Here’s what’s worth reading today, Tuesday, April 16, 2019:
Texas turkey hunting offers chance to get back to basics of tracking: If you’re looking to get back to the basics, spring turkey hunting is the pursuit for you. Improved technology in the form of more realistic decoys and calls and advances in shotguns and camouflage certainly have helped to even the playing field, but a gobbler is near the top of the list – if not in the top spot – in terms of hampering hunter success.
Hunting spring gobblers-10 steps to improve your success this spring: Spring turkey hunting is tough. Of course if you watch hunting TV shows that’s not the way the film crews make it look. A few yelps, a cluck or two and the television star is rushing out to gather his fallen quarry, usually a trophy bird with long, sharp spurs. And we’ve all certainly heard the tales about the guy who stumbles into the woods, cranks out his first calls ever on a cheap box, and nails a huge tom.
Couple stranded in crocodile-infested area for 26 hours rescued after etching ‘help’ in mud: A couple stranded in a remote part of Australia has been rescued after scratching a mayday call into the mud that could be seen from the air.
Fly fishing books everyone should read: A few essentials of fly fishing literature.
Hunters must be aware of changing deer populations: Change is not always pleasant. Much of life has been changed either by technology, cyclical climate change, human population growth or political correctness. But stay with me; this isn’t about politics.
Habitat project aims to repair what Harvey broke: When Hurricane Harvey rolled ashore in Texas in August 2017, it left a trail of destruction that is still being repaired today, and a habitat project underway along the banks of Dickinson Bayou will put back repaired marsh that washed away in the storm’s extraordinary floods.
Colorado man who killed bull moose fined $20,000, could face hunting and fishing suspension: A Broomfield man who illegally killed and then abandoned a bull moose in Grand County without a valid hunting license will have to pay about $20,000 in fines and could be banned from hunting and fishing for up to five years in 47 states.
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