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A lot of angers get overwhelmed when searching for the best bass flies. They see the staggering number of soft plastics, jigs, and other baits used by the conventional crowd and think they have to follow suit. And while you could fill a boatload of fly boxes with all sorts of different patterns, you don’t really have to. Whether you’re fishing a farm pond, a small river, a sprawling reservoir, or something in between, you really only need a few different patterns in various colors and sizes to catch bass.The key to building a box full of the best bass…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. An animal that doesn’t scare you isn’t worth shooting. A hunting trip that doesn’t produce a few new gray hairs on your poll isn’t worth taking. Now, I’ll admit that this is only one man’s opinion. I’m not bigoted about it. I’m not raising the issue of “sportsmanship”—I have no qualms about shooting animals. I know that the game species must be kept in balance. My attitude is a selfish one—I’ve reached the point where I don’t think it is any fun to shoot an…

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Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news from Outdoor Life. This year’s bow test was by far the most competitive we’ve seen. After shooting seven flagship compound bows for three days, which included shooting 405 arrows for accuracy testing, we chose a definitive winner and concluded that we are indeed in the golden era of compound bows.  We’ve consistently said that all the flagship bows are good, but this year, all of them are excellent. Bow buying is no longer a question sorting the best bows from the lemons. It’s now a matter of taste…

Sign up for This Happened to Me News on backcountry adventure and wilderness survival. The bowline is an ancient knot. It dates so far back historians can’t even pinpoint who tied it first, but what makes it so impressive is that it’s as important and useful today as it was to mariners, farmers, warriors, and hunters hundreds if not thousands of years ago.  So, why should you learn how to tie a bowline knot? Because if you spend enough time in the outdoors it’s almost a guarantee that at some point, you’ll need it for some minor or major task.…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics There have been a lot of arguments on the perennial question of whether, inch for inch and pound for pound, the smallmouth bass or the speckled trout is the gamer fish. Some have been pretty fair arguments, too, but they’re puny affairs alongside the ones I’m about to promote. For sheer fighting ability, brawn, guts, and endurance I nominate a finny character you likely rate very inelegant indeed. He is big-scaled and unlovely. His color is that of the bottom where he dwells. His mug is…