By Nick Simonson Along the lure-making learning curve, the trout spinner is a versatile bait that’s easy to create and fun to customize for salmonids in any lake or stream. A dressed treble hook and a few components come together for an easy-casting compact lure that triggers brutal reaction strikes and covers water to help […]
Our Outdoors: Annual Ups & Downs
By Nick Simonson The end of the year and the start of a new one heralds not only a time to look forward at goals to be accomplished, but also to celebrate the seasons that have wrapped and analyze what went wrong, what went right and what lessons were learned to be relied upon in […]
Our Outdoors: An Early Take
By Nick Simonson It’s played out in a similar fashion over the past several hunts, an early-flushing rooster pheasant rises unexpectedly at the start of a walk, cackling into the air with wings whirring, shocking me into shooting mode. In the slightly warmer days that have passed into the recent history of this year’s hunting […]
Our Outdoors: All Good Things
By Nick Simonson Welcome to the final stretch of hunting season. By this time, boot leather should be well worn, blaze orange faded to a dull peach, and that reliable camouflage coat covered in mud, spilled coffee and other stains that evidence a successful go of things thus far. So it is at this time […]
