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Posts by James L. Bruner

Fish And Game Recipes

Fish And Game Recipes

Any day is a great day for a hardy helping of fresh fish and game served hot from the grill or toasted to perfection from your oven. We categorize each type of fish and game so you can quickly find exactly what you’re looking for. If you have a favorite recipe you would like to […]

Illustrated Fly Tying Lessons

Illustrated Fly Tying Lessons

It’s an art form for many fishermen and an impossible task for many others. While patience and attention to detail are key components to becoming an efficient fly-tyer there’s no substitute for experience and the understanding of the local creepy crawlies that trout call dinner. Whether they are graceful winged emergence just beginning a new […]

Ice Fishing Tips For Beginners

Ice Fishing Tips For Beginners

Some of the best ice fishing tips are so basic that veteran fishermen just figure that they are common knowledge. And they are to us veteran fishermen. But to new fishermen just starting out who are armed with nothing more than a pole, a bucket, and a hand ice auger, any ice fishing tip is […]

Hunting Winter Rabbits With A Bow

Hunting Winter Rabbits With A Bow

There has been a point in my outdoor lifestyle that has taken all my time and focus at one time or another. Not to say the others didn’t matter, it was more of an obsessive trait. For a couple seasons I was completely immersed in waterfowl hunting and often ditched my archery hunts for a […]

The Coolest Fishing Memories

The Coolest Fishing Memories

I will say one thing for ice fishing. You’re typically going to have more time on your hands waiting for a strike than you are catching fish. So it’s not uncommon that you find yourself looking for ways to pass the time especially when it’s a balmy zero degrees outside with 30 mph winds whipping […]

Jim Zumbo’s E-Z Cow Call Review

Jim Zumbo’s E-Z Cow Call Review

When you have made a critical mistake in elk country and have really blown it, you find how unforgiving elk can be. Maybe intolerant is a better word, but nonetheless elk will vacate an area in grand style when something sets them off. Unlike the whitetail that will rarely leave a small core home range […]

My 2010 Bow Hunt by Jim Peterson

My 2010 Bow Hunt by Jim Peterson

It was a cold evening, I had just gotten home from work and could not wait to get packed and loaded so I could just jump into the Ford truck the next morning at 4 am. It was late in the regular bow season and word was out that the rut appeared to be arriving […]

Dealing With Deer Hunting Trespassers

Dealing With Deer Hunting Trespassers

Sitting here with my feet firmly planted atop this big desk and losing myself in this chair, I find my mind bouncing back and forth. Opening day of the 2010 firearm deer season breaks loose here in Michigan just 4 hours from now. I’m neither tired or excited. Or maybe I’m too excited to realize […]

The Colorado from Thomas Spinning Lur...

The Colorado from Thomas Spinning Lures Inc.

By the time warm summer water temperatures in lakes and deeper slow moving streams begin to rescind from as high as the 70’s all the way back to the 50’s in October, many species of trout in these warmer waters have already met their demise. If the early spring anglers did not take them out, […]

Moving to L.A. by Rob Robinson

Moving to L.A. by Rob Robinson

Well the move of Robinson Outdoors to L.A. is complete. No I haven’t lost my mind and gone to Los Angeles. That is L.A. as in lower Alabama. My paying gig has caused me to move to Hartford Al., a small agricultural town outside Dothan. I now live where over one half of the world’s […]