South Dakota Pheasant Numbers Up Again

PIERRE, S.D.—Favorable weather conditions and good habitat have once again combined to produce a record pheasant crop in South Dakota.
Brood count surveys conducted by the S.D. Game, Fish and Parks Department tallied pheasant numbers that once again hearken back to the days of the Soil Bank era in the 1950s and ’60s. Surveys that [...]

Blogs We Read

I subscribe to quite a few blogs and I come accross some cool stuff while reading them. Here are some of my favorites:
Base Camp Legends, always on the move has added a bunch of cool new stuff to their site. You can now share your videos, and check out their forum I think it’s gonna [...]

What a Fly Rod Looks Like After Being Struck by Lightning

Found this picture while I was browsing Fly Fishing on the Web. Apparrently, this is a fly rod that was hit by lightning… wow. Need I say, don’t fish in a lightning storm?

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Tasting Failure.

Success is sweet and failure is bitter.  One thing most sportsmen know is the bitter-sweet taste of an outdoor adventure.
 
Many moons ago I was invited to archery elk hunt with a guy in his secret area.  I think our connection was in the fact that I had the same morals regarding the preservation of a [...]

Cory’s Idaho Archery Bull

This is a re-post from when we didn’t have many readers.
I was excited about elk season this year. I hunted the first few days pretty hard and passed up a few cows and small bulls, but it was pretty slow compared to last year. On the third day, we got up early and worked a [...]

Check the Reg’s!

Have you picked up your local or state hunting/fishing regulations yet?  It seems like every year there is something new we don’t know about.  A few years ago the archery rules had changed and I was more than a little in the dark about the changes.  It didn’t negatively effect me but what IF it [...]

Big cat grabs dog from Colorado home as owners slept!

- The Associated Press
Edition Date: 08/05/08
IDLEDALE, Colo. - A mountain lion crept through an open door into a house outside Denver, snatched a Labrador retriever from a bedroom where two people were sleeping and left the dog’s dead body outside, wildlife managers said Tuesday.
No one else was hurt in the home about 14 miles southwest [...]

Alaskan Charter Fishing Trip Journal

Here is a diary of a fishing trip with our Alaskan Charter Fishing Guide.
By: Ken Nielsen, Kevin Webb, Larry Webb, Shelly Sheinck
Arrived on 21st of July (Monday)
Greg put us up at Majestic Expeditions (ME), with owners Josh and Christina Graves. ME is pretty new, but they have lots of expertise. Christine is a 5 star [...]

Astronaut Bear Dies On First Mission

Somewhere in Minnesota on July 21, this bear was spotted sporting a jar on his head. Now I know that bears are smart, but I didn’t know they were capable of aspiring to such heights as role-playing. This bruin obviously wanted to be an astronaut… now that’s a lofty goal.
Unfortunately though for the bear, [...]

Record Numbers of Returning Sockeye

Fish counts have surprised the experts. They show that nearly 215,000 red salmon have been counted at Bonneville dam. This is the highest number of returning adults since 1955.
Most of these fish will follow the Columbia River to Wenatchee and Osoyoos lakes in WA, and the remaining (which represent the most endangered run) will go [...]

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