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I certainly can!  One would think that most of these events were caused by wild animals, i.e. cougars, bear or wild boar. Some were, but some of the scariest things that happened to me had nothing to do with critters with fangs and claws.  A few years ago I was up in Canada, just a few miles for the Northwest Territories on a fly-in fishing trip. A group of friends and I drove five hours north of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and boarded a float plane and went "way north" to a distant fishing camp. There was one way in and one way out and that was via float plane th...

My longtime friend Bill Carey with Striper Express has a saying, “Remember December.” He’s referring to the awesome striper fishing that occurs during the winter months at Lake Texoma. Earlier this week, my good friend Jeff Rice and I joined Bill for an awesome day on the water. Granted, the weather was terrible, at least from a striper’s point of view. There was almost no wind, bright sunny skies and a temperature that climbed to just over 70 degrees — what we fishermen call a bluebird day. Stripers are a saltwater transplant fish, and it seems the rougher the weathe...

5:00 Wild hogs that receive little hunting pressure can often be hunted successfully at all hours of the day but put a bit of pressure on wild porkers and they are quick to become almost entirely nocturnal. Ask any veteran hog hunter when he has taken the majority of his hogs and chances are very good he will say, "during the last 30 minutes of daylight, just before dark.” After several months of deer hunters spending time in the woods, hogs become more pressured than ever this time of year. There are very few hard and fast rules when it comes to hunting hogs, they are a nomadic critter, of...