OK -- maybe this has nothing to do with hunting and fishing, but can I just say:

What is going on in Ottawa?

Wait - it has everything to do with hunting and fishing! After all, I'm sure many outdoorsmen voted a certain way at least partially because a certain party takes a certain stance on firearm ownership and rights.

(Sorry if that's too vague.)

And if you didn't vote for the party in power, I'm

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The ice is a bit too thin today, but it won't be long before the devoted few are dragging out the augers and short rods. Especially if the trend predicted by The Weather Network (for Edmonton, anyway), stays true. Minus 15 tomorrow... oh boy.

 Who out there ice fishes? Before I moved to Edmonton, I was under the impression everybody east of the Okanagan was a die-hard ice angler. But now I see

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The Wild West frontier might be a thing of the past, but there is a frontier alive and well in this country -- the North.

Last summer had the opportunity to travel to the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, with Plummer's Lodge, on a fly fishing trip for lake trout, Arctic grayling and Arctic char.

Let me tell you -- I thought I knew what "wilderness" was, but until I stood on the banks of the Tree

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The long wait is over! The best cookbook ever created for the outdoorsman, Cooking Wild, is in print and shipping next week.

We are so impressed with the way this book turned out. It is truly going to amaze everybody who has bought a copy. Don't have yours? CLICK HERE or phone 1.800.898.8811 to order it for only $24.95.

Written by Linda Gabris, Cooking Wild is a 200-page book that features 180

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Right now, the Alberta Hunting For Tomorrow Foundation is undertaking a very important project — something that depends entirely on you. And it only takes a few minutes of your time to make your contribution.

It's a survey.

It seems there has been no concrete data compiled on the economic benefits of the hunting industry to the Alberta economy in 10 years... sadly out of date, especially since

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The staff of Western Sportsman and BC Outdoors magazine met up last week on the Fraser River, near Mission, BC, for a day of sturgeon fishing -- and what a day!

Anyone who hasn't fished for these brutes has to try. Our biggest of the day was 63 inches long; a fish  nearly 70 years of age. And that is about half as big and half as old as they get.

These fish are truly amazing: a strictly managed

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The federal cabinet was announced, including a new Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, Prince Edward Island MP Gail Shea.

And the entire province of British Columbia, home of Canada's largest coastline, rolls their eyes.

I, for one, am going to give Shea the benefit of the doubt -- but really, I am sick of the East telling the West how things should be done. Especially in regards to the fisheries.

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How can we protect ourselves in the woods?

Every year it happens — a rampaging bear takes another fellow outdoorsman. And every time, it gives me the heebie-jeebies. An instructor at a bear safety course once told me that if the average person knew how many times he has walked past a bear without knowing it, he’d never set foot in the woods again.
Hunters aren’t your average people — we usually are

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It's a great time of year -- and we had a great shoot out near Killam, AB, the other day.

I met up with Dennis Isbister and Dave Dakin from Final Approach Blinds (FA Brand) near Killam, just south of Camrose, and had our blinds and decoys up before first light.

The shoot started off hot, and we were finished before 10:00 am -- just in time to catch and early lunch at Bruce's Place Resturant in 

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I think the biggest hurdle facing any new hunter is access -- where do you hunt? Once that's figured out, the rest tends to fall into place. A good mentor or hunting buddy becomes invaluable here.

Practice is also key. This means range shooting, whether yoy shoot bullets or arrows. Bow hunters have a leg up here though, as they (we) can head into the hunt areas and shoot at targets (stumps) all we

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