Traveling down U.S. Highway 83, fourteen miles north of Scott City, Kan., one finds themselves surrounded by the typical Western Kansas scenery; farm land and cattle mixed with pastures and the occasional farm-yard. When one makes the turn down Kansas Highway 95, however, the landscape changes drastically. The feeling of semi-desolation among the productive...
Nugent pleas guilty to poaching
The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism released a guide to aging turkeys. The eighth annual Kansas Veterans Memorial Bass Tournament at Coffey County lake is scheduled for April 28. check-in for the tournament occurs at 6 a.m.. Outdoor Life’s Gary Bethge outlined the hottest new fishing bait of the 2012 season in a recent article. Michael...
Fly Fishing Kansas
When it comes to fishing techniques our group of anglers is quite diverse. My fishing pal Duncan McHenry may be the most out-of-place, dawning a fly rod regardless of the situation. On this night, McHenry stole the show with this solid 1 1/2 pound smallmouth bass catch from the shore. This trip to Clinton Reservoir near Lawrence, Kan. didn’t yield the...
Kansas State student wins national college fishing title
Kansas State University student Ryan Patterson won the 2012 National Guard FLW College Fishing National Championship in South Carolina. Collegefishing.com describes his solo run to the title. The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism launched a new voluntary online turkey registration program to help speed the information gathering process for...
Versatility: the key to successful turkey calling
Spring turkey season is open in the state of Kansas and with it many of us are venturing into the woods. This season marks my twentieth year turkey hunting, the last ten of which, I would consider serious. At first, I did what everyone does when they first start calling turkey, a standard four or five-note yelp on a box call. It’s what every single turkey...