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Making sense of scents: Do they really help you catch more fish?
Do fish scents work? Should we apply them to our lures to catch more and bigger walleye, bass, trout, northern pike and muskies? That’s the question we posed on our recent Doc Talks Fishing podcast to...
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Thought we’d completely dealt with the threat of poisonous lead in our...
We all know hunters are, first and foremost, conservationists. In the early decades of the 20th century, after all, it was hunters who lobbied for more stringent harvest regulations to save numerous...
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Team Canada starts strong at the 2024 World Black Bass Championship, but...
Team Canada at the 2024 World Black Bass Championship, at Italy’s Lake Bolsena: (left to right) David Chong, Scott Sheridan, Adam Foster, Phil Curtis(co-captain), Pete Garnier (captain) & Brent...
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Casting for muskies? This may be the most important video you’ll ever watch
When you’re muskie fishing, never, ever, ever make a cast and not finish it up with a perfect figure eight at the side of the boat. It’s what we show and tell every friend and colleague that hops into...
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Bowhunting the November whitetail rut: 5 essentials for tricking big bucks
Dress for the cold and hunt all day For bowhunters willing to endure the biting cold, the November whitetail rut can offer the most rewarding and productive hunting experience of the entire season. To...
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Return of the zombie minnows!!! These 6 tricks will give your dead baitfish a...
My first introduction to using expired baitfish was decades ago, sitting in a tin boat on a weedy back bay with my great-grandfather. He first started chasing muskies long before the sportfishing...
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5 must-know moose-hunting tactics from one of Canada’s top guides
Fooling all of a bull’s senses is the formula for certain success (photo: Unsplash/Hari Nandakumar) Most experienced hunters can usually undermine at least one of a moose’s keen senses long enough for...
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Metric vs. Imperial
We recently received a thoughtful letter from Keven McRae of Guelph, Ontario, asking us to please use metric instead of imperial measurements when discussing weights, depths, speeds, temperatures and...
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4 great new numbers about the Canadian outdoors (plus a troubling one)
$200,000 Total prize money awarded to Ontario brothers Chris (left) and Cory Johnston following August’s Bassmaster Elite Series tournament on the St. Lawrence River. Chris earned $100,000 as the 2024...
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When fishing is like winning the Stanley Cup!
I am old enough to remember the last time the Toronto Maple Leafs won the Stanley Cup. I was in high school at Oakwood Collegiate, and my buddies Chris Pascucci and Gordie Lawson and I would run out...
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