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Editor’s note, 22 September 2026: this article was published on 2022-07-19 and describes an offer or giveaway that ran then. It has ended — check current pricing and availability with the retailer before acting on anything below. Swimming, boating, fishing, and adventuring … we love Orange Beach! Right now, we’re running a giveaway that we’ve…
There were 767 boating deaths in 2020. Almost all of them could have been avoided. Today, we have a guest column courtesy of Fishing Wire editor Frank Sergeant with some simple tips that just might save your life. ______________________________________________________ Designated national weeks are generally a bore that fall into the Internet noise category for most…
B.A.S.S. and the C.A.S.T. for Kids Foundation are accepting nominations for their annual humanitarian award recognizing the important work being done by many anglers to support fragile populations. The C.A.S.T. for Kids B.A.S.S. Humanitarian Award will honor one B.A.S.S. member who has demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to serving groups such as children with special needs, veterans, abuse survivors or…
Safari Club International needs you to help voice opposition to the Chipman nomination. One of the deepest schisms in the gun-owning community is the one between those of us who think of our firearms as defensive tools and those of us who think of our firearms as a way to bring home wild game meat….
Your bait bag might be Patient Zero for the next invasive-species pandemic. Anglers tend to be pretty environmentally conscious folks; after all, nobody likes seeing trash in the water or avoidable fish kills. But there’s an aspect of fishing that many of us probably didn’t consider, and that is the bait that we use. It…
Remember in high school when they made you read “The Old Man and the Sea” by Ernest Hemingway? In addition to being a great way to teach America’s children to dislike Hemingway, that short story illustrates something that serious fishermen know: Sharks are more than happy to “tax” your catch before you can even get…
The COVID-19 pandemic drove America back to its outdoor roots. Let’s stay here. You’re probably familiar with the Bassmaster brand and its parent company, B.A.S.S. You’re probably also familiar with a little thing that happened last year called the COVID-19 pandemic. Millions of Americans used the lockdowns as a time to get connected with Nature…and…
Is there anything more satisfying than watching poachers get theirs? As ethical hunters, we all hate the following things: sudden rainstorms when we’re tracking a blood trail, Chronic Wasting Disease, and poachers. The first two are acts of God or Nature, and thus beyond our control, but the third is definitely a problem we can…
What do hunters hate more than heavy rain and high winds? Poachers, that’s what, and this year Operation Game Thief (OGC) aims to put an end to poaching…but they need your help to be their eyes and ears on the ground. Although today’s report comes to us from Arizona, Operation Game Thief is an initiative…
My bow-season prayers to St. The Nuge have been answered! Just a few weeks ago we launched a tongue-in-cheek “prayer to St. Nugent” for bow-season success. Just a few days before that, we yearned for the success of a pro-hunting movie in production called The Harvest. It seems that someone was listening, because the Motor…
What happens when trade unions and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) come together for conservation? From past joint operations, it seems what we get is lots of hard work from people who know the meaning of hard work, and lots of science-driven biome best practices from the people who know the meaning of…
Montana’s Bob Marshall Wilderness is the crown jewel of America’s National Wilderness System, boasting over a million acres of pristine wilderness, and when the Forest Service says “no motorized vehicles,” they really mean it. But no wilderness that size can be effectively policed, so the Bob Marshall Wilderness’ essential wildness relies on ordinary citizens to…
