What can you do when you don’t have easy access to a chopping block with a level surface, or you’re

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Box calls: Easy to use, easy to carry, don’t require a lot of skill – but they make a racket

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“Tuning” your bass jigs can improve your hookup ration and make your jigs even more weedless. “Fishing is not an

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These trout may not have been wild, but they sure tasted better than any I’d buy at the market. “It

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Sharpening stones like this soft arkansas stone will lose their efficacy over time and you will need to restore the

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These are a pair of Chippewa service boots I wear periodifically. Since I don’t wear them a lot, I hadn’t

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Bass are most cooperative during the spawn, when they strike out of reaction rather than from a desire to eat.

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Camping in the winter can be less terrible than it sounds, even when it rains. But you need to be

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Cast iron camp cookware is nonstick. It is versatile. It is more durable than any of your other tools. It

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Struggling to find tinder in the woods, in the winter, in the rain? You can get this stuff almost anywhere

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