Tarpon guides on the South Florida and Texas coasts can’t stand sharks. Same for mahi, striped bass, marlin, and tuna guides on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. In all fairness, when a 10-foot hammerhead or giant blue shark decides to crash your ...
WATCH: Norwegian Has Gut-Wrenching Olympic Triathlon Finish
The finish of the Olympic triathlon Sunday was like a segment out of the classic ABC's Wide World of Sports "thrill of victory and agony of defeat" intro, except Norway’s Kristian Blummenfelt felt the agony of victory. The gutty Norwegian ...
The West Is Burning: How Wildfires Are Impacting Fish and Wildlife
Is the West ever NOT on fire?! As of Tuesday, 6,000 more wildfires have burned almost a million more acres since Jan. 1, 2021, than in the same time period last year. That adds up to 36,796 fires and 2,823,453 acres so far — and there are still ...
US Olympic Air Rifle and Skeet Athletes Shoot Lights-Out in Tokyo
The US Olympic shooting teams are leaving no doubt as to who make the best marksmen in the world. Amber English secured gold and an Olympic record in women’s skeet; Vincent Hancock earned his third gold, an unprecedented feat, in men’s skeet; and ...
WATCH: Airborne Sturgeon to Tarpon — ‘Hold My Beer’
Move over, tarpon — Fraser River sturgeon are gunning for the big-air title. Images of giant, sunshine-silver, airborne tarpon in the Florida Keys, Cuba, and Costa Rica have fueled anglers' bucket-list dreams since before Hemingway went gray. The ...
WATCH: Grizzly Bear Versus Wolves
As far as who-would-win fights go, a scrap between a big-ass grizzly bear and a pack of wolves rates right up there at the top. Except we know the answer to this one. Bears and wolves generally don’t mess with each other unless food forces their ...
Bouldering for Beginners: 7 Tips for New Sport Climbers
If you want a workout that’ll turn your body into a length of braided steel, bouldering is a sport for you. Bouldering is a type of rock climbing that doesn’t require a rope or harness because you only climb up 12 to 15 feet. But what the climbs ...
The 5 Best Summer Barbecue Recipes That’ll Punch You Right in the Mouth
Barbecue season is here, and it doesn't matter whether you burn a charcoal kettle grill, fire up the propane, slow-roll pellet smoke, or have hickory chunks soaking — meat and heat are summer AF. Of course, it's easy to get into a barbecue ...
Roadless Rule Reinstated in Tongass National Forest
More than 9 million acres of the Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska are safe once again from almost certain logging and mining greenlighted by the last administration. An exemption to the Roadless Rule that was approved by then President ...
1st Female Grizzly in 40 Years Collared in Washington
When it comes to playing hard to get, female grizzlies in Washington state are pros. In 40 years of tracking grizzly bears as part of recovery efforts in the Evergreen State, US Fish and Wildlife Service officials have captured and collared four ...
The 5 Most Difficult Rated Rock Climbs in the US
Between massively popular adventure documentaries like The Dawn Wall and Free Solo, the proliferation of climbing gyms across the country, and the official addition of climbing to this summer's Olympic Games in Tokyo, rock climbing — specifically ...
North Carolina Blue Catfish Breaks State Record by 5 Pounds
Rocky Baker's electronic fish scale is rated to 110 pounds. When the screen said "overloaded" before he was even able to hoist the behemoth blue catfish off the bottom of the boat, his response was pretty much the same as every other angler in a ...
Tampa Bay’s Fish Kill Climbs to 15 Tons of Dead Marine Life … and Counting
In what seems like the new annual normal, the Gulf Coast of Florida is seeing the start of debilitating red tide. Unfortunately, Tampa Bay, an area that normally doesn't get hit too hard by red tide, has become ground zero of an absolutely ...
Montana Wildlife Officials: Grizzly That Pulled Woman From Tent and Killed Her is Dead
A 65-year-old California woman was pulled from her tent in the middle of the night and mauled to death by a grizzly in Ovando, Montana. Officials reported Friday morning that they have located and killed the bear. According to The Associated ...
WATCH: Zion National Park Buried After Flash Flood
An offseason weather event dumped more than an inch and a half of rain on Zion National Park in Utah and has tourists and locals digging out of a valley full of mud. The flash flood carried enough force to buckle roads and sidewalks and play ...
WATCH: Nothing Says America Like Crazy-Ass Wakeboarding Tricks
Fourth of July weekend is upon us, and you can bet that the entire damn country is going to be on a lake or river, in a pool, or sitting under a water sprinkler, celebrating American freedom and waiting for the fireworks to start. Cue the Zac ...
It’s Too F*cking Hot: Why You Should Give Fish a Break During This Stupid-Hot Heat Wave
Most of the country is pretty much feeling like a line of ants roasting under some kid’s magnifying glass. But it’s not just humans who are feeling this heat wave. Fish are, too. Extended periods of intense heat coupled with the lack of rain have ...
Off Script: Free Range Q&A With Surfer, Hunter, Filmmaker, Badass Mark Healey
If you asked Captain America to pull together a list of what he does when he’s not saving the world, it would fall short of the resume of Mark Healey. Professional big-wave surfer, free diver, spearfisherman, conservationist, sky diver, ...
5 of the Best Places To Climb East of the Mississippi
When it comes to world-renowned locations to enjoy outdoor sports such as climbing, the West seems to get all the love. With that comes popularity, but with popularity comes problems. Just take a look at the shit shows that many of our national parks ...
New Highlining Record Set in Yosemite
In a national park that’s world-famous for mind-bending feats of climbing skill, two brothers and their friend might have just topped the list of bonkers adventures in Yosemite with a 2,788-foot highline walk between two cliff faces. Moises and ...
Backcountry Flyers: 6 Classic Bush Planes That Get Us Out There
Backcountry flight in a proper bush plane will make you wonder what the hell you’ve been doing with your life. From the first revolution of the propeller blade to the muffled thrum vibrating through your body as wilderness sprawls in every ...
Study Discovers This Deep-Sea Fish Lives to 100, Stays Pregnant for 5 Years
Head 500 to 800 feet into the ocean depths off the Comoro Islands near the East African coast and you might find an ancient species of fish that can grow as big as a man and live for a century. Nicknamed "the living fossil," coelacanths ...
Sport Climbing To Make Its Olympic Debut in Tokyo
The mind-blowing, gravity-defying, superhuman athleticism of sport climbing will make its debut at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo this summer, and four of America's own are qualified to compete: Brooke Raboutou, Kyra ...
52,000 Fish Found Dead in Kansas City River
The Missouri Department of Natural Resources is trying to figure out why 52,000 fish were found dead in Brush Creek just south of Kansas City. A total of 1,900 common carp, 240 silver carp, and 50,000 sunfish went belly-up throughout a ...
WATCH: Nature Is Metal
Everybody loves the pristine National Geographic documentaries that make the natural world look like an episode of Chef's Table. But if you're into all things wild and raw and you're not starting your day with a mainline shot of nature in its most ...
A Father’s Day Lesson: When the Bass Aren’t Biting
"Never curse a sunfish," my dad would say. "It could be the only thing you catch." Even as a kid, I understood the sentiment. But when I was fishing for bass, I still thought it was a ration of shit. If I couldn’t manage a largemouth, no amount of ...
Off Script: Free Range Q&A With Mark Pattison, NFL Receiver and Seven Summits Climber
In the span of 10 years, Mark Pattison has gone from the lowest point in his life to the top of the highest mountain on each of the seven continents — the Seven Summits. The former Los Angeles (now Las Vegas) Raiders and New Orleans Saints ...
Lobster Diver Grabbed, Spit Out by Whale, And Other Close Encounters
“This is how you’re going to die,” thought Michael Packàrd, a commercial lobster diver out of Provincetown, Massachusetts. "In the mouth of a whale." Packàrd guessed that he was trapped for 30 to 40 seconds before the whale spit him out in a gush ...
Man Overboard: What To Do When Your Fishing Guide Is a Total Asshat
I didn’t care that we had paid him for a day of fishing. He needed to go for a fucking swim and I was this close to helping his ass off the boat. There’s a bottomless well of stories that fishing guides can tell about nightmare clients. My ...
This Nonprofit Is Fighting To Fix Florida’s Water and Save Redfish and Specks
In 1977, 14 concerned anglers led by Walter Fondren gathered in a tackle shop on the Texas coast vowing to save redfish and speckled trout from being wiped out by commercial fishing. Soon after, the Texas Legislature voted the Red Drum ...
