Designed for the outdoorsman, you will love the great articles and beautiful photos every issue brings!
Brock Ray | April 4, 2009
While game fish probably rarely see a real worm, much less a night crawler, it is the exceptional fish that will turn its nose up at an opportunity to eat a lively, juicy worm. The secret to consistent, successful catches with live worms is having a lively bait. During the heat of summer, that often does not work out well for many anglers…
Brock Ray | February 12, 2009
The existence of smallmouth bass in these streams comes as a shock to many, including a few lifelong trouters in the region. However, these marvelous gamefish, as well as rock bass and even a few largemouth bass, are found in these streams…
Brock Ray | January 29, 2009
“How far from here is the Alamo where Davy Crockett died fighting?,” I ask my longtime water fowling buddy Larry Cook as he laid a few feet away from me in the muck of a rice field. Cook lives in Dandridge, Tennessee where the famous frontier bear hunter first married, and I grew up in Morristown a few hundred yards from Davy’s boyhood home–a wayside tavern….
Brock Ray | January 21, 2009
East Tennessee’s best kept secret since the A-bomb–our best fishing for smallmouth bass lays hidden in the very shadows of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.?
Brock Ray | October 27, 2008
I like to think the big fish just sit around all day and take bets on which little fish is going to get caught by a fisherman. Ok, maybe that is a little far fetched, but it’s fun to imagine. Bigger fish also seem to feed on baitfish in more shallow water than during the day.
Brock Ray | October 21, 2008
Modern hunters have few things more precious and close to their hearts than off time. In an ever more hurried world, time away from home and work seem tougher and tougher to make happen…
Brock Ray | June 5, 2008
It seems everyone collects something, be it old buttons or Indian arrowheads. In recent years sporting paraphernalia, such as baseball cards and duck decoys, has been eagerly sought by a growing number of collectors. Old fishing tackle is the latest craze among sporting collectables.
Brock Ray | March 6, 2008
Die-hard stream trout fly fishermen have it tough during the winter, when their favorite streams ice over or are too high to afford decent fishing. Warm weather rarely arrives before the faithful are out sloshing around in trout streams. Crazy as it may sound, in many instances early-season trout fly fishing is not crazy! In fact, some of the year’s best fishing can occur…
Brock Ray | November 21, 2007
If you are looking for the deer hunt of a lifetime, Texas is waiting for you…
Brock Ray | November 15, 2007
“Wild quail are tough to find in numbers these days, but great shooting is available at the growing number of pay-to-shoot preserves of the South.”
