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Post-spawn walleye and smallmouth bass move on a clock. Here's the late-May 2026 playbook — water temps, structure, and the lures that work right now.
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Free fishing times calculator for any US ZIP code. Computes your prime twilight feeding windows from solar altitude, plus exact solunar major and minor periods, whic...
Read the articleThe pursuits that fill the year between hunting seasons — fishing, archery, paddling, snow sports and the safety that each one demands.
SITKA Fish is SITKA Gear’s first fishing apparel line – a four-layer GORE-TEX Pro wading system anchored by the $1,000 CrossCurrent Zip GTX Wader. Verified specs, lineup pricing, and how it lands against Simms, Patagonia, and Orvis.
The best fishing kayaks for 2026, ranked across pedal and paddle drives. Compare capacity, stability, storage, and transport weight to find your hull for summer.
Post-spawn walleye and smallmouth bass move on a clock. Here’s the late-May 2026 playbook — water temps, structure, and the lures that work right now.
Winter fishing safety means defining hard limits, standardizing your procedures, and treating every winter outing as a cold-exposure operation. Operating principle: Abort criteria guardrails come first. Always assume worst-case. Standard definitions used throughout this article: Winter fishing: Any fishing activity when air temperatures are near or below freezing, ice is present, or water temperatures are…
Kilian Jornet’s States of Elevation: Midway Through the Ultimate U.S. 14ers Challenge Kilian Jornet States of Elevation challenge electrifies ultra-endurance runners and high-altitude adventurers with its pinnacle of human grit in America’s wildest terrain. This bold 2025 project, underway since early September, aims to summit all 58 publicly accessible 14ers (peaks over 14,000…
Master bait with the two hottest new fishing lures of 2025! The best thing about fishing is all that “me time” that we get while we dip our lines. Trouble is, so much of the commercial bait that’s sold just isn’t … realistic … enough. Forget spinny spoons and shiny minnows; these days, it’s all…
Nobody plans to fall through the ice … One of the best things about living up North is the cold-weather sports. Between the frigid temperatures and the broad, fish-filled Great Lakes, nobody knows ice sports better than Michiganders. (Okay, Wisconsinites get a ribbon, too.) That’s why today’s ice-safety message comes from the great state of…
Swingin’ D Horse Rescue, an organization dedicated to rescuing, rehabilitating, and retraining horses that require special care, is excited to announce its 2024 online nationwide raffle fundraiser. The event will raise crucial funds to cover the extensive costs of rescue efforts, which are typically supported through private donations and annual fundraising activities. This year’s raffle…
Offshore angling just got a lot more kino … Ever heard of kite fishing? It’s an exhilarating fishing strategy that harnesses the power of ocean wind to create irresistible attraction. The kite keeps live baits on the water’s surface, creating a realistic presentation for surface-feeding fish. As anglers deploy the kites, a large surface area across…
Depending on where you live in the country, Winter 2024 may not be the best ice-fishing year on record. When variable weather like much of America is experiencing strikes, ice conditions will also be variable. It’s important to put safety first if they venture out ice fishing. “Check the ice as you go, avoid areas…
Is there anything more cozy on a cold day than watching birds visiting your feeder? Fire up the binos, because it’s bird-feeding time! It’s a great way to learn about year-round avian species as well as the visitors that’ll drop in from time to time. It’s good for the birds, and good for your…
Know who else has a very particular set of skills, acquired over a very long career? Jim Shockey is an outdoor writer, professional big game outfitter, TV producer, and host of several series on Outdoor Channel, Sportsman Channel and MyOutdoorTV. Still, his most recent accolade is a novelist with the release of his first novel, “Call Me Hunter,” published…
