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Four days on Chequamegon Bay Hello friends, For the first time since 1989 I am going to write to you over two separate weeks, two different ways of describing the same trip. I just returned from an...

Monster Walleye on Little Bay de Noc Hello friends, This past week I put another serious test on the Chevy Hotel with the load I was pulling and some go for it driving on Upper Michigan's Little Bay d...

Excellent Fishing in Sawyer County Hello friends, This week's column will be all over the map but it's a good one. Location: Sawyer County near Birchwood. Activity: winter camp on Chetac lake with my...

The 5th Annual "Tip Up Pike Jam" Hello friends, Some of you may remember when I wrote back in January about going on an ice fishing/camping trip with my 22-year-old daughter Selina Walters and she...

The Hunt for a Sturgeon Hello friends, This week I was over in Calumet County near Stockbridge, hunting sturgeon with a bunch of my friends on Lake Winnebago. As you may be aware, I suck at actually...

Destination, Blades Bait & Tackle Kipling Michigan Hello friends, This week's column is about a very progressive and hard-working couple that over the last 3 years has created Blades Baits and Tackle...

Lake Tomah/A Good Time Had by All Hello friends, This week's column is all about what can happen when good people pull together and try to do good things. I have mentioned that Kids and Mentors...

Buffalo City/Mississippi River Camping Trip Hello friends, This week's column is all over the map, and as sometimes happens in the world of outdoor travel, its full of “this went wrong” kind of ex...

Hello friends, My good friend Rod Bensley of Burnett "Beaver Dam area" told me back in early June of 2021 that he had rectal and prostate cancer and would probably die by September. Rod owned and...

Hello friends, This week's column is going to be all over the map because there is a lot to tell in the space that I have to tell it. So, I am at one of those F and F stores that outdoorsmen and...

Cold Weather Goose Hunt Hello friends, This December I was drove on the interstate near Deforest in mid-December, headed to my good friend Dick Emerson's funeral. I had just wrote about Dick the week...

Back to "The Joe" Hello friends, This week's column is all over the map on a very positive subject. Back in 2006 I had an idea to start an organization through this column to get kids outside. In...

Camping/Ice fishing on Lake Puckaway Hello friends, As I write this week's column, I have been without electricity due to a winter storm for 30-hours. About all I can say is that it feels like I...

A Big Day in the Tree Stand Hello friends, This week's column is about opening day of the Wisconsin's gun deer season and our deer camp The Red Brush Gang. We live out of a 18x36 foot shack that we pu...

Hello friends, This is the 3rd and last column that I will be writing on my elk hunt, and it will have a lot to do with the day-to-day existence of a solo elk hunter living in mountains where a heavy...

Hello friends What you are about to read is good stuff and it is about one of the craziest, most unique, and challenging days of my 61-years walking this earth. Five days earlier I had left Wisconsin...

Hello friends, I recently returned from what for myself was an epic adventure that I did by myself and that was, hunting elk and mule deer while living in the mountains in southern Montana for...

Hello friends, This is one of those week's where I have five times more material than the space to write it. This column is dedicated to my good friend Rod Bensley who lives with his wife Wendy Vick n...

Hello friends, I started running bear baits with my girlfriend Michelle Chiaro on April 15th in northern Juneau County as I have for the last 13-years. It seems like a lifetime of situations has happe...

Hello friends, I was supposed to be on a very simple goose hunt near Burnett for this week's trip but that changed when my hunting partner told me that there were not any geese coming into the fields...

Hello friends, This was at least the 20th year in a row that I was in what could be best described as a very fun weekend of musky fishing where several veterans and a whole bunch of guys "The Red...

Hello friends, This past week I headed to Green Bay with my 18.6 War Eagle, both of my golden retrievers Ruby and her 5-month-old pup "Red" for two days on the water and a night of camping. My plan...

Hello friends, The column that I am about to write was supposed to be written on June 15th and it is my annual hobby farming getting by with nature as much as possible story. Instead, the good lord...

Hello friends, This week's column is about a simple, do as little as possible camping trip on a sand bar on the Wisconsin River near Boscobel with my golden retriever Ruby and her four-month-old pup...

Hello friends, This week's column is going to be all over the map but centered around one thought, and that is memories and what has taken place since my life partner Michelle Chiaro who was an ICU...