Striped bass fishing is not an activity for those with addiction issues. The true striper faithful never fully recover from losing their minds during the season. The off-season is essentially one long hangover waiting for spring migration’s ...
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How To Survive on Wild Edible Plants and Not Get Dead
Terence McKenna, famous American philosopher, ethnobotanist (one who studies a region's plants and their practical uses through the traditional knowledge of local culture and people), and author once stated, "Nature loves courage. You make the ...
The Unceremonious Death of Samuel Colt
On Jan. 10, 1862, Samuel Colt passed away at his home in Hartford, Connecticut. He was one of the wealthiest men in America, with an estimated worth of $15 million ($413 million today). Death cares little about money, though. Colt died at the ...
Ducks and Coffee: Three Days in Oklahoma With FowlCo Outfitters
Watching the horizon turn from darkness to a mixture of piercing pinks and oranges reminds me of sunrises over the Carolinas’ intercoastal waterway. The way the nearly-neon colors push the night’s cloud coverage away to reveal a sky so brilliantly ...
Tennessee Tornado Kills 2 Hunters, 3rd Missing, Others Aid Rescue Efforts
Winter waterfowl hunters are no strangers to lousy weather. Unfortunately, the weather turned deadly this past weekend in many places throughout the South and Midwest, including in Tiptonville, Tennessee, a premier duck hunting destination, as ...
Blood & Feathers: Wildlife Conservation and Fashion’s Lust for Birds
The stench of death loomed. Bombs exploded. Shots echoed along the street. Last words were forced from blood-stained lips, “Sophie dear! Don’t die! Stay alive for our children!” War dawned on the horizon. Gavrilo Princip steered Europe into conflict. ...
Record Grass Carp Caught by Idaho Angler Fishing for Smallmouth
Idaho is known as a world-class hunting and fishing mecca. Anglers make annual pilgrimages to the state’s pristine waters to fish for wild brown, rainbow, and cutthroat trout. Rocky Mountain sheep, elk, mule deer, and pronghorn are big game animals ...
Forest Service Retires Last Cobra Attack Helicopters Used for Wildfire Ops
The sound of rotor chop fills the sky, sending choking-thick smoke in tight-whipped swirls. Fire cracks and races furnace-hot below, consuming trees, vegetation, and structures, chasing animals, and forcing people to run panicked with what little ...
Deadliest Snakes in the US: 8 Bites You Want to Avoid
Out of roughly 3,400 species and subspecies of snake found in the US, there are 37 venomous reasons we wear heavy boots in the field and keep a really good eye out when we’re fishing close to shore in a boat or on foot. We know that's where some of ...
Urban Fishing: Five of the Best Big Cities for Anglers
Brad Pitt lied to you. The best fishing isn't in Montana. If you want to experience the great outdoors in its most gritty, honest, and tough-as-car-tires-and-non-biodegradable-Dasani-water-bottles form; if you want to pick fights with fish ...
Goonies Never Say Die: The Hunt for Sunken Treasure
The waves crest and crash against the Spanish treasure fleet off the coast of Cartagena, Columbia. It is 1708, during the War of Spanish Succession. The fleet is 17 ships strong, consisting of three Spanish warships and 14 merchant vessels. The ...
Zara Rutherford, 19, Is Flying Solo Around the World Right Now
Zara Rutherford, 19, is currently on a quest to fly around the world all on her own. She's traveling a wide course that she began in August and plans to complete by early November. The incredible journey will see Rutherford fly over five continents ...
Tampa Bay Red Tide Aftermath: What Comes Next?
An estimated 800 tons of dead fish and other marine life were collected from the Gulf Coast shoreline by the end of July in the wake of a devastating red tide that recently choked Tampa Bay. According to Capt. Brian Jill, a fishing guide in ...
Potential Hammerhead Shark Nursery Discovered off the Coast of Miami
Tourists usually flock to Biscayne Bay for fishing charters, water scooters, and windsurfing, but the vacation destination seems to also be the perfect place for endangered great hammerhead sharks to do some reproducing. A nursery for these ...
5 of the Best Shark Fishing Spots in the Nation
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 ...
Tampa Bay Fish Kill: 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 ...
No Boat, No Problem: A Beginner’s Guide to Pier Fishing Etiquette
You don’t need a johnboat, center console, and guide to catch saltwater slammers this summer. Much of America’s coastal waters are dotted with public fishing piers. From Florida to Maine, from San Diego to Seattle, and all along the Gulf of Mexico, ...
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 ...
Bonneville’s Fastest: Speed Record-Holders of the Flats
Unless you topped out on a motorcycle at 110 miles an hour at Bonneville at the age of 14, you don’t know shit about driving fast. That’s exactly what Karlee Cobb did in 2008 on the salt flats, and it put her squarely among some damn fast ...
DIY Public Land .410 Turkey Slam in the First 2 Weeks of Turkey Season
Seth Gebo wasn’t planning to pull off one of the hardest things in turkey hunting. He connected with an Osceola in Florida on a buddy hunt a few days into the season. Then the lightbulb went off. With some last-minute plane tickets and a few hundred ...
Fish of the Union: The Top 6 Species Claimed as State Fish
Every state lays claim to some unique animal, flower, tree, historic reference, or geological feature as uniquely their own: Idaho gems and potatoes, California gold, Florida sunshine, Georgia peaches, Michigan wolverines. While most states ...
Reel Warriors Reconnects Veterans Through Offshore Fishing
The pain and isolation that many veterans carry home from deployments can occupy some of the deepest parts of their being. When it comes to hope and healing, those depths can seem simply unreachable. Through offshore fishing trips, Reel ...
10 Fishing Podcasts Every Angler Should Check Out
You can’t swing a dead possum without hitting an “outdoors” podcast these days. All you need is a microphone, a laptop, a subscription to a podcast hosting service, and a half-assed idea of what you want to talk about. Okay, maybe even half of ...
In Praise of Shad
Shad and shad fishing became real for me on a backwater hole in eastern North Carolina when my first buck hickory danced across the water on his tail like a miniaturized, silver-scaled tarpon. I was hooked more surely than that spawning fish ...
Sporting Art: Zippo Lighters Designed with the Outdoors in Mind
Early man in Africa and Eurasia first harnessed the power of fire 2 million years ago, discovering its usefulness for not only warmth and light but also protection from predators — and the ability to cook food. The earliest cave paintings, ...
WATCH: Fisherman Lands 12-Foot Great White Shark on Pensacola Beach
Ah, yes. With the COVID-19 pandemic winding down at last, and with summer just over the horizon, many Americans are probably jonesing for that idyllic beach holiday that's seemed out of reach for so very long. Well, just when you thought it was ...
Starter Kit: Learning To Fly Fish — Gear Up
Fly fishing can seem overwhelming at first. Truth is, it’s not. Learning how to fly fish is actually easy and fun as hell. And it won’t immediately empty your wallet. With the right gear and some fundamentals, you’ll be ready to pester farm-pond ...
‘There Is Magic in Suffering’ — The Allure of the Ultramarathon
6 a.m. — At the trailhead of the Illinois and Michigan Canal State Trail, three runners silently step up to the starting line through the morning fog. There are six spectators on hand. The trio of runners have their arms folded against the early ...
The San Diego Bottom Scratchers: The Men Who Hunted Sharks Barehanded
All 19 members of the San Diego Bottom Scratchers are dead. At the bottom of the ocean, a few hundred yards northwest of Boomer Beach and the Point in La Jolla, is an underground cemetery of tombstones and rock cairns. Inscribed are the names of some ...
Kicking Off Fall With a Tennessee Dove Shoot
Nothing marks the start of hunting season like a good old-fashioned dove shoot. Across the Southeast, Texas, and parts of the Midwest the ceremonial beginning of fall is often a gathering of friends and family — around a planted sunflower ...