The long wait is over! The best cookbook ever created for the outdoorsman, Cooking Wild, is in print and shipping next week.
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Written by Linda Gabris, Cooking Wild is a 200-page book that features 180
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 sadly out of date, especially since
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
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.
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
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
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
It's really no wonder fishing licences out-sell hunting licences about 5:1 in this country. After all -- a rod, a hook, a wieght and a worm is all you need to go fishing.
Oh, and some water.
Hunting is different. Hunting is more of a commitment. And a hunter is usually gung-ho from day one, whereas weekend warrior fishermen abound.
Not that I'm putting down the Gentleman's Sport of Angle -- I'm a
In 40 Years of Western Sportsman, what has changed and what has stayed the same?
It never ceases to amaze me when I encounter a reader who mentions he has every copy of Sportsman ever published, dating all the way back to the spring of 1968. What amazing dedication that shows — not only to this magazine, but to hunting, fishing and conservation in general. It’s the ultimate compliment.
Of course,
The Wild West frontier might be a thing of the past, but there is a frontier alive and well in this country -- the North.
I recently 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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