FUR-FISH-GAME - April 2023

In this issue

Small Stuff For STEELHEAD; TURKEY Hunting Lessons Learned; Night HOG High-Tech Adventure; Alaska BEAR Camp; SHED Hunting; TRAPPING With The Better Half; And Much, Much MORE.

Gobblers That Taught me something

West Virginia offers some of the best public land spring gobbler hunting in the country, so one April morning in 2021, I arose early to make the two-hour drive to the Monongahela National Forest from my Virginia home.

7 mins

Alaska Bear Camp Lessons

Getting my son inside his camouflage bivy sack in a treestand was harder than I’d anticipated.

7 mins

Small Stuff for Spring Steelhead

Anyone who has witnessed a large trout feeding on midges has won-dered, “Why? Why would a big trout, who has the ability to feed on smaller trout, bother with a midge?”

7 mins

Night Time is the Right Time for Hogs

There was a time when the majority of wild hogs I killed was during daylight hours.

8 mins

Fur Pocket on Big Thunder

Chapter X The Fight at the Gap

8 mins

Trapping With the Better Half

It was my wife Cheryl’s first season joining me on a water trap-line, her first season as a trapper.

9 mins

Have Young Ones, Will Travel: Youth Turkey Hunts

I love turkey hunting and have spent many years chasing gobblers. Hunting a tom often comes with frustration and disappointment.

5 mins

Catching White Bass in Creeks

I was spending a couple of days solo at my good friend’s ranch on the upper end of Lake Fork in northeast Texas.

7 mins

KINGS OF THE RIVER

I was born in the middle of the Baby Boom generation. Growing up in southeastern Pennsylvania, I made many fond memories fishing, hunting and trapping the abundant streams, rivers and woodlands available for all these adventures.

4 mins

Post Big-Game Season Predators

The two coyotes came bolting out of the timber, into the edge of the cornfield on dead run, and they never slowed down as they covered the 150 yards of open field.

5 mins

Shedding Light on Hunting Shed Antlers

We’ve all spent hours searching for sheds in the places we usually hunt, hoping to finding sheds from the bucks that frequent the area.

7 mins

The Television Trappers Who Inspired Tom

When I began trapping, my favorite TV show was Mutual of Oma-ha’s “Wild Kingdom.”

6 mins

Shad Tactics Coast To Coast

The river’s current had us swaying back and forth through the heavy run.

8 mins

Catching the Chicken Killin' Coyote

A coyote is killin’ my chickens!” my son, Eli, lamented over the phone.

7 mins

The All-American Single Shot Shotgun

Long the mainstay of country folk in America, the single shot shotgun has been a proven performer for generations.

4 mins

The Cage Trap Advantage

Imagine pulling up to small creek covered with beaver sign, getting a cage trap out of the truck, quickly setting it and moving on.

6 mins

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FUR-FISH-GAME Magazine Description:

America's #1 magazine for Practical Outdoorsmen since 1925. Our articles are written to instruct and entertain, by real life, everyday outdoorsmen who hunt, fish and trap year-round. Fact is we cover a greater variety of outdoor pursuits than any other magazine. We hunt rabbits and squirrels as well as turkey and deer. Pick mushrooms and other wild edibles for the dinner table. Yes, we love to catch lunker bass and trout. But we also run trot lines for catfish in the summer and harvest ginseng in the fall. We give you all the best how-to advice for your self-guided hunts. We cover it all and we keep it real. No exotic safaris or peacock bass fishing in Brazil. Our stories are always close to home, geared towards true practical everyday outdoorsmen.