,
chopped
Salt and freshly
ground pepper, to
taste
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Set a skillet over medium heat. Rip the ancho
chiles into pieces that will lie flat in the pan.
Toast the pieces on both sides until they begin to
crackle, but flip or remove them once they start to
smoke. Transfer the toasted chile to a bowl filled
with hot water and let soak for 30 minutes.
2
In the meantime, heat 1 Tbsp. of the lard or
oil in a large pot or Dutch oven over medium
heat. Add the onion and garlic and cook, stirring
occasionally, until the onion is a deep golden
brown, about 8 minutes. Remove from the heat.
3
Arrange the tomato halves cut side up on a
sheet pan, and place under a broiler set to high
(or adjust the height on a broiler pan). Roast the
tomatoes until blackened and bubbling, about 5
minutes, then flip them and roast the other side to
the same effect. Allow them to cool, then peel off as
much skin as you can (some charred bits are fine).
4
Scrape the tomatoes and any juices into a
blender jar, along with the cooled onion and
garlic. Drain the ancho chiles, discarding the water,
and add them as well. Add the nuts, bread, chipotle,
cinnamon, and about 2 cups of the chicken stock
and blend until very smooth. (You may need to stop
the blender at times to scrape down the sides. Add
more stock as needed to yield a smooth, pourable
pure.) Press the pure through a sieve into a bowl.
5
Over a medium-high burner, heat the
remaining 1 Tbsp. lard or oil in the same pot
or Dutch oven, rinsed and wiped clean, that you
used for the onion. When it begins to smoke, add
the pure and stir constantly for 5 to 7 minutes,
or until the mixture has darkened and thickened
considerably. Add the remaining chicken stock,
wine, vinegar, and bay leaves, and reduce the
heat to low. Simmer, partially covered, for about
an hour, stirring occasionally and adding more
stock or water as needed to maintain a saucy
consistency. Add salt and pepper along with the
tablespoon of sugar, to taste, and keep the sauce
covered while you cook the turkey.
6
Allow the turkey to sit out, covered, at room
temperature 30 minutes before cooking.
Light a medium fire on one side of a charcoal grill,
leaving the other side open, or, for a gas grill, set
the burners to medium on one side. Rub the turkey
breasts with the olive oil, and generously salt and
pepper them. Place the turkey on the grill, directly
over the heat, and cook each side for about 5
minutes, to brown it. Move the breast to the side
without coals and cover the grill. It is done when a
meat thermometer placed in its thickest part reads
150 degrees; the size of the breast and temperature
of the grill will determine cooking time. Wrap the
breast in foil and let it rest for about 10 minutes.
Gently reheat the mole as needed.
7
To serve, slice the meat across the grain.
Ladle the mole onto plates and nestle the
turkey into the sauce, garnishing with the
chopped cilantro. (There will be ample sauce
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May is prime time for hubcap-size bluegills, Duckworth says. Theyre often spawning
now, so head for the back of a cove or tributary arm, and wearing polarized sunglasses,
search for clusters of spawning beds near the shoreline. They look like little lunar
craters on the bottom, and you should see bluegills darting all around them. If the fish
arent spawning, he says, theyll hold in the shade beneath overhanging trees and boat
docks, and near submerged logs and weed patches in 2 to 8 feet of water.
RIG FOR BULLS
If youre fishing with your kids and want nonstop action, live bait is the way to go. Thread
two or three fat crickets on a No. 2 Tru-Turn Blood Red long-shank panfish hook and
fish them 2 to 4 feet beneath a small bobber. Once youve located a school of bluegills,
pinching a tiny split shot just above the hook gets the bait into the strike zone quicker,
Duckworth says. For bull bluegills and fat shellcrackers, he prefers small artificials like
the Johnson Beetle Spin and Blakemore Road Runner
1
8 ounce around shallow
spawning beds, and
1
4 ounce for probing the deeper water beneath docks. Both of
these lures produce flash and vibrations that trigger strikes from monster bluegills.
Simply cast them past your target and slow-roll them back to the boat. I fish both live
bait and artificials on a 5
1
2-foot light-action spinning outfit with 6-pound line.
Most fishermen target bluegills solely in farm ponds and other small bodies
of water. But these scrappy fish are abundant in sprawling lakes and reser-
voirs as well and are a fun alternative when heavily pressured bass or walleyes
arent biting. Bluegills and shellcrackers tend to be totally ignored in big waters,
says Tennessee guide Jim Duckworth. And they can grow huge as a result.
Heres where Duckworth finds the fish and how he rigs for them.
MORE THAN FAIR GAME
T I PS
HOW TO CATCH JUMBO BLUEGILLS IN YOUR BASS LAKE > By Don Wirth
Why So Blue?
If the bass bite
slows down, odds
are the bluegills will
still strike.
The idea of a hot dog
roasted over an open
fire is a romantic one,
but the reality is usu-
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the outside and cold
in the middle. A truly
perfect dog requires
techniqueand
maybe a couple of
secret ingredients.
First, the heat source:
Let a hardwood fire
burn down until you
have a pile of glowing
coals that you can
hold your hand over
for a count of five.
A flat metal skewer
(with a handle) trans-
fers heat better than
a green willow, cook-
ing the hot dog from
the inside as well as
out, and keeps the
meat in place as you
turn it. Next, while
a plain dog is fine,
thinking outside the
bun is even better.
Wrap the dog with
bacon or prepared
biscuit dough, then
hold the frank about
4 inches over the
fiery ashes. Slowly
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get started, remove barrels, actions, and sling swivels from the
stocks. Lightly sand the stocks with 220-grit sandpaper and wipe
them clean with denatured alcohol or acetone. Use masking tape
and an X-Acto blade to mask off areas that shouldnt be painted.
Suspend the stocks from a clothes hanger and start spraying.
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STENCIL STRIPES
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cut spray-through stencils out of
a manila envelope or folder. Cut
a variety of stripe stylesbig and small
and with different wave patterns.
To make the tiger-stripe pattern shown
above, paint the entire stock tan. Next, hold
the stencil close to the stock and spray gray
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CAMPING
Buck a log with
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Hunting
Master the pull-
away lead, p. 45
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1 9 ADVANCE D OUT DOOR
SKI L L S AND TOOL S YOU NE E D
TO CATCH MORE F I SH, HUNT
SMART E R, AND CAMP
L I KE A CHAMP
BY T. E DWARD NI CKE NS
FISHING
Fly cast to a
moving fish,
p. 42
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FILM JAW-DROPPING
FISH VIDEOS
Point-of-view cameras,
like the GoPro, are be-
coming as essential to a
tackle bag as line nip-
pers. Taking your
fishing videos to the
next level means taking
killer footage under-
water. Heres how.
rate of success Use
a lower frame rate,
such as 24 frames per
second. Youll need the
boost in light gathering
underwater, and youll
reduce the visual
noise in the video. If
possible, choose the
4 : 3 format to take ad-
vantage of a slightly
taller and wider frame.
shot placement Ex-
periment with camera
angles. With the cam-
era strapped to a pole
or stick, capture the
trolling motor propel-
ler or your wading
boots moving along the
stream bottom. Film a
lure or fly as its worked
FLY CAST TO A MOVING FISH
Got that double-haul down pat? Youll need it for this challenge: Drop
a fly in front of a moving gamefish, at 50 feet, with no more than two false
casts. Heres a backyard drill for the redfish marshes and bonefish flats.
Double Stack Strip 50 feet of shooting line from the reel and stack it in
large loose coils in front of your left foot (if youre a righty). If you shoot that
line now, it will pull from the bottom of the stack and end in a tangle. Grasp
the line where it exits the reel in the crook of the pinky on your rod hand.
With your free hand, grab the line and pull all of it through your pinky,
restacking the line so it will shoot tangle-free. Now, pick a target 50 feet out.
Fire When Ready Pull 10 feet of that stacked line through the tip. Hold
the fly at the hook bend in your reel hand and point your rod tip up. Fire a
roll cast and release the fly after you snap the rod forward. Back cast with a
haul, false cast with another haul, haul on your second back cast, and shoot.
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tweaks to help you
catch more fish.
eye sore Pinch one
eye from a large bait-
fish such as a shad or
bluegill. The bait will
struggle in the water,
attracting predators.
dye job Clean dirt
from a dozen night-
crawlers and put them
in a bowl. Add 1 Tbsp.
food coloring (green is
great) and stir. Cover
and refrigerate for at
least three hours and as
long as overnight.
shell games Add
crushed eggshells to
catfish dough. The
fragments catch light,
adding a bit of sparkle
to dull dough baits.
TROLL THE BACKCOUNTRY
DOWNRIGGER
Between fishing kayaks
and easier access to re-
mote wilderness, going
deep in backcountry
lakes is a great way to
reach walleyes and
trout. To target fish 40
SHOOT THE DOCKS
FOR CRAPPIES
Docks provide shade, baitfish,
ambush cover, and even a little
night mood lighting at times. It
all comes together as super
crappie coverexcept for
those pesky docks. Theres no
way to get a traditional cast in
between all those boat lifts,
finger piers, pilings, and gang-
ways. To get there, youll need
to shoot your way in. Shooting
docks for crappies is where
fishing meets bowhunting.
You turn your rod into a bow
and your grub into an arrow,
shooting a jig deep into shady
haunts beneath a dock. Look
for old docks with wooden
posts. Spool an open-face
spinning reel with high-
visibility monofilament in 4- to
6-pound-test. Use a medium-
light or even ultralight rod in
the 5- to 7-foot range. Arm it
with a soft-bodied crappie jig.
You are locked and loaded.
STEP ONE
Point the rod tip up and open the
bail. Release enough line so the
lure falls to the bottom rod
guide. Trap the line against the
rod with the trigger finger of
your rod hand. With your free
hand, grasp the jighead between
thumb and forefinger and middle
finger with the hook point up and
the rest of your fingers out of the
hooks way. Holding the jig to
your side, extend the rod tip to-
ward your target zone. This cre-
ates the bend in the rod.
STEP TWO
Keep the line between the rod tip
and the jig low and parallel to the
water. You may need to crouch.
The lure should start skipping
just before the dock.
STEP THREE
Let go of the jighead first, and in
the next instant release your trig-
ger finger to allow the line to play
out. To keep the lure from hitting
the rod tip, pop the rod tip up-
ward upon the release.
to 60 feet deep, use
light lines to slice
through the water and
a weight to pull your
lure into the depths.
triple play Spool a
reel with dark green
6-pound mono, or
8-pound braid. Tie on a
three-way swivel. To
another eye, tie 4 feet
of mono, and to this tie
a 1- to 3-ounce bell
sinker. Tie 3 feet of
mono to the other eye,
and attach a light lure
like a small spoon.
over easy The trick is
to get deep without
tangles. Paddle for-
ward and ease the rig
overboard. Let line out
a few feet at a time, oc-
casionally pinching line
so it goes taut behind
the boat. As forward
momentum slows, set
the reel bail, get up a bit
more speed, then flip
the bail and let more
line out. When you hit
bottom, crank the
weight up a foot and
paddle in a zigzag path.
through the water.
Then take some time to
dial in these two shots:
casting Mount the
camera to a fixed stake
in the water, a few
inches above the sur-
face. Back off and cast
at the camera. With a
dry fly, land the pat-
tern upstream and let
it drift into the shot.
With a bass plug, aim a
foot or two in front.
dual profile One of
the coolest fish shots is
capturing the release
taken from just below
the fish, showing the
fish being held under-
water and the anglers
grinning face above.
Set up the shot so the
sun is to the side or in
front of the angler so
you dont create a dark
silhouette.
LIVEN UP LIVE BAITS
Still globbing your
worm on an Aberdeen
hook? Seriously? Here
are three smart bait-rig
FOR AN AUTHENTIC PRACTICE
SESSION, CAST FROM THE TOP OF
A PICNIC TABLE. ITS ABOUT THE
SIZE OF A SKIFFS CASTING DECK
AND WILL GIVE YOU A SENSE OF
BEING OUT ON THE EDGE.
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toward your target.
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PATTERN A NOCTURNAL
BUCK WITH TRAIL CAMS
Its easy to pattern deer
that waltz into the best
feed field an hour be-
fore dark each night.
But what about a big,
old buck that doesnt
show up till after dark?
If your cameras
have a time-lapse func-
tion, you can pattern
the smartest late- rising
buck with a three-unit
setup, says Darin Ste-
phens, trail-camera se-
nior product manager
for Bushnell. Start at
the best field or plot
and set one camera
each facing east, west,
and north. (Too much
of a southerly orienta-
tion causes direct sun-
light to produce false
triggers.) Set the time-
lapse function to re-
cord an image every
one to five minutes,
depending on how
much activity you an-
ticipate. This allows
you to watch the whole
field during daylight,
and while it wont re-
cord your nocturnal
buck, it will show you
exactly where deer like
to enter the field.
move in Odds are
good that the biggest
buck enters at the
same, or one of the
same, spots as other
deerjust a little later.
Once youve estab-
lished these spots,
switch off the time-
lapse function and
move the cams to
watch the most active
entry points, especially
any favored by other
bucks. Give the cam-
eras a few days, then
come back at midday
to see your previously
invisible night buck.
move back Now
scout just inside the
woods from the entry
point to find a trail or
fresh buck sign.
Theres a chance your
buck is staging here
until dark, so move a
cam here. Use a climb-
ing stick to place it 6 to
8 feet high in a tree,
with the lens angled
slightly downward. If
you get a daylight pic-
ture here, hang a stand
and hunt immediately.
If you dont, keep mov-
ing a little deeper into
the woods on the same
trail until you do.
USE BINOCULARS AS A
SPOTTING SCOPE
Backcountry elk hunt-
ers and high-country
sheep hunters look to
Developed in Japan about
200 years ago, tenkara fishing
was introduced to American an-
glers in 2009. It involves using a
very long fly rod with no reel;
the line is tied directly to the tip.
Using a truncated style of short-
distance casting, anglers can
use these rods to reach across
conflicting currents and pre-
vent a faster (or slower) cur-
rent from pulling the fly and
causing drag. Adherents are
nearly worshipful of tenkara,
which they say puts more em-
phasis on skill and less on gear.
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Tenkara rods telescope, and
some can extend to nearly 15
feet. With a base length of less
than 2 feet, theyre great for
packing into tight headwaters.
Use the longest rod you can,
says Daniel Galhardo, owner of
Tenkara USA. The limiting fac-
tor is how much canopy might
impede the cast, not overall
length. Youll quickly get used
to the length, and youll want
the line control.
Lines are about the length of
the rod and attach to the rod
tip. There are two broad types:
More traditional tapered lines
afford a super-delicate presen-
tation. Newer level lines are
more easily altered on the
stream but harder to cast. Lines
are tipped with a short 3- to
4-foot tippet.
Most tenkara flies feature a re-
verse hackle in which the
feather is brushed forward to-
ward the hook eye. This gives
the fly a pulsing profile.
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shave ounces from
their loads. Converting
binoculars for use as a
spotting scope saves
weight and limited
pack space. A couple of
aftermarket accesso-
ries make the conver-
sion work. The results
arent as clear and
bright as a dedicated
spotting scope, but not
having to carry both
items is a definite
bonus for wilderness
big-game hunters.
MASTER THE PULLAWAY LEAD
Most shotgunners are familiar with the two more common shooting
methods: sustained lead and swing-through. But long-range birds and angling
crossers are often best felled with a tough-to-master lead called the pullaway, in
which the barrel is pointed directly at the target, then accelerated ahead. With
this method, the barrel never gets behind the bird, and by accelerating away
from the target, its easier to maintain proper follow-through.
Make the Move When you see the bird, bring the shotgun stock up to your
nipple and point the muzzle right at the target. Track the bird for a moment.
This builds speed and trajectory into the critical initial mechanics of the shot.
Mount Up Mount the gun, maintaining the muzzle position on the bird. Put
the end of the muzzle directly on the target. Next, touch the birds beak with
the bead.
Moment of Impact Push the barrel ahead of the bird, matching its direction
of travel, and pull the trigger instinctively.
GET IN FRONT OF THE
BIRDAND STAY IN FRONT
WITH THE PULLAWAY LEAD, A
FIELD-PROVEN TECHNIQUE
THAT YOU CAN MODIFY FOR
NEARLY EVERY SHOT.
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Like supermodels, mod-
ern arrows keep getting
lighter, stronger, faster,
thinnerand more com-
plicated. Scott Andress,
the owner of Pike County
Archery in Illinois, and a
man obsessed with ar-
rows, walked us through
the components that make
up the ultimate arrow.
Nock Andress recom-
mends changing nocks,
which can wear, every
yearand every one at
the same time.
Fletching Short 2-inch
vanes are stiff and tough
and have nearly replaced
4-inch vanes. Most factory
arrows have straight or
offset fletching, but heli-
cal fletching gets an arrow
spinning more quickly for
better stability.
Arrow Wraps These help
hunters follow the flight
of small-diameter arrows.
Shaft Micro-diameter ar-
rows have smaller shafts
of stiffer materials that
can lead to better pene-
tration. Arrows with vary-
ing spine ratings along the
same shaft seek to tame
the flex that occurs when
the enormous load of en-
ergy is applied at the re-
lease of the bowstring.
Stiffer back sections take
up the force, while the
lighter middle and for-
ward sections contain
most of the flex.
Broadhead Mechanical
broadheads create
wicked wound channels.
And theyre getting ever
larger, with cutting diam-
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Tripod adapters allow
binoculars to be
mounted to the
1
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pod. Many manufac-
turers offer adapters
specific to their
models.
twice as nice An op-
tical doubler doubles
the magnification of
binoculars, turning a
10X binoc into a 20X
elk finder. A doubler
typically fits over one
eyepiece and is light
SHOOT LIGHTS-OUT
FROM A LAYOUT BLIND
Shooting from a layout blind is tricky. You
have a split second to sit up while shoving
blind doors open and shouldering a shot-
gun, only to find that your range of motion
is seriously limited. Heres how to set a de-
coy spread so the birds present you with
the best shotand how to make the shot
when they come sailing in.
STEP ONE
Work with an H-shaped decoy pattern in a cut
field. With the wind coming from your right, set
two parallel groups of decoys about 60 yards
apart. Position a perpendicular line of decoys
upwind of the blinds to connect the first two
this creates the H with a landing zone right in
front of the blinds. Now when birds approach,
their attention will be diverted away from the
blinds, giving you and your hunting buddy
crossing shots at decoying birds.
STEP TWO
Figure out exactly where your blind will be,
then make a hip hole by digging out 4 or 5
inches of dirt at the position of your butt. Once
inside the blind, pull the knee of your shooting
side up a bit, which will give you a bit of lever-
age to drive your rear end into the hip hole as
you sit up for the shot. In this scenario birds
will be landing from left to right, and should
have their wings set just as they cross into
range. When its time to shoot, rise into posi-
tion, lean forward an extra inch or two to help
absorb recoil, and concentrate on swiveling
your entire torso with the birds instead of
pushing the gun with your arms. Shoot as the
birds drift into the H, so they will be directly
above your toes for a follow-up shot.
good! The full version
of the recipe is in Ley-
saths The Sporting
Chefs Better Venison
Cookbook. Heres the
quick version.
Marinate 3-inch-
long strips of venison,
duck, or other wild
game in a mix of olive
oil, sesame oil, soy
sauce, orange marma-
lade, Tabasco, and
black pepper.
Make a normal, ev-
eryday, wild-game
popperwrapping
the meat, jalapeo,
and cream cheese
with a strip of bacon
and securing it all with
a toothpick (prefera-
bly one thats been
soaked in water so it
doesnt catch fire on
the grill).
Except
Replace the cream
cheese with a piece of
sliced mango, and use
prosciutto instead of
bacon. Grill the pop-
pers until the pro-
sciutto is crispy.
Distribute. Eat. Take
a bow, chef.
enough that you can
toss one in your pack
and, in a pinch, use it
without a tripod. Just
brace the binoculars
against a tree.
COOK A MEANER
WILD-GAME POPPER
Scott Leysath, a.k.a.
the Sporting Chef, has
elevated the beloved
jalapeo popper to
red-carpet status, as if
dressing it in Gucci
and Louboutin heels. I
mean, damn, these are
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Blinds go on the
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When aiming feels as natural as breathing, thats when you know theres
an M&P in your hands. An 18-degree grip angle ensures a natural point of
aim, and three interchangeable palmswell grips tailor your gun to you.
Where grip meets hand, where fit meets form, where design meets you.
FIND THE RIGHT M&P FOR YOU AT SMITH-WESSON.COM
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DIG A DAKOTA FIRE HOLE
Native Americans used a Dakota fire
hole to hide cooking fires from their ene-
mies. Turns out that these small pits also
consume less wood while burning hotter
than open fires. Plus, they excel in windy
conditions and provide a great platform
for cooking. The fire hole works by draw-
ing fresh air into the combustion chamber.
Hot air rises from the hole, creating a draft
that draws air through the vent and into
the base of the fire. The cycle is self-
sustaining, and digging the vent on the up-
wind side of the fire hole helps suck up the
breeze like the air scoop on the Bandits
Trans Am. Heres how to dig one.
STEP ONE
Dig the fire chamber. Excavate a pit 1 foot in di-
ameter and 1 foot deep. Now widen the base of
the chamber a few inches so it has a juglike
shape. This lets you burn larger pieces of wood.
STEP TWO
Dig the air tunnel. Start a foot away from the
edge of the chamber, on the upwind side, and
carve out a molelike tunnel 5 or 6 inches in di-
ameter, angling down toward the base of the
fire chamber.
STEP THREE
Build your fire in the chamber and top the hole
with a grate or green saplings stout enough to
hold a pot over the flames.
TRICK OUT A
MUDPROOF ATV
Unless you live in the
desert, your ATVs big-
gest challenge is likely
to be good old-
fashioned mud. Al-
though ATVs are trail-
worthy right off the
factory floor, you can
take your machines
performance up sev-
eral notches with
shade-tree mechanic
skills and a modest
cash investment. If
you can change the oil
in your truck, you can
handle most of this,
says Rick Sosebee, an
offroad guru and the
ATV blogger on field
and stream.com. Here
are Sosebees four
ATV upgrades that will
boost your machines
mud-eating potential
in half a days work.
pull with power
Youre going to get
stuck. Be prepared
with a winch whose
pulling power is rated
at least twice the
weight of your ma-
chine. That way youll
have plenty of reserve
for uphill tugs. Make
sure the components
are sealed for a water-
proof unit; water resis-
tant isnt good enough.
gear up Recalibrate
the CVT (continuously
variable transmission)
with an upgrade kit.
This changes the en-
gagement of the trans-
mission so the motor
ramps up before fully
engaging the drive,
Sosebee says. The re-
sult: less spin, more
get-up-and-go-
through-the-muck.
Many kits are available
with the tools re-
quired. Its a three-
hour job, give or take,
and any hobbyist
grease monkey could
pull it off.
do tread on these
Upgrade to a mud tire.
Look for lugs at least
1 inch deep and in an
open pattern with
BUCK A LOG
WITH AN AX
You round a corner and
groan: A fallen tree blocks
the road. Your buddys de-
fault response is to stomp
to the back of the truck,
pull out the chain saw,
check the chain tension,
futz around for premixed
fuel, try to find earplugs,
and look for safety
glasses. By the time he
walks up with chain saw
ready, youll be well on
your way to a bucked tree
and a clear road with little
more than an ax and atti-
tude. Smirking follows.
Chop, Chop Stand on
top of the log and chop a
V-notch into the side of
the log between your feet,
using a six-stroke count:
Make three swings angling
in from the rightthe
first one high on the log,
then low, and then in the
middle. Next, repeat with
swings angling in from the
lefthigh, low, and mid-
dle. On that sixth and final
stroke, flick your wrist
slightly outwardan inch
will do itright after the
bit bites wood. This will
help toss the chips out of
the notch and prevent the
ax from sticking. Cut half-
way through one side of
the log, then turn around
and chop another V-notch
through the other side.
Plan the Vs so the tips of
the two notches are
slightly offset. This pre-
vents the final stroke from
overtraveling, sending the
ax bit between your legs
and that strong hickory
handle into your nuts at
warp 9.
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before you leave.
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Folding knives are evolving
with increasingly engineered
components. For proof, look at
Spydercos LionSpy, a collabora-
tion with the Italian knife maker
LionSteel. Think Jim Bowie meets
Lamborghini.
Steel Elmax PM 170 is a
powdered steel from
Austria, with a high car-
bon and chromium con-
tent. Compared with tra-
ditional steels, powdered
steels offer fine-grain
structures for extreme
sharpness and even dis-
tribution of added alloy
elements to provide
toughness and corrosion
resistance. Other new
powdered steels to look
for include S35VN, with
niobium and a superfine
grain for ease of sharpen-
ing, and CTS-XHP, one of
the super-stainless
harder steels that can be
ground very fine.
Handle The unique two-
piece handle is made of
two different scale mate-
rials: G10, on one side, is
woven glass cloth im-
pregnated with epoxy,
then pressed and heated.
The titanium side
(shown) is light like alu-
minum but stronger and
feels warm in the hand.
Lock This is not your
everyday frame lock. This
one is machined out of
the titanium handle scale
and tipped with a hard-
ened steel insert. It is also
backed with LionSteels
patented (and very cool)
RotoLocka titanium
disk that can be dialed
into a locking position
that prevents release of
the frame lock.
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plenty of spacing in be-
tween. Sosebee likes a
broken-chevron pat-
tern, in which the two
sides of a V come in
from the right and left
and cross at the cen-
terline of the tire.
stop gaps To keep
grime out of differen-
tials, extend a hose
from the differential
vent up to the steering
bracket. You can cap it
with an inexpensive
fuel filter to double the
protection. While
youre at it, remove
CVT covers and run a
1
4-inch bead of sili-
cone around the rims,
then replace. Its a
snap. If you can caulk
cracks around your
house to keep air from
coming in, Sosebee
says, you can caulk
CVT covers to keep
water out.
STRENGTHEN A TENT
WITH PICKET STAKES
This next-level guy-out
plan kicks in when the
wind cranks up to 25
mph. Picket stakes
boost the holding
power of tent stakes,
so use them on the
guylines attached to
the side of the tent that
faces the wind.
hammer time Drive a
tent stake into the
ground and attach it to
the tent guyline as you
typically would.
line up To make the
picket-stake line, at-
tach one end of a 16-
inch length of para-
chute cord to the first
stake (A, below). Run
the cord around the
stake twice and finish
with two half hitches.
Cinch tight against the
stake.
thats a wrap Drive
another tent stake (B)
into the ground 8 to 12
inches from the first
stake so that its in a
straight line with the
guyline. Wrap the run-
ning end of the p-cord
around the second
stake twice and finish
with two half hitches.
FOLLOW THE LAW,
PACK A POOP TUBE
Pack it in, pack it
out. Thats the leave-
no-trace mantra of
many wilderness
areas, especially popu-
lar rivers, and its not
just talking about
candy-bar wrappers.
Packing out your own
poop is actually re-
quired in some back-
country regions, and
its not as gross as you
think. (Almost, but not
quite.) The elegant so-
lution, devised by big-
wall climbers who
spend days aloft, is
called the Poop Tube.
pipe for the job Cut
a length of 4-inch-
diameter PVC pipe to
size. For a three-day
trip, 6 to 10 inches
should do it. Better too
long than too short.
This is irrefutable.
crap caps Glue a solid
cap to one end of the
tube, and a threaded
fitting to the other. At-
tach a tether of para-
chute cord to the tube
and a screw cap.
its all in the hips
When duty calls, bring
along a plastic grocery
bag. Reach behind your
back, grab one handle
of the bag in each
hand, pull the handles
toward your hips, and
get er done. (A dou-
bled bag never hurts.)
doodoo drop Tie the
bag, then deposit into
the Poop Tube.
BRING BATTERIES
BACK TO LIFE
When batteries give
way in frigid condi-
tions, there are ways to
pump them up with
temporary new life.
These techniques
wont give you enough
juice to battle your way
to the next Fruit Ninja
level, but you could get
enough to lock down
your location on a GPS
or send a text.
hot pocket First, re-
move batteries from
the device if possible.
Warm them next to
your body. Armpits
work well. Chest pock-
ets do the trick, espe-
cially if you are moving
and generating body
heat. Overnight, toss
batteries into the foot
of a sleeping bag. They
should be ready to fire
up come dawn.
solar shower Fill a
zip-seal bag with dark
materialsa black T-
shirt, dark leaves, or a
swath of black foam
padding will work. Put
the batteries on top of
this dark material, seal
the bag, and place it in
direct sunlight. The
sun will heat the mate-
rials, trapping the re-
sulting warm air inside
the bag. The batteries
should heat up suffi-
ciently for a few sec-
onds or minutes of
emergency use.
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1. With crossbows newly
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2. Runner-Up Eastern
Long Island Sound: Black
sea bass catch is way up.
DELAWARE: NANTICOKE RIVER,
GRASS CARP AND SNAKEHEADS
3. As invasive-fish numbers
have spiked, a new bow-
fishing season openswith
no limits or closed dates.
4. Runner-Up Midlands
WMA: Better habitat
points to more big bucks.
MAINE: REGION B, TURKEYS
5. Bird densities are soar-
ing in the heart of Region B,
which has 22 WMAs, and
this year residents and non-
residents can shoot four
turkeys (spring and fall, up
from two) for just $20.
6. Runner-Up Aroostook
River: New access at
Forbes Pit enables easy day
floats for brook trout.
MARYLAND: UPPER CHESA-
PEAKE BAY, STRIPED BASS
7. In the 57 years of state
surveys, 2011 saw the
fourth-best spring spawn.
Members of that bumper
crop should now be at or
over the 18-inch minimum.
8. Runner-Up Mount
Nebo WMA: Better grouse
and woodcock habitat.
MASSACHUSETTS: OAK
BLUFFS FISHING PIER,
STRIPED BASS
9. The largest sportfishing
pier in the state will open
on Marthas Vineyard this
spring, allowing foot an-
glers to push 300 feet out.
10. Runner-Up Burrage
Pond WMA: Better water
levels will pull more ducks.
NEW JERSEY: LENAPE FARMS,
WHITETAILS
11. This new 5,000-acre
state acquisition used to be
a private high-fence hunt-
ing club. The fence is now
mostly down, but deer
numbers are still up.
12. Runner-Up Del-Jersey-
Land Reef: A sunken ship
teems with fish, 28.5 miles
southeast of Cape May.
NEW HAMPSHIRE: LAKE
UMBAGOG NWR, MOOSE
13. Its 4,000 acres of
prime moose habitat will
open to hunters this fall.
14. Runner-Up Nash
Stream Forest: Healthier
habitat means bigger trout.
NEW YORK: LAKE CHAMPLAIN,
SALMON AND TROUT
15. With tributaries con-
taining fish-killing sea lam-
preys now treated, biolo-
gists expect a surge in big
trout and salmon this year.
16. Runner-Up Wilson Hill
WMA: More water, more
waterfowl.
PENNSYLVANIA: BIG SPRING
CREEK, TROUT
17. On the heels of a
$587,000 habitat project, a
2013 study showed that Big
Spring now has the highest
combined biomass of wild
browns and rainbows in
the commonwealth.
18. Runners-Up WMUs 2C
and 4B: More black bears,
expanded seasons.
RHODE ISLAND: RODMANS
HOLLOW, WHITETAILS
19. Shoot a deer, or eight,
on Block Island. A state lot-
tery now allows limited
public hunting to control
the estimated 80 to 100
whitetails per square mile.
20. Runner-Up Brenton
Reef: More big stripers.
VERMONT: BATTENKILL RIVER,
BROWN TROUT
21. A 2012 study found all-
time-high numbers of juve-
nile wild browns, which bi-
ologists say will be 14- and
15-inch fish this year.
22. Runner-Up Green
Mountains: Longer season
for abundant black bears.
WEST VIRGINIA: CHARLESTON-
BECKLEY CORRIDOR, BLACK
BEARS
23. This 60-mile north-
south stretch between the
capital and Beckley now
boasts the highest bear
densities in the state, and
theres plenty of public
land to hunt.
24. Runner-Up Ohio
River: Aggressive stocking
yields big blue catfish.
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ILLINOIS: JIM EDGAR PANTHER
CREEK FISH AND WILDLIFE
AREA, WHITETAILS
25. Antler restrictions and
major habitat projects
have made this 16,000-
acre parcel a top bet for a
public-land trophy.
26. Runner-Up Des
Plaines River: Dam remov-
als boost channel catfish,
pike, and more.
INDIANA: AUSTIN BOTTOMS
CONSERVATION AREA,
MIXED BAG
27. The state just opened
these 2,400 acres of pro-
tected Muscatatuck River
bottomland to deer, turkey,
and waterfowl hunting and
plans to open more.
28. Runner-Up Eagle
Creek Reservoir: New
stocking procedures yield
more walleyes.
IOWA: MISSISSIPPI RIVER
POOLS 1219, WALLEYES
29. A slot limit imposed in
2004 is paying off with
trophy- size walleyes, in-
cluding 10-plus-pounders.
30. Runner-Up St. Marys
Island WMA: New grasses
hold more pheasants.
KANSAS: CHEYENNE BOTTOMS
WILDLIFE AREA, DUCKS
31. Eradicating cattails and
seeding millet and duck
cover on this 19,000-acre
wetland has produced the
best hunting in years.
32. Runner-Up La Cygne
Reservoir: The power-
plant cooling lake grows
heavyweight largemouths.
KENTUCKY: LAKE CUMBER-
LAND, BASS AND TROUT
33. Rising water thats
flooding new growth has
set the stage for a bass
boom above the dam,
while cooler tailwaters
should vastly improve
trout fishing below.
34. Runner-Up Land Be-
tween the Lakes NRA: Bet-
ter habitat for big bucks.
MICHIGAN: UPPER PENINSULA
GEMS, GROUSE
35. Nine U.P. state for-
ests, from Drummond Is-
land to Houghton County,
will become ruffed grouse
gems under a new
Grouse Enhanced Man-
agement System.
36. Runner-Up Little Bay
de Noc: Invasive round go-
bies are making hungry
smallmouths fat.
MINNESOTA: LAKE CHRISTINA,
DUCKS
37. A $2.3 million habitat
restoration project has
this legendary duck stop-
over ready to rebound.
38. Runner-Up Red River:
Dam project boosts big
channel cats and sturgeon.
MISSOURI: LAKE TANEYCOMO,
BROWN TROUT
39. Thanks to aggressive
stocking, 76 percent of
brown trout caught ex-
ceeded 13 inches and 35
percent exceeded 16 in a
2013 creel survey. Many will
reach 20 inches soon.
40. Runner-Up Duck
Creek Conservation Area:
Wetland renovations
promise excellent
waterfowling.
NEBRASKA: PINE RIDGE
WMAs, TURKEYS
41. In partnership with the
National Wild Turkey Fed-
eration, the state is en-
hancing 14,000 acres of
habitat at Gilbert-Baker,
Ponderosa, Chadron Creek
Ranch, Bordeaux Creek,
and Metcalf WMAs. Expect
more birds, better hunting.
42. Runners-Up Lake
Wanahoo and Ed Zorinsky
Reservoir: Nebraskas best
emerging mixed-creel
fisheries, mainly for bass
and bluegills.
NORTH DAKOTA: LAKE SAKA-
KAWEA, PIKE AND WALLEYES
43. Pike are booming
thanks to the massive 2009
spawn, and better forage is
producing trophy walleyes.
44. Runner-Up Missouri
River: Hot late goose hunt-
ing below Garrison Dam.
OHIO: LAKE ERIE, WALLEYES
45. The huge hatch of
2003 has matured, creating
lots of 14-plus- pounders
and prime conditions for a
new state record.
46. Runner-Up Tranquil-
ity Wildlife Area: Public
hunting in a red-hot trophy
whitetail county.
SOUTH DAKOTA: JAMES RIVER
CORRIDOR, PHEASANTS
47. As part of a water-
quality enhancement initia-
tive, farmers have enrolled
85,000 acres of private
land in CRP, all open to
hunting via the states
Walk-In Area Program.
48. Runner-Up Lake
Oahe: Lots of 10- to
20-pound pike.
WISCONSIN: CITIES AND
SUBURBS, WHITETAILS
49. A new law prohibits
banning archery hunting
within city limits. This, plus
the recent legalization of
crossbows for bow season,
will transform Wisconsin
backyard hunts.
50. Runner-Up Driftless
Area: New public access to
world-class trout fishing.
Buck and Cluck
An Adams County, Ohio, deer (No. 46);
Duck Creek, Missouri, geese (No. 40).
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ALABAMA: ALABAMA AND
TOMBIGBEE RIVER SYSTEMS,
CRAPPIES
51. Fish from the banner
crappie spawn of 2010
have matured to slab size,
many topping 15 inches.
52. Runner-Up South-
west Alabama: A brand-
new February deer season
will hit the heart of the
very late rut in this region
of the state.
ARKANSAS: EASTERN ARKAN-
SAS, SPECKLEBELLIES
53. Aerial surveys and har-
vest data show a shift in
wintering areas from the
Gulf Coast to the Delta
rice country, boosting har-
vests in eastern Arkansas.
54. Runner-Up Bull
Shoals Reservoir: High wa-
ter has three species of
bass booming.
FLORIDA: TAMPA BAY WMAs,
WILD HOGS
55. Swine are swarming
public parcels inland from
Tampa. Hunters killed
about three times more
hogs on Green Swamp
WMA last year than on any
other in Florida.
56. Runner-Up Forgotten
Coast: Redfish, speckled
trout, and flounder num-
bers worth remembering.
GEORGIA: SATILLA RIVER,
BREAM
57. High waters led to ex-
cellent survival and
growth but poor catch
rates last seasonsetting
the stage for a banner
bluegill and redbreast sun-
fish season.
58. Runners-Up Albany
Nursery, Elmodel, and
Chickasawhatchee WMAs:
Habitat work will boost
bobwhite quail.
LOUISIANA: MISSISSIPPI
ALLUVIAL VALLEY, WOODCOCK
59. As more farms enroll
in the Wetlands Reserve
Program, eastern Louisi-
ana is becoming a timber-
doodle haven, with lots of
WMAs like Dewey Wills
and Sherburne providing
plenty of access.
60. Runner-Up Lake
Pont chartrain: New artifi-
cial reefs make easy pick-
ings for redfish, flounder,
and speckled trout.
MISSISSIPPI: NESHOBA,
BILL WALLER, AND CALLING
PANTHER LAKES, BASS
61. After 10 years of im-
provements, these state
lakes are now producing
giant first-generation
largemouths. Were talk-
ing bass in the teens.
62. Runners-Up Stone-
ville and Canemount
WMAs: These and other
Delta WMAs are primed to
produce huge bucks.
NORTH CAROLINA: LAKE
MATTAMUSKEET, SWANS
63. Hunting success rates
are soaring for tundra
swans in the Tar Heel
State, where some 70,000
birds winter. The area sur-
rounding this lake in Hyde
County holds the biggest
numbers.
64. Runner-Up Roanoke
River: Biologists are
shocking up huge cow
stripers.
OKLAHOMA: CEDAR LAKE,
BASS
65. Recently renovated by
the U.S. Forest Service,
this 78-acre lake is now
pumping out huge Florida-
strain largemouths, in-
cluding two state-record
bass between March 2012
and March 2013.
66. Runner-Up Cross
Timbers WMA: This 8,135-
acre, newly acquired par-
cel is managed for big
whitetail bucks.
SOUTH CAROLINA: COASTAL
WMAs, DUCKS
67. Intensive manage-
ment has paid off with
highly successful lottery
hunts at select WMAs
along South Carolinas
coast, like 12,000-acre
Bear Island, where last
years hunters averaged
four birds per hunt.
68. Runner-Up Lower Sa-
luda River: Cold water and
liberal stocking is yielding
20-inch trout.
TENNESSEE: CENTER HILL
LAKE, MUSKIES
69. Native muskellunge
are making a comeback in
much of the state but espe-
cially in the headwaters of
Center Hill Lake, thanks to
prime forage and habitat,
plus a 50-inch minimum-
size limit.
70. Runner-Up Bear Hol-
low WMA: Aggressive
management has pro-
duced lots of gobblers.
TEXAS: TRANS-PECOS,
MULE DEER
71. Muley populations
here are responding well
to habitat improvements,
and managers plan to of-
fer more permits and ex-
tended seasons.
72. Runner-Up Guada-
lupe River: Stricter regs
will result in more trophy
rainbow trout.
VIRGINIA:
PIEDMONT REGION, TURKEYS
73. Thanks to consecutive
banner hatches, turkey
numbers appear to be up
by an astounding 25 per-
cent, making this top re-
gion even better.
74. Runner-Up South
Holston Lake: Keeper wall-
eyes (18 inches or better)
now make up almost half
of this lakes catch.
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ALASKA: MAT-SU VALLEY, MOOSE
75. Moose numbers are
rebounding from a brutal
201112 winter. Add a mild
winter, and 2014 could be a
banner year in the valley.
76. Runner-Up Chena
Slough: Restoration proj-
ects will revive the urban
grayling fishery.
ARIZONA: YUMA, DOVES
77. Changing farm prac-
tices on the Colorado
floodplain combined with
ideal roosting cover have
created a dove mecca here.
Bag limit could rise to 15.
78. Runner-Up Canyon
Creek: Brown trout are re-
sponding to improved
spawning habitat.
CALIFORNIA: SAN FRANCISCO
BAY, DUCKS
79. Tens of thousands of
acres of sterile salt flats
have been transformed
into fertile wetlands
opening hunting areas that
hadnt been accessible in
more than 100 years.
80. Runner-Up Upper
Klamath River: Down-
stream quota could send
more salmon upstream.
COLORADO: UPPER
ARKANSAS RIVER, TROUT
81. Once a Superfund
cleanup site, 102 miles of
the reborn river was re-
cently designated a Gold
Medal trout fishery.
82. Runners-Up Routt and
Grand Counties: Pine bee-
tles improved elk habitat.
HAWAII: BIG ISLAND,
BOWFISHING
83. Incredible inshore
bowfishing is taking off on
shallow reefs for parrot
fish, unicorn fish, and other
tropical species.
84. Runner-Up Lanai Is-
land: Guaranteed bow tags
for burgeoning axis deer.
IDAHO: SOUTHEASTERN IDAHO,
PHEASANTS
85. A 2,700-acre Pheasants
Forever acquisition now
connects Camas NWR and
Mud Lake WMA, creating a
contiguous 21,000 acres of
managed pheasant habitat.
86. Runner-Up Boise
River: Redband trout
rebound.
MONTANA: BLACKFOOT RIVER,
CUTTHROAT TROUT
87. Twenty-five-year con-
servation project hits mile-
stone: Native westslope
cutts are now 10 times
more abundant than when
improvements began.
88. Runner-Up Region 4:
More cow elk, more tags.
NEVADA: LAKE TAHOE, TROUT
89. Drought is emptying
Nevadas lakes, leaving fish-
eries managers with some
400,000 fingerling trout
and few places to put them.
Comparatively deep Lake
Tahoe will likely receive a
bulk of the stockings.
90. Runner-Up Selenite
Range: Chukar numbers
have nearly doubled.
NEW MEXICO: QUEMADO LAKE,
TIGER MUSKIES
91. Quemado, first stocked
a decade ago, now holds an
age class of tiger muskies
capable of setting a new
state record.
92. Runner-Up Gila Na-
tional Forest: Turkeys are
weathering the drought
better here.
OREGON: COLUMBIA RIVER,
CHINOOK SALMON
93. Habitat enhance-
ment, dam overspill, and
La Nia should create ex-
ceptional smolt survival
rates. The projected result
is a record run of 1.6 mil-
lion kings up the Columbia
River this fall.
94. Runners-Up Curry,
Jackson, and Josephine
Counties: Forest grouse
and mountain quail num-
bers are well up.
UTAH: HUNTINGTON NORTH
RESERVOIR, WIPERS
95. Hybrid bass were
stocked here in 2009 to
control Utah chubs, and
theyve been gorging since.
Expect to hear rumors of
10-pound wipers soon.
96. Runner-Up Great Salt
Lake: Far better access to
great waterfowl hunting.
WASHINGTON: KITTITAS
COUNTY, ELK
97. With the Yakima and
Colockum elk herds well
above management objec-
tives, state officials are
handing out additional
tagsand three-quarters
of this county is public land.
98. Runner-Up Potholes
Reservoir: Panfish thriving
in newly flooded habitat.
WYOMING: LARAMIE PLAINS
LAKES, RAINBOW TROUT
99. Fast-growing rainbows
are being saved from the
threat of winterkill by aera-
tors installed in waters
such as Meeboer Lake. Sur-
viving fish could top the
6-pound mark.
100. Runner-Up Bighorn
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TO TRACK THE BIRDS EVERY MOVE AND LEARN ABOUT
WHAT GOES ON INSIDE THOSE LITTLE RED HEADS. WHAT
THEYVE DISCOVERED SO FAR MAY CHANGE MUCH OF WHAT
YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW ABOUT TURKEY HUNTING
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Gobblers answered every crack. Within
an hour, 23 jakes and hens passed by the
blind at 20 yards or less, but not a single
mature bird joined the parade. Instead, the
big toms stayed put, hung up in a ribbon
of cottonwoods and live oaks, answering
thunder with thunder.
Out front, the young males shook rain
off their feathers like Labrador retrievers.
More thunder followed and more gob-
blers responded, their calls now fading
as the toms turned their tails toward us
and struck out in the opposite direction
from the other turkeys. Turkey hunters
everywhere would be able to feel my pain.
Theres just no way to get inside the head
of a wild tom. Except: Decoding the gob-
blers brain was the reason Id come here.
THE WILD TURKEY LAB
Where did they go? Did I bust the roost?
Botch the call? What makes a wild turkey
do what a wild turkey does? These are
the questions that keep turkey hunters
up at nightquestions that biologists are
pursuing with an innovative new push
in wild turkey research. Using high-tech
devices, such as tiny backpack GPS units,
satellite imagery, and computers running
algorithms that ingest enormous amounts
of data, university scientists and agency bi-
ologists are beginning to get a look inside
a gobblers brain. Theyre teasing apart
the factors that drive a turkeys selection
of brooding, nesting, and roosting habitat,
and theyre drilling down on the specifics
of how wild turkeys react to humans and
how hunting pressure affects turkey move-
ment and behavior.
This new wave of science, says Bret
Collier, a professor at Texas A&M Univer-
sity and a serious hunter, is filling in some
of the most significant gaps in our knowl-
edge about wild turkeys. Were watching
turkeys do stuff we never thought turkeys
would do.
The work is taking place across wild
turkey country in the Southfrom South
Carolina to Louisiana to the vast Cross
Timbers region of north Texas, where I
showed up for three days last April. Col-
lier oversees much of the groundbreaking
GPS research here at the private MT7
Ranch, 13,000 acres of rangelands about
140 miles west of Dallas. Owned by Dal-
las businessman and philanthropist Mike
Terry, MT7 Ranch functions as a family
retreat, hunting camp, and unofficial
research station for university scientists,
resource-agency personnel, and biologists
with groups such as the National Wild
Turkey Federation.
The ranch is thick with Rio Grande tur-
keys. Over the last few seasons on MT7,
Collier and other researchers have outfit-
ted scores of birds with small GPS units
that strap on like a backpack. In the past,
traditional VHF radio telemetry required
field staff to patrol the ranch, acquiring
signals with a cumbersome antenna and
receiver that gave only a rough approxima-
tion of the turkeys locations. Once these
GPS units are placed, though, the birds
are released and records of their where-
abouts can be taken as frequently as the
researcher desires. There is one downside:
In order to pull data, the birds must be ei-
ther recaptured or killed. But the next gen-
eration of GPS units is becoming available
that will allow data downloads wirelessly
from as far as 1,000 meters away.
Until recently, turkey research had
stagnated, said Mike Chamberlain, a
wildlife professor at the University of
Georgia and another pioneer in this field
of GPS-based research. We now have
the chance to reinvent the wheel and learn
things we never could learn before.
For turkey hunters, all of this brings
good and bad news: The good? More
knowledge is always better. The bad?
One thing were learning, Collier said,
is that the birds are smarter than we are.
ODD BIRDS
One afternoon I hit the ranchs back roads
with Mason Conley, Colliers graduate
student on the MT7 Ranch project. Con-
ley drove a research truck sporting a giant
telemetry antenna protruding through the
roof. We cruised through steppelike grass-
lands that sprawled in a mosaic of skunk-
bush and scattered mesquite, mesas thick
with live oak, and creekbottoms timbered
with cedar, cottonwood, elm, and the pen-
cil cactus Texans call tasajillo.
Love was in the air. In an hour we
spotted plenty of hens and jakes and a
half dozen strutting toms, fans ruffling in
the wind like full-blown Plains Indian
headdresses. At any given time, Conley
tracked between 30 and 40 birds, a couple
outfitted with newer wireless GPS units,
others wearing VHF transmitters. That
data was then fed into algorithms written
to quantify specific questions: How much
time do hens spend looking for nest sites?
NE THING SORRIER LOOKING THAN A SOPPING-
WET JAKE IN THE GRAY LIGHT OF A RAINY DAWN IS
THE SIGHT OF SIX SOPPING-WET JAKES, SKULKING
AROUND A HEN DECOY LIKE VULTURES AROUND
ROADKILL. WE HAD DODGED THE FORECASTED
2-INCH HAIL BUT CAUGHT THE REST OF A FREAK TEXAS
SPRING STORMSHEETS OF RAIN, 30-MPH WINDS,
AND A RAW TEMPERATURE OF 32 DEGREES. HUNKERED
DOWN IN A GROUND BLIND OF MESQUITE AND CEDAR,
I SHIVERED. THE RAINDROPS ON THE GREEN BOUGHS
GLISTENED LIKE CHRISTMAS LIGHTS. THE CRAZIEST
PART, THOUGH, WAS THE THUNDER, WHICH ROLLED
OVER THE NORTH-CENTRAL PLAINS.
WE NOW HAVE THE CHANCE TO LEARN
THINGS WE NEVER COULD BEFORE.
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BECOME BETTER HUNTERS
Hunt turkeys like deer. People
dont treat turkey hunting access the
same way as they do approaching a deer
stand, and thats a huge problem, John
Gross says. Turkeys pattern hunters
pretty quickly. While scent is not a
concern, turkey hunters should avoid
crossing elds and use alternate routes
to get into position.
Make a move on private-land
toms. Im not going to sit back and
wait anymore, Mason Conley says. If
a bird hasnt been hammered by other
hunters, make a move. Boom or bust,
Im going to be more proactive. If I hear
a bird and he doesnt respond, Im mov-
ing in on him.
Sit tight on pressured turkeys.
Often, birds will just clam up once hunt-
ers stir the pot. Lots of data show that
hunters will call, then move away from
birds before the birds get to them,
Bret Collier says. Just because theyre
quiet doesnt mean theyre henned up.
On public lands or hard-hunted private
tracts, stay put.
Dont overscout. If I controlled
a piece of land, I wouldnt scout too
much, says Gross. Theres just too
much of a chance that a mature gobbler
will scatter. T.E.N.
ing, the data shows that when pressured,
some turkeys hunker down, while others
fly the coop to set up shop elsewhere. The
challenge is that no matter which strategy
the birds employ, their behavior changes
once turkey season opens. One thing that
is very consistent is how quickly they learn
that there are hunters in the woods, Gross
said. Dont fool yourself: The turkeys
know you are there, and they know you
are not a turkey.
Several birds have illustrated that flight-
or-stay-out-of-sight choice, but Chamber-
lain had told me about one turkeyMale
240in particular. That bird showed us
just how far a turkey will move to get out
of the way of hunters, he recalled. Outfit-
ted with a GPS unit, Male 240 roamed the
dense forests of Sherburne Wildlife Man-
agement Area, deep in southern Louisi-
anas Atchafalaya Basin. On the opening
morning of a youth hunt, as a few permit
holders entered the woods, Male 240 hit
the road and traveled 1,000 meters north
of the areas where hed been ranging.
Forty-eight hours later, the gobbler shifted
another 800 meters north. He then stayed
put, at least for the time being. When the
general hunting season opened up two
days later, as many as 50 permitted hunt-
ers poured into the swamp woods. Male
240 didnt stick around. This time he put
an additional 2,000 meters between him
and the hunters. All told, within a week,
What specific habitats do they choose?
How often do hens leave an active nest?
How long are they gone? How many
encounters do wild turkeys have to have
with hunters before they abandon an area?
If you bump a bird from a roost, does it
return? If not, how far does it go?
The answers are just now starting to
take shape, but already theres enough
data to make Conley reconsider his
own hunting methods. Growing up in
Mississippi, he chased turkeys with a
Remington 870 and took a conservative
approach. Tracking Rio Grandes with
GPS equipment, he tells me, has changed
how he thinks about turkey hunting. Hes
watched dozens of birds sit tight for day
after day. Im definitely going to be more
proactive, he said. My dad and I talked
about this, and last year he worked out,
got in shape, was much more aggressive,
and killed two birds in Missouri. Hes
convinced he needs to move in on them,
and it paid off.
Of course, if theres one thing turkey
hunters and turkey biologists can agree on,
its that every wild tom has a mind of its
own. There is a lot of variability in how
turkeys respond to humans, said John
Gross, a graduate student working under
Chamberlain at the University of Georgia.
In the last two years, Gross has tracked 18
birds outfitted with GPS units, logging
39,766 separate locations. Broadly speak-
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found. Whereas many birds shift to put at
least some distance between themselves
and encroaching humans, Male 780 put
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bird, Gross said. For that one gobbler, 46
percent of 377 locations recorded during
the hunting season were taken when a
hunter was within 100 meters. Hunters
were on top of him all season long, Gross
said. He was surrounded by hunters for
days, and no one ever killed him. We all
know theres a lot of variability in turkey
behavior but, man, some turkeys are just a
whole lot harder to kill than others.
Like another bird that bamboozled me
in Texas. Late one morning, Josh Flem-
ing and I sat against a double-trunked
mesquite that leaned forward just enough
so that no position was comfortable for
more than six seconds. We sat there for 40
minutes, hardly moving, pinned down by
an obstinate gobbler that refused to leave a
little patch of broomweed maybe 80 yards
away. After 53 minutes, the gobbler had
closed the distance twice to 60 yards, each
time raising my blood pressure, before
retreating back to his little happy place.
They dont get big by being dumb,
Fleming whispered. In one hour, that
turkey gobbled at least 80 times, all within
100 yards of my unhappy place, all while
responding to our calls, before he shuffled
off into the cedars. Wed had a perfect
setup. We were crazy-close to a gobbler so
hot and vocal he must have had to gargle
saltwater after our encounter. But he il-
lustrated one of the nonscientific findings
of gobbler hunters everywhere: There are
times you cant even buy a turkey.
GOING OUT WITH A BANG
And then there are times when what goes
through a turkeys mind is as plain as day.
On my last morning at MT7 Ranch,
Clint Faas, a ranch biologist, and I struck
out for a run-and-gun hunt. Our plan was
to cover groundhit likely spots with a
quick calling sequence and, if nothing
happened, jump in the truck and strike out
for another promising area.
Sunlight was barely washing over the
broomgrass and tasajillo cacti as we made
our way through scattered post oaks. Faas
pulled up short and squeaked a weak yelp
from his slate call. And that was all it took.
Gobble.
Faas looked at me: You heard that,
right? I didnt have time to even squeeze
in a nod. The turkey gobbled again, and
already hed cut the distance in half. Faas
and I scattered like quail and flopped to
the ground. I crawled to a live oak as Faas
vanished into the grass behind me. The
tom gobbled again, and again. This bird
was on a dead run. I scooched my knees
up and settled the shotgun just as I spot-
ted one gobbler and then another, high-
stepping in at 11 oclock. They were 25
yards out. Faas never made another peep.
At 20 yards one bird stopped, cocked his
head, and fixed me with a stare. I didnt
need a computer program to hear what he
was thinking: That doesnt look right
The data is coming in fast, shedding
light on all the variables that make a turkey
tick. But when theres sex on the brain,
deep in the turkey woods, its as simple as
it gets. It took less than three minutes to
solve this equation. Daylight, hen yelp,
gobble-gobble, get down, bang.
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opener, as well as throughout the season. Despite having access to the entire area, hunters
stuck very close to the trailsa fact that researcher Bret Collier thinks pushed the bird off
the WMA. So, what can this bird teach public-land hunters? Get off the roads, Collier says.
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THE PEBBLE MINE PROPOSAL WILL DIE
The EPA has now invoked the Clean Water Act against the proposed and potentially catastrophic Pebble Mine
in the headwaters of Alaskas Bristol Bay region, the most prolific wild salmon and trout fishery in the world.
The vast majority of native people there oppose the project, and a key company involved has pulled out. Soon,
the U.S. government will stand up and preserve this resource for the benefit of sportsmen, and the protection
of Bristol Bay will go down as one of the seminal conservation events in American history. Kirk Deeter
Q TECHNOLOGY WILL MAKE YOU
TOASTYAND LESS STRAPPED
Youll be wearing and shooting:
NANOINSULATION
Forget electronics. The real innova-
tion in extreme cold-weather pro-
tection is Aerogel, the planets best
known thermal insulator, which has
been converted into an ultrathin
clothing liner via nanotechnology
and is available in camo hunting
garments through Shiver Shield
(shivershield.com). David Draper
AFFORDABLE ALLOYS
In the race to find a cost-effective,
high-performance substitute for
lead, Advanced Ballistic Concepts
believes it has already crossed the
tape for target loads with its Zueril-
lium Alloy bullets (a.k.a. Green Lead;
mibullet.com). The company is cur-
rently working on hunting-load ap-
plications. And it is hardly alone.
Dave Hurteau
Q CROSSBOWS WILL
TRANSFORM BOW SEASONS
With 24 states now allowing cross-
bows for all hunters during part of
or the entire archery season (and
more planning to), some manufac-
turers are seeing 50 to 100 percent
sales growth per year. Meanwhile,
bow-season participation in
crossbow- friendly states is sharply
up. Take Connecticut: In 2013, the
states first full bow season allowing
crossbows, archery license sales in-
creased more than 10 percent and
archers took more deer than gun
hunters for the first time ever. Like
it or not, vertical-compound-bow
hunters will soon be dubbed tradi-
tionalists, and the relative calm and
light competition that has defined
bow season will be changed for-
ever. The upside: Archery seasons
will no longer discriminate against
those who cannot physically pull
the legal minimum vertical-bow
draw weight. D.H.
QTHE D.I.Y. AFRICAN ADVENTURE WILL RETURN
Across many of Frances former colonies in western and central
Africa, there is now a system called chasse libre: A hunter buys a
license, secures a hunting area, assembles trackers and skinners,
and sets out on his own. The game can range from bongo in rain
forests to giant eland and buffalo on the savanna, at prices far be-
low those charged by professional hunters.
I hunted this way during 10 days in January, with the help of
outfitter Cam Greig (selfguidedafrica.com). I was free of a PH
hovering over me and telling me what to shoot. In short, it was
African hunting as in days of yore. Thomas McIntyre
QAnglers looking for bigger thrills will embrace the toothy
Asian imports, long reviled as voracious predators bent on
wiping out American gamefish (as well as any miniature poo-
dles that get too close to the waterline).
Already, guides like Virginias Steve Chaconas, who books
150 trips a year on the Potomac, see clients who target
snakeheads exclusively. Theyre usually bass fishermen
who want a bigger jolt, Chaconas says. With biologists con-
cluding that snakeheads can coexist with bass, and with
chefs putting them on menus, the invasive species will join
carp in going from hated to hot. Steven Hill
SNAKEHEADS WILL
BE THE NEW CARP
QHuntings traditional
demographicrural, white
malesdwindles every year.
Urban hipsters, suburban lo-
cavores, homesteaders, and
others who have recently
come to care (as we always
have) where our food comes
from will be huntings new
blood.
Hunting for food is the old-
est idea of all, but its also a
trend: A recent study shows
the number of hunters who
cite filling the freezer as the
chief reason they hunt in-
creased from 22 to 35 percent
since 2006. Theres even an-
ecdotal evidence of
vegetarians allowing wild
meat in their dietsand don-
ning camo to get it.
Phil Bourjaily
HIPSTERS WILL
HELP HUNTING
PSE WILL MAKE A 400-FPS COMPOUND BOW. D.H. FORTY YARDS WILL BE THE NEW 30 FOR ARCHERS. D.H. BRASS CASES WILL BE REPLACED BY POLYCARBONATE, WHICH WILL BURN WITH
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F I E L D & S T R E A M W H A T S N E X T
THE JAPANESE
WAY WILL
BECOME THE
AMERICAN WAY
QYup, Japan again. Because
most bass lakes there are
crazy overpressured, Japa-
nese anglers are masters of
finesse fishing, and Japa-
nese lures are ultrarealis-
ticthey need to be. Here
in the U.S., many destination
lakes that coughed up big
numbers of hog bass 10
years ago are no longer so
obliging. The likely cause
isnt a growing number of
anglers but that the Internet
makes it way easier to track
good bites, leading to an in-
flux of fishermen at the hot-
test spots. Going forward,
instead of throwing the
same crankbaits that
hooked slobs in years past,
anglers will have to embrace
subtler techniques aimed at
fooling wary bass thatlike
those in Japanhave seen
it all. Joe Cermele
A SCOUTING DRONE
Hog hunters already use them;
Colorado has already banned
them. For less than $500 you
can order a shoe-box-size UAS
(unmanned aerial system) with
live video controls. They even
come in camo. Trail cameras are
so 2008. Michael R. Shea
A SMARTPHONE THAT TELLS
YOU WHERE TO HUNT
Coming programs, like HuntSoft
(huntsoft.com), will pattern
deer activity via wireless trail
camera pics and sync it all with a
custom map of your property to
tell you exactly where to place
your treestand. Will Brantley
A REMINGTON 700 THAT
ALMOST AIMS FOR YOU
Ballistic-compensating aiming
systems, like Remingtons 2020
(remington.com), will take much
of the skill out of accurate shoot-
ing. Unless banned, they will be-
come cheaper, simpler, and
more prevalent. David Draper
Like it or not, heres what will be in the tech-savvy hunters gear closet:
TECHNOLOGY WILL MAKE IDIOTS OF US ALL
MODERN SPORTING RIFLES WILL TAKE OVER
They will surpass bolt-action models as the preferred sporting rifle. In 2013,
20 percent of all firearms sold were MSRs, compared with just 14 percent traditional sporting rifles, ac-
cording to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, which further predicts that MSR-owning target
shooters will increasingly expand into hunting. Meanwhile, the number of hunting calibers available in
MSRs seems to double yearly. The lever action and pump will ultimately vanish. David E. Petzal
Q SUPPRESSORS WILL BE LEGAL TO
OWN IN 46 STATES
So-called silencers, which reduce
noise levels below a safe 140-decibel
threshold, are currently legal to own
in 39 states and are legal for hunting
in 30. Thanks to intense public-
education campaigns, that number
will increase to include all states ex-
cept California, Hawaii, New Jersey,
and Massachusetts by 2020.
Suppressors are where ARs
were 10 years ago, says Knox Wil-
liams of the American Silencer Asso-
ciation. In 1999, there were 83,627
suppressors in the U.S. As of April
2013, there were 494,452. Suppres-
sors are the future. Jeff Johnston
QTHE NEXT WORLD-RECORD LARGEMOUTH WILL COME FROM LAKE BIWA
Google the current co-world-record bass (and other gi-
ants) caught from Japans Lake Biwa and see how over-
stuffed it looks. That outrageous girth comes from an un-
usual abundance of large, fatty forage like trout, bluegills,
eels, ayu, and several varieties of carp. And theres more to
it than food. Biwa also has a strong mix of water clarity, tem-
peratures, depths, and vegetation and other cover that
supports fast, excessive bass growth. So while certain lakes
in California or Texas could theoretically produce a record-
size fish, the odds are far better at Biwa, where all of the crit-
ical factors are aligned perfectly right now to produce an
abundance of mega bass weighing more than 20 pounds.
One of them could well break through. Dave Wolak
THE POWDER CHARGE. D.E.P. CONVENTIONAL PRIMERS WILL BE REPLACED BY ELECTRONIC IGNITION. D.E.P. THE 6.5MM WILL FINALLY WIN OVER AMERICAN HUNTERS. D.H.
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IOWA BEGIN TO DECLINE, UP-AND-COMERS
WILL TAKE THEIR PLACE, INCLUDING:
1. INDIANA
Already producing huge nontyps, the Hoosier State
is loaded with ag and has a one-buck yearly limit.
2. IDAHO AND WASHINGTON
Tremendous mountain bucks see so little hunting
pressure in some places that theyre dying of old
age, say B&C insiders.
3. MICHIGAN
Brimming with potential, the Wolverine State has re-
cently adopted antler-point restrictions, and more
hunters are voluntarily passing up young bucks.
4. OKLAHOMA
Home to easy winters, the Sooner State has huge
blocks of habitat that can be managed for big deer.
5. MISSISSIPPI
The Magnolia State now leads the nation in percent-
age of mature bucks in the harvest. Scott Bestul
CWD WILL GET WORSE AND WORSE
While epizootic hemorrhagic disease grabs the headlines, chronic wasting disease is old news that makes folks
fall gently to sleep. But whereas EHD is annual and localized, CWD is persistent and spreading. While weve been
snoozing, its gotten far worse. In Wisconsins CWD core area, the percentage of 2
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2-year-old or older bucks with
the disease has jumped from 7 or 8 percent in 2002 to over 20 percent today, according to the QDMA. In some
western states, more than 30 percent of the population is infected. Theres still no cure or vaccine. D.H.
SLEEPER
WHITETAIL
STATES WILL
AWAKEN
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These long-gone gamebirds will again darken the skies. As huge
flocks take hold in mature eastern forests, hunting seasons will
open sometime in the late 22nd century.
Ever since Dolly the sheep was successfully cloned in 1996,
researchers have turned their attention to reviving extinct spe-
cies. Currently, the genetics research firm Revive and Restore is
sequencing passenger pigeon DNA from museum specimens.
The next step will be adding passenger pigeon genes to those of
a closely related bird, probably the bandtail pigeon. P.B.
Bonus Prediction: Texas will be the first state to allow dino-
saur hunting. D.D.
THE CAPTIVE-DEER INDUSTRY WILL BECOME THE SINGLE GREATEST THREAT TO DEER HUNTING AS WE KNOW IT. S.B. BASS FISHING WILL BE A MAJOR COLLEGE SPORT (AT LEAST BIGGER THAN
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F&S: So, Eva, whats next?
E.S.: Id say women are. Compared to just last
year, the number of women I meetyoung
girls, teenagers, moms with babies, older
womenwho tell me they hunt or are taking
up hunting is incredible. Bass Pro Shops
owner Johnny Morris recently told me that
the sale of womens products was just 3 per-
cent of his business 10 years ago, and now its
30 percent. Women are coming on full force.*
F&S: Why do you think that is?
E.S.: We have so many more platforms now.
Outdoor Channel. A&E. Shows that depict
hunting have become mainstream, so people
are more accepting of it. When those shows
feature women in the outdoors, other women
feel more welcome and accepted.
F&S: Do you see yourself as a role model to
these new hunters?
E.S.: I think of myself more as just being relat-
able. Im the same as a lot of these girls I talk
to. My dad was smart enough to pick up a
camera and take it hunting 15 years ago, so,
yes, we now have a camera in front of us all
the time, but otherwise were just like any
family that hunts together.
F&S: Obviously the camera loves you. How
do you handle all the attention from men?
E.S.: Its an honor. Im not doing anything
scandalousI keep all my clothes onand
I try to make decisions that, if I had a daugh-
ter, Id want her to make. If people think
thats attractive, especially in full camo, I
think thats great. I take it as a compliment.
F&S: Will more women hunters get their own
TV shows, rather than being some dudes
sidekick?
E.S.: Definitely. Thats happening now and
its only going to get bigger. Remember, a lot
of those sidekicks are very capable in their
own right and could have very successful
shows of their own.
F&S SI TS DOWN WI TH THE COHOST OF
JI M SHOCKEY S HUNTI NG ADVENTURES,
WOMEN S ADVOCATE AND RI SI NG
STAR EVA SHOCKEY, TO DI SCUSS
HUNTI NG S FUTURE
I NTERVI EW BY MI CHAEL R. SHEA
*Gender Gap Increase in hunting participation from 2008 to 2012,
according to the NSSF: male, 1.9 percent; female, 10 percent (from
3.04 million to 3.35 million)
Women Wll Rise
LACROSSE). D.W. FLY-ROD MANUFACTURERS WILL DUMP THE LIFETIME WARRANTY. K.D. COLORADO AND UTAH WILL BE THE NEXT BATTLEGROUNDS IN THE WOLF WARS. D.D.
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FLYFISHERMEN WILL GO JUNGLE
No place on Earth has as much raw fishing potential as the inte-
rior of South America, where the jungle-fishing scene is set to
explode as indigenous tribes open vast expanses of untamed
waters. For adventurous anglers seeking arapaima, pacu, yator-
ana, arowana, and payara, the waters of Brazil, Bolivia, Venezu-
ela, and Guyana will be the worlds next hotspots. K.D.
OBITUARIES
10-Gauge
Born in 1932, the 10 devel-
oped a cult following among
goose and turkey hunters,
but the lighter, more versa-
tile 3
1
2-inch 12 ultimately
killed it. The 10 will be missed
for its generous case capac-
ity and excellent patterns.
P.B.
Zombies
These shuffling, putrescent
blobs of defunct protoplasm
will finally be allowed to rest
in peace after providing
amusement for the termi-
nally bored and profits for
the firearms industry, which
again proved H.L. Menckens
observation that no one
ever went broke underesti-
mating the taste of the
American public. D.E.P.
Lead
Lead as projectile fodder
goes back to the Romans,
but it couldnt last forever.
Lead is, like, nasty, and its,
like, killing the condors. Or
something. Lead will soon be
only a memory, like face-to-
face conversation. D.E.P.
Duck Dynasty
Though political correct-
ness was suspected, Duck
Commander CEO Willie
Robertson killed the $500
million brand in 2015 to pre-
serve its legacy. It is survived
by Uncle Sis nonbiodegrad-
able iced-tea cup. J.J.
PETZALS
FIVE DIRE
WARNINGS
1
Running on a National
War on Guns platform,
Hillary Clinton will win the
presidency over Republi-
can nominee Rand Paul by
the greatest margin in
American history. She will
dissolve Congress, declare
the NRA a terrorist orga-
nization, and create a na-
tional firearms registry,
headed by the same firm
that constructed the
Obamacare website.
2
Former Vice President
Joe Biden, unable to se-
cure work as a lobbyist, will
open a defensive-shooting
academy.
3
With nearly all young
hunters unable to walk
more than 100 yards, DNRs
will allow hunting by drone
(see Technology Will Make
Idiots of Us All, p. 67).
4
The Sixth Great Extinc-
tion will begin in earnest.
5
Boone and Crockett
and Pope and Young
will recognize trophies of
surviving species that have
adapted to climate change,
including the coyote, ar-
madillo, nutria, possum,
feral pig, and jackrabbit.
David E. Petzal
FS
QSUMMER BASS WEIGH-INS WILL END
The long boat rides and warm live-well water associated with
traditional tournament weigh-ins can kill fish, especially in sum-
mer. Thats why many local bass clubs and college fishing teams
have voluntarily switched to paper weigh-ins, where competi-
tors measure each caught fish, use a standard conversion for-
mula to record its weight on a printed form, then immediately
release their catch. With reports and complaints on the rise
about fish floating belly-up following traditional onshore
weigh-ins, going to paper is the next logical step. Don Wirth
Q UPS AND DOWNS
V UP: Pheasants
EPA-mandated buffer strips along
waterways will become widespread
and support more birds. P.B.
W DOWN: Ducks
Extensive habitat loss in the Dakotas
and energy exploration spells trou-
ble. Add drought, and well be right
back to a one-mallard limit. P.B.
V UP: Native Trout
True Colorado greenbacks, New
Mexico Gila trout, and Yellowstone
cutthroats are all on the rise. K.D.
W DOWN: Turkeys
Turkey numbers are down 15 per-
cent nationally, and as much as 40
percent in some states. Well still
have solid hunting, but the salad
days are over. S.B.
V UP: Carp
With the number of U.S. carp anglers
now topping 3 million, this so-called
trash species will soon be among
Americas top five sportfish. K.D.
W DOWN: Whitetail Deer
Overcorrective management, in-
creased predation, and EHD has har-
vests down by as much as 40 per-
cent in some top states. Passion for
whitetails remains high, though, and
that will save us from the much-
predicted whitetail crash. D.H.
QTHERE WILL BE A
WATER CRISIS
Faced with a choice of
providing water for fish
and wildlife or for homes,
schools, and factories,
what will America do?
For years, ecologists
have warned wed even-
tually have to answer this
question because uncon-
trolled development has
been draining aquifers
across the nation. But
now the worst drought in
500 years is gripping Cali-
fornia, and in much of the
West that decision has
moved from the future
to the present.
With water levels pre-
dicted to continue to
drop in many parts of the
country due to climate
change, sportsmens
groups will face their big-
gest political battle ever.
Fish and wildlife can live
on fewer acres. They
cant live without water.
Bob Marshall
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Can cheap sunglasses perform well on the
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A great pair of polarized fishing sunglasses can go $200, easy. But if like many anglers you
cant keep from sitting on them or dropping them off the dock or leaving them at the diner
counter, you dont want to spend that much. Just for you, I tested four pairs that cost $30 or less to
learn which offers the best glare reduction, fish-spotting capabilities, durability, and comfort.
T H E T E S T
BARGAIN RATING: Very good
LENS COLOR: Mirrored amber
POLARIZATION: Very good
CONSTRUCTION: Very good
SCRATCH RESISTANCE: Fair
COMFORT: Excellent
COMMENTS: The Boltons have nice, wide lenses, which
provide excellent peripheral coverage, and yet they are very
lightweight. I experienced slight pressure from the earpieces
but nothing that made them hard to wear. Overall, perfor-
mance on the water was very respectable, although these
being the darkest lenses, I got the best underwater view only
during the sunniest times. That dark tint did, however, make
them excellent for driving a boat or car. Earpiece holes allow
for a thick-mono or fly-line-backing neck lanyard.
BARGAIN RATING: Fair
LENS COLOR: Amber green mirror
POLARIZATION: Good
CONSTRUCTION: Good
SCRATCH RESISTANCE: Fair
COMFORT: Poor
COMMENTS: Maybe its the shape of my head, but I was
constantly pushing these up the bridge of my nose, and it
felt like theyd slip off whenever I leaned forward. Typically,
a mirrored finish doesnt overshadow or drastically change
the basic lens color. But it did with these. The combo of green
mirror and amber lenses gave the world a bluish tone that
made everything appear too bright for my liking. The polari-
zation was good, especially during cloudy periods, but these
couldnt match the others for underwater clarity.
BERKLEY BOLTON
$24.99; BERKLEY-FISHING.COM
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Polarization: In
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visibility of under-
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and lures.
Construction: To
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twisted the frames.
Scratch Resis-
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kitchen sponge, then
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Comfort: I evalu-
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the earpieces and
nose bridges, as
well as how tightly
or loosely each pair
hugged my face.
J.C.
BARGAIN RATING: Excellent
LENS COLOR: Clear amber
POLARIZATION: Excellent
CONSTRUCTION: Excellent
SCRATCH RESISTANCE: Good
COMFORT: Very good
COMMENTS: The SKP10 glasses had the best polarization
of the lotI could track my lures underwater from greater
distances, even through faster runs and riffles. They had ter-
rific glare reduction and good contrast both on the water and
on the road while driving. They hugged my face nicely and
didnt slip. The frames felt solidly made, the hinges were tight
and smooth, and the lenses weathered my scratch test with
the least damage. Provided you dont step on them, these
shades should serve you well for a good long time.
STRIKE KING SKP10
$22.99; STRIKEKING.COM
BARGAIN RATING: Excellent
LENS COLOR: Clear amber
POLARIZATION: Excellent
CONSTRUCTION: Excellent
SCRATCH RESISTANCE: Poor
COMFORT: Excellent
COMMENTS: In terms of comfort, the Stripers took the
win. The frames are nice and wide, the arms gripped the sides
of my head snugly without creating pressure points, and the
vented rubber nose pad is a nice touch. Excellent polarization
provided good contrast and glare reduction for a crisp, clear
look below the surface of the stream. The lenses are fairly
dark, which helped combat direct sunlight on the water and
while driving. The Stripers did scratch more easily than the
others, so take extra care if you buy.
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THE LOWDOWN The X2 also received rave reviews and
tied for first place with the Badlands 2200. Simple, ef-
ficient, and very flexible, said Magaziner. He liked this
packs batwing feature, too, calling it a valuable asset.
Young said, The design of the pack helps it stand up
on the ground rather than flopping over. This was handy
in terrain where there was nothing to lean it against. He
appreciated the generously sized hip-suspension pock-
ets, as well as the numerous exterior lash points.
Sofianek used the bag on a three-night hunt. I was
able to pack a tent, sleeping bag, food, clothes, and bow-
hunting gear for a one-man spike camp, he said, noting
that the X2s design allows for air flow between the pack
and your back, which made for a far more comfortable
and dryclimb. And the external tie-down options
helped him carry an elk quarter on his initial trip out.
HITS Stands up to hard use in the field. Belt
MISSES Side pockets are not deep enough for Nalgene
bottles. Young
he hardcore
hunter who
climbs high and
may hunt for several
days straightand who
hopes to carry meat out
on his backneeds a
serious pack. It should be
lightweight yet rugged,
with an internal frame
that distributes weight
evenly across the shoul-
ders and hips. The main
storage compartment
must be roomy and easy
to access. Dedicated gear
pockets and sturdy, quiet
zippers are a plus. We
gave four Western
hunters four packs to use
over an entire season as
they chased elk and
mule deer to see which
performed best.
Badlands 2200
$270; BADLANDSPACKS.COM
+ + + + +
Eberlestock X2
$189; EBERLESTOCK.COM
+ + + + +
SPECS 2,250 cu. in. 5 lb. 4 oz.
THE LOWDOWN Testers loved how this pack let them
carry lots of gear comfortably all day. Its easy to load
and unload, Sofianek said. Zippers worked well and
can be tucked in to reduce noise. And it carried my heavy
gear with ease, including a blind, folding stool, and bow.
The pack has more pockets than you expect for its
size, and it comes with its own hydration bladder, which
is a bonus, Magaziner said. He was a fan of the innovative
batwing-style side pocket assemblies, which can buckle
tight to the pack or open up like wings, providing extra
space to lash gear such as a heavy jacket.
Calling the pack well made and rugged, Young praised
the sturdy, quiet material and the back-panel zipper: Be-
ing able to access the main compartment through the
back of the pack is a neat trick; conventional access can
be so cumbersome. Belt really liked the built-in, blaze-
orange meat shelf for packing out meat with your gear.
HITS The mother of all packs. Belt
MISSES Top carry loop is annoying. Young
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Four high-
country hunters
chased elk and
mule deer all
season with
these packs.
Heres what
stood out over
the long haul
By Slaton L. White
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Tenzing TZ 2220
$200; TENZINGOUTDOORS.COM
+ + + + +
Mystery Ranch
Dragon Slayer
$299; MYSTERYRANCH.COM
+ + + +
SPECS 2,228 cu. in. 4 lb.
THE LOWDOWN Coming in just 5 points behind the
leaders, the Tenzing impressed by delivering the most
for the money. Young gave high marks for the thought-
ful design and attention to detail. Here, he singled out
the zipper pulls. It may seem like a small detail, but when
you are fumbling in the dark with cold hands, the yellow,
ridged pulls are easy to locate and grasp. At the end of
the season, his Tenzing was the dirtiest and bloodiest
because he used it more than any of the others.
To Belt, the pack was easy to adjust, and he thought
the stowaway rain cover was a great idea. Sofianek said
that the internal frame wasnt as robust as the others
not going to carry out an elk quarter on thisbut he
praised the profusion of pockets (11 in all).
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HITS Air flow on the back keeps you cool. Sofianek
MISSES Could use a meat shelf. Magaziner
3 4
DUSTI N BELT, 35
Home Hunti ng Area: Oregon
Days Hunted per Year: 24
BI LL MAGAZI NER, 64
Home Hunti ng Area: Col orado
Days Hunted per Year: 30
JOE SOFI ANEK, 47
Home Hunti ng Area: Montana
Days Hunted per Year: 30
STU YOUNG, 58
Home Hunti ng Area: I daho
Days Hunted per Year: 30
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HIS MONTHS magazine is devoted to the future,
mostly because it greatly speeds up fact-checking. Like
everyone else who tells lies for a living, I have seen the
future, and there are three things you should know about it: It will
be chaotic, inefficient, and prohibitively expensive. Basically, itll
be just like nowonly more so. A few fearless predictions:
Crankbaits will dive even deeperinto your wallet. In bass
fishing, the guy who shows the fish a new look has always had a
competitive edge. (Throw something the size of David E. Petzals
head into your local water and you can count on two things. One,
the bass definitely havent seen anything like it. Two, theyre sure as
hell seeing it now.) This is an area in which the Japanese have long
been eating our bento box. They already offer a swimbait that mea-
sures a foot long, weighs 10
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2 ounces, and sells for $425. Want one?
Youll have to wait about two months. Within three years, they will
develop a crankbait that dives to 7 miles, enabling anglers to target
those sluggish fish at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. It will cost
$4,000 and youll have to wait two years to buy one. The good
news is that by then there will also be 80-pound-test line that
makes our current 2-pound fluorocarbon look like bridge cable, so
the average spinning reel will easily spool the necessary 12,320
yards of line. The one drawback: It will take some lucky angler
three days to crank up that first fish. Which will turn out to be a
Nike Air Jordan sneaker from 1992.
Fire making will go bye-bye. Like the scimitar-horned oryx,
the frustrating, engrossing, and uniquely human experience of
making fire from natural materials will soon survive only in captiv-
ity, mostly among buckskin-clad reenactors at living museums.
Who needs the hassle? Duraflame already makes nine kinds of fire
logs, including the Crackleflame, the Colorlog, and Roasting Logs
(whichhold on to your hats, kidscan actually be used to cook
food). Stax, the first stackable fire log, is shaped like split wood
and burns with the same charred appearance and crackling
sounds of a wood fire. And it doesnt even require a USB cord.
Within the next decade, increasingly arcane words like tinder and
kindling will vanish from the lexicon. In my view, this cant happen
soon enough, because weve got the whole deal bass-ackward.
What we should be doing is developing whole trees that light and
burn as easily as Duraflame logs. And if we could get them to grow
red and yellow flammable bark, that would be awesome.
Video will conquer reality. More than 65 years ago, some dude
named Aldo Leopold wrote: A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is
that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of
his conduct. Whatever his acts, they are dictated by his own con-
science, rather than by a mob of onlookers. It is difficult to exagger-
ate the importance of this fact. Actually, its difficult to exaggerate
the irrelevance of this fact. Within 18 months, no fishing or hunting
event will officially have taken place without video documentation.
There are still a few naysayers who contend that video actually di-
lutes rather than validates the peak experiences of our lives. These
geezers (most are at least 40, some even older) say that video, in-
stead of fostering a profound and personal connection to the natural
world, in fact encourages a public fist-pumping celebration of
mans domination of nature, complete with hip-hop soundtrack.
Like thats a bad thing.
Yours truly will sell out faster than a bullet. After its been fired,
I mean. Dont lump me in with the dinosaurs above. Print journal-
ism is circling the drain and piety wont pay the bills. Heck, Id run
over the 2014 Hero of Conservation for the opportunity to move
from your bathroom reading pile to your living-room TV. Which is
why within two years youll see me starring in The Bone Protector.
This groundbreaking new reality show will revolutionize outdoor
TV with explicit footage of me blowing chances at deer all across
this great nation. With a toupee and a Southern drawl, Ill show
everybody that there are indeed things in this world that can be
bought. And for far less than youd think.
Its all gonna be O.K. Sure, the world is going to hell in a hand-
basket. Thats how the world, generally, prefers to travel. Well have
the apocalypse, everybody will lose power and their minds for a few
days, and then well start working with whatevers left. You hear a
lot of folks fretting over the future of hunting and fishing, mostly
from people trying to sell you camo trail markers and the Butt Out
VII. Hunting and fishingthe things themselveshave survived
for a very long time and will continue to survive, despite ridiculous
gear, ridiculous technology, and boneheads like me.
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A dire forecast of where hunting and
fishing are headed By Bill Heavey
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