Outdoors
Gear: Easy way to start a fire
With hunting season getting into full swing and cold and wet weather hitting the mountains, I started talking with a coo-worker about easy ways to start an emergency survival fire.
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Searching for pheasants on the Outer Banks
Trying to find wild pheasant hunters in the Tar Heel state is like going on the proverbial wild goose chase.
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Best times for anglers
This table lists top fishing times and days for the coming weeks. For best results, begin fishing one hour before and continue one hour after the times given. Times apply to all time zones (X indicates best days).
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Group bands together to manage deer population
Concerned that deer were eating everything in sight – sweet potatoes, corn, soybeans, food plots and pine seedlings – the Lumber River Outdoors landowners enrolled their properties in Farmers Manage Deer, a cooperative program.
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Warriors will hit the water next week
Nearly 40 combat-wounded Marines and Army soldiers will fish against each other in the Oct. 18 wahoo tournament. The day of fishing will take place aboard the Vonda Kay out of the Bridge Tender Marina at Wrightsville Beach.
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Duck hunter enjoys season amid wild rice in Minnesota
Morning is just breaking over Big Rice Lake, and John Backman is right where he loves to be. He's semi-reclined in his layout boat, surrounded by more than 2,000 acres of golden wild rice and three dozen bobbing decoys.
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For bow hunters targeting a big buck, this is prime time
If you're one of those bow hunters who is waiting for the colder weather of late October and early November before getting serious about your hunting, Mike Hunsucker has a few words of advice for you.
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Demand for Minnesota wolf hunt licenses drops by half
The allure of shooting or trapping a wolf in Minnesota may be declining.
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Smoky Valley Ranch strives to blend ranching and wildlife in Kansas
Some see images of super-fat cattle when they think of the thick prairies of the Smoky River country of western Kansas. Others think of the myriad of wildlife that can abound in the rolling hills and canyons.
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Florida's Sebastian River teeming with tarpon
With the annual fall mullet run in full force, captain Tom Pierce and I planned to drift along the beach north and south of Sebastian Inlet to catch tarpon, snook, or whatever gamefish might be found chasing the massive schools of jumping baitfish.
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Florida residents and anglers have mixed reactions to Lake Okeechobee flooding
A vexing South Florida paradox: Coral Springs angler Tim Feller celebrating his $9,800 tournament win with 10 bass totaling 41 pounds in two days on Lake Okeechobee at the same time angry residents of downstream Stuart are protesting fish kills and algae blooms in the Indian River Lagoon.



