If there’s anything we can all agree on, it’s the fact that the current political season is chock-full of lies and deception. And unfortunately, there are also plenty of lies out there when it comes to boats. Chances are, at […]
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Last week we talked about the “gape width factor” and how what determines the size of a bass’ prey is mouth size. Check out this crazy video of a huge bass eating a ground squirrel. You might want to factor
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Largemouth bass are voracious. They will literally attack and kill anything that can fit in their mouths. It doesn’t mean they will always do so because any savvy angler knows big bass can be skittish. Biologists however say the size
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The Texas and Louisiana coasts have lots of oyster reefs from large natural ones to small and medium-sized manmade reefs. The reefs on the south end tend to get red hot in spring but produce all year. One of the
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My all American sonic bombast weapon of choice for fifty years has been those world class pieces or musical art, the mighty Gibson guitar. I own a stunning arsenal of them. It wouldn’t surprise me if some Fedzillastooge from Attorney General
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Alligator garfish are lots of fun to catch. If you don’t believe me check out this clip of a Texas angler getting pulled around by a monster one in his johnboat. Awesome stuff! Give it a try. Chester Moore
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In-between casts it hit me: hunting season is just around the corner, and I haven’t touched my duck boat in months. The same thing happened last year, and I neglected to get prepped until mere days before the shooting began.
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Do you ever dissect the fish you caught? When cleaning fish you should take time to check stomach contents so you get a good grasp on exactly what they are eating. Last year, my cousin Frank Moore was cleaning a
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Tribe Nuge pulled into the little clearing on the banks of the mighty Titabawasee River in the spectacular wilds of Northern Michigan. Our 1958 Ford stationwagon was loaded down with all the basic camping gear and archery equipment. We all
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During hot, calm days, redfish begin to school up and offer up a feeding frenzy. When bays experience the mid-day ‘slick-offs’, reds bunch up in the middle of the bays and start chasing around menhaden. Sometimes you see them feeding
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It seems strange, but we’ll take what we get on the 2014 Silverado. GM seems to have heard our begging and whining for anything on the long-awaited vehicle. They have not heard our prayers, but did throw us a morsel. Not much detail,
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For most of us, running over the asphalt at 200-plus miles and hour in a NASCAR race is just a dream. But as a boater, you might be a lot closer to NASCAR than you think. Just consider these facts,
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Fishing guide Roger Bacon turned me onto some outstanding brush fishing for bass by accident back in the summer of 2000. “Bass love brushpiles,” Bacon said. Bacon said anglers not familiar with brush pile locations should search the open lake
For anglers willing to work hard to catch one or two REALLY big blues, the deep water around the spillway offers some of the best fishing. There are many legends of super-sized blues (the size of a Volkswagen) prowling this
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I hear this question more often than any other: I plan to go shopping for a new fishfinder, so what’s the best way to go about it? Choosing a new fishfinder is a tough process, one in which we all second-guess ourselves, struggle through,
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Coastal anglers know that fishing a slack (dead) tide can be extremely difficult. Fish seemingly get lockjaw once the tides stop moving. A good area to fishing during slack tides is around the Intracoastal Canal or other ship channels. If
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When it comes to guns, there is plenty of spin in Bill O’Reilly’s “No Spin Zone.” The No Spin Zone has been infected with a bad case of yellow journalism. O’Reilly is either woefully ignorant of the most basic of
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Most anglers associate chumming with offshore fishing, but it can do wonders for land-bound anglers. By simply taking a fish basket or a commercially sold chum bag, tying it off to something on the bank, and throwing it out, anglers
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In addition to the pain and anguish the psychotic killer intentionally caused at the theater in Colorado, our embarrassing American system injustice will cause even more pain on the victims and Colorado taxpayers. The psycho killer will most likely live
