Hello friends,
The last few years I have started my bow hunting season in an adventuresome way near Durand on the Chippewa River and traveled by canoe to get to my stand. This weekend at the …
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9/24/24
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Tree stand accidents are a leading cause of hunting-related injuries, with 300-500 fatalities annually in the U.S., according to the International Hunter Education Association. As Archery and …
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9/24/24
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Hello friends,
I have been friends with "Musky Joe" Flater, who is a 5th generation owner of Flater’s Resort for a good 20 years. Joe is hard to describe in less than a million words. Old …
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By Mark Walters
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9/17/24
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I’ve had my old ten-speed bicycle for a long, long time. Case in point, I can’t remember the bike that I owned before that one. I couldn’t begin to guess how many miles I put on the …
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By Dave Beck
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9/11/24
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Hello friends,
After this past weekend and many decades of doing it, I have figured out that my favorite way to spend time is helping to introduce kids to new outdoor activities. I helped …
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By Mark Walters
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9/10/24
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Tree stand accidents are a leading cause of hunting-related injuries, with 300-500 fatalities annually in the U.S., according to the International Hunter Education Association. As Archery and …
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9/10/24
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Although the final day of the season at the Thorp Aquatic Center is on the horizon for August 25th, fun is still planned for the remaining hot summer days! A “So Long Summer” party will …
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By Danielle Boos
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8/21/24
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Back in May OTT celebrated Forage Month. I wrote about morels, of course, as well as fiddleheads, pheasant tails, ramps, watercress and I think a couple others that escape me right now. The …
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By Dave Beck
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8/14/24
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Hello friends,
This week's column is just pure crazy and fun, as usual, I am short on space. I love to fish Green Bay and do it in both my canoe and my 18.6’ War Eagle. I generally can …
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By Mark Walters
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8/13/24
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Hello friends,
This week's column was going to be about a serious musky fishing trip on Sawyer County’s, Chippewa flowage. Serious musky fishing turned out to be casual musky fishing, …
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8/6/24
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Hello friends,
One of the bonuses about my daughter Selina going to UW-Stevens Point is that she introduced me to several future biologists and this week I will have the pleasure of introducing …
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By Mark Walters
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7/30/24
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Hello friends,
I have something new for you and I think that you are going to like it. My golden retriever Red was bred with an excellent sire named Max. Max is owned by Jim Steurwald of …
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7/23/24
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My game plan during a recent fishing outing was pretty simple: replenish my fish supply. I realized that I had made a slight miscalculation regarding my fish inventory because my freezer was …
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By Dave Beck
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7/17/24
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Hello friends,
This column has spanned over 35 years of my life and this week I have returned home from a wedding on Madeline Island that I simply have to write about. I think that you will …
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By Mark Walters
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7/16/24
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Hello friends,
Last week and this one as well I am writing to you about a 7-day fly-in fishing trip to Shultz Lake in Ontario, Canada where we fly out of Red Lake with Chimo Lodge and Outposts …
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By Mark Walters
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7/9/24
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Hello friends,
Each May I go trout fishing somewhere in Wisconsin. This week I headed down to Columbia County to fish Rowan Creek. I grew up in Poynette and fished Rowan Creek hundreds of times …
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By Mark Walters
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5/21/24
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Hello friends,
If you think that life doesn't go by in a blink of an eye, I am about to show why I feel it does. Thirty-five years ago, this Friday night I wrote my first column. I was living in …
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By Mark Walters
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5/14/24
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This week's column is chalk full of interesting experiences, so I have to be vague, if you know what I mean. Carsyn and Conner Thiede are the 13- and 11-year-old children of Tyler and Patsy Thiede of Mayville
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By Mark Walters
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4/23/24
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Once fierce rivals on the diamond, baseball players from Owen-Withee and Thorp will be teammates moving forward. Starting next season, Thorp and Owen-Withee will co-op for varsity baseball. This …
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By Jimmy Cardinal
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4/23/24
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Scientists at Marshfield Clinic Research Institute are asking the public to submit ticks for a research study called the Tick Inventory via Citizen Science (TICS).
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4/16/24
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