Hunting Whitetail Deer Using Deer Drives   

Written by David Selman, Tracker-Outdoors.com


Driving deer can work almost anytime, but it's especially useful when deer won't  budge from thick cover. When staging a drive, a group (or a pair) of hunters splits into two groups: drivers and posters. The drivers walk through holding cover, trying to push deer towardrepparttar posters, who sit still waiting to ambush driven deer.

The key lies in choosingrepparttar 133149 right area to drive. First, you need patch of cover  that holds deer, such as a daytime bedding area. Second,repparttar 133150 area must not be too large for your group to effectively push. Third,repparttar 133151 area should offers some  predictability as to whererepparttar 133152 deer will go when driven.

Flies For Great Lakes Steelhead

Written by Cameron Larsen


As we stated in our article on Pacific Steelhead flies,repparttar steelhead fisheries ofrepparttar 133148 Great Lakes region has developed differently. First offrepparttar 133149 Erie steelhead has only been around a little over a hundred years. First planted inrepparttar 133150 1880’s,repparttar 133151 steelhead nearly died off inrepparttar 133152 1950’s due to pollution in Lake Erie. But sincerepparttar 133153 1980’s, intense stocking efforts by Ontario, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania have beenrepparttar 133154 reason for this area being nicknamed Steelhead Alley.

Erie steelheaders use a wide array flies in their pursuit of this most worthy game fish. One can classify them broadly inrepparttar 133155 same way trout angler’s classify flies. In generalrepparttar 133156 Erie steelheader carries a variety of streamers, egg patterns, and nymphs.

Steelhead feed heavily on schools of shad, smelt and other fish inrepparttar 133157 summer months. And when they first enterrepparttar 133158 river they have fish on their brains. Streamer patterns arerepparttar 133159 thing to start off with, when steelhead are first stacking up to make their run. Primary patterns used arerepparttar 133160 woolly bugger, Mickey Finn, Muddler Minnows and other streamer patterns. Dead drifted or swung they are deadly inrepparttar 133161 early months.

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