1989 Outdoor Life

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January
Features - Finest Of The Fleet (Our picks for performance afloat this spring); Back Of Beyond Bucks (To hunt wilderness bucks you need a game plan. Here it is); Quest For A Dream Bull (More and more hunters are looking to quality areas for trophy bulls); Bear Tales (I've collected a good many bear stories over the years. Here are a few); Gamble For Big Game (Taking a chance on a permit lottery could be your best hunting gamble); Cold Weather Walleyes (If you can stand the weather, you stand to catch more and bigger walleyes); Outfitters: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (Know how to seperate good and bad outfitters before you book your hunt); Trucks To Take Afield (New pickups offer new action for '89); Moose By The Rafters (Our Alaska rafting trip almost turned into disaster) Midwest Series - News From The Midwest (Another Great Lakes invader, Illinois gobblers, Indiana shot limits and more); Central Basin Steelhead (As long as the streams remain open, Ohio steelhead keep biting); Lamprey Crisis (The sea lamprey is again endangering Great Lakes fish life); Gopher Ice 'Eyes (The winter walleye bite is on in these Minnesota lakes); Turkeys The First Time (Lots of gobblers and some new areas in Michigan where you can hunt); Turkey Report '89 (Here's our exclusive state-by-state turkey hunting forecast) Departments - The Editorial Page; What's On Your Mind?; What's New; Fishing; Boating; Shooting; Taking Aim; Sports Medicine; Easy Projects; Hunting Dogs; Sport Vehicles; The Last Laugh Reader Information - Where To Go; Dog And Kennel; Game Breeding; Classified
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February
Features - Electrified! (A simple fence repair almost cost my dog its life); A Sporting Competition (Here's where to watch and compete in sporting clays in 1989); Mud-Line Walleyes (Sure, walleyes like structure but they love the mud, too); Turkey Calling Is Going To The Birds (It's great to have command of turkey lingo, but often just a cluck will do); Leopard: A Most Dangerous Game (Leopard hunting can get a man killed. But I was willing to risk it); Cold-Water Surface Bass (Bass in the cold - at night - with surface lures? Sounds nuts, but it works); Following In My Footsteps (I had taught my son my love of hunting: now I would see what he had learned); Secrets To Slab-Sized Crappies (Use forethought and technique to catch den-wall-worthy size crappies); The Jack O'Connor Letters (Thirty years of correspondence tell much of Shooting Editor Jack O'Connor); Lakers East To West (There are no rules to lake fishing, but there are common threads to success) Midwest Specials - News From The Midwest (Indiana turkeys, Michigan bear results, Illinois pheasant help and much more); Turnover Salmon (Great Lakes spring salmon fishing is simply a hunt for the temperature break); Iceberg Walleyes (Ice-out on Lake Erie yields the biggest walleyes of the year); High On Hybrids (The Illinois striper is the newest and most popular kid on the block); Calling All Predators (Minnesota is very likely the best predator hunting states in the U.S.); Heat's On For Crappies (Missouri's Thomas Hill Reservoir is the state's winter crappie hotspot); Hoosier Gobblers (More toms and more places to hunt. That's what faces Indiana hunters) Departments - What's On Your Mind?; What's New; Fishing; Boating; Sport Vehicles; Sports Medicine; Taking Aim; Hunting Dogs; Easy Projects; Shooting; The Last Laugh Reader Information - Where To Go; Dog And Kennel; Game Breeding; Classified
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March
Features - Rammed! (We were charged by two big rams and fell to the canyon floor); Secret Season Trout (This grim and almost-winter season is a fine time to start fishing); Turkey Hunting's Cutting Edge (In woods and contests everywhere, cutting is now the end-all call); How To Catch The Biggest Bass In Any Lake (Big-bass fishing is like big-buck hunting. Change your tactics); A Second Chance (Read about two reissued permits, two hunters and one big buck); Down-Under Panfish (Artificial flies and lures can be lethal to panfish - even in deeper waters); The Jack O'Connor Letters (Legendary Shooting Editor Jack O'Connor's unpublished letters tell much of the man); The Care And Feeding Of Fishing Guides (Be the best fisherman so that you can have the best guide); Newest Tackle For '89 (Here's the latest tackle that could make for your best fishing season ever); Big Sky Hike (Escape into nature in it's purest form on a high-country horse trip); Fine-Tune Your Lures (Get an edge on the competition by learning how to improve your lures) Midwest Specials - News From The Midwest (An 11-point Ohio doe, Dakota fish records, Illinois gobbler forecast and more); The Race For Walleyes (Now's the time to take the year's biggest walleyes - in tailraces); Lincoln Bass (Southern Illinois is trophy-bass country in these Lincoln-land lakes); Silver Bullets (The new fish on the Indiana block is the hybrid striper); Bass Of A Different Color (The white bass run is on in Ohio. Here are the best rivers to fish); Big-Lake River Mouths (Lake Michigan river mouths are your pipeline to spring fish); Turkey Islands (Missouri's turkey islands may mean less hunting competition this spring) <>u>Departments - What's On Your Mind?; What's New; Fishing; Sporting Clays; Boating; Sport Vehicles; Easy Projects; Taking Aim; Shooting; Sports Medicine; Hunting Dogs; The Last Laugh Reader Information - Where To Go; Dog And Kennel; Game Breeding; Classified
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May
Features - Out Of Bed Bass (Have trouble finding post-spawn bass? Look for holding zones); In Deep Over Walleyes (Fishing for suspended walleyes may be your best ticket to big fish); Tactics For Spring Spawners (Judicious use of cunning and sense will net you slab-sized crappies); Summer Smallmouth Secrets (Change your strategy and offering to catch post-spawn smallmouths); Is Lake Michigan Dying Again? (There's trouble on Lake Michigan and the search is on for help); Unlock Your Trout Stream (All streams were not created equal. Here's how to figure out yours); Murphy's Pride (Pride goeth before the fall of a big buck. So it was with Murphy); Lodges On The Run (Pacific anglers are "float fishing" for salmon...from their lodges); Pumping Iron (For many species - shallow or deep - jigging spoons can carry a lot of weight); Strung Out (I was hooked by my own trotline and in a struggle to survive) Midwest Specials - News From The Midwest (Wisconsin and Michigan bear news, Illinois perch, Missouri record bass and more); Whiskered Giant (In the mood to change from channels? Try Ohio flathead cats); Sylvan Lake Comeback (A lake that was seemingly dead five years ago has come back to life); Break The Walleye Record (Here are the best places to break your state's walleye record); Stalking The State Fish (Bluegills are on their beds in Illinois. Here's where to catch them); Winter Muskies (Wisconsin's Lake Winter is wall to wall muskie habitat); Just Big 'Gills (Slab-sized bluegills are a fact in these Michigan U.P. lakes) Departments - What's On Your Mind?; The Editorial Page; What's New; Sporting Clays; Sport Vehicles; Shooting; Fishing; Hunting Dogs; Boating; Easy Projects; Taking Aim; Sports Medicine; The Last Laugh Reader Information - Where To Go; Dog And Kennel; Game Breedilng; Classified
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June
Features - A Midsummer's Trout Dream (Some of the year's finest trout fishing is done during the dog days); The Best Bass Bait (Call on crayfish and you'll never have to worry if the bass will answer); The Dock Side Of Bassing (Fishing for largemouth around docks can be an enlightening experience); The Mourning After (Sol Sweatland loved to deer hunt so much that he'd even die for it); Waveless Walleyes (A walleye chop means great fishing but so can calm waters); Cross-Country Bass Fishing (From sea to shining sea, we searched for America's best bass fishing); Keep And Release Fishing (A camera may just be your best tool in "keeping" a fish for life); Lessons For A Lifetime (Raising our daughter the right way was our biggest outdoor adventure); A Boat Launch (The boat was headed right at us on a collision course with death) Midwest Specials - News From The Midwest (Huge Michigan muskie, Wisconsin mule deer, Iowa trophy turkey and more); Canoe Country Walleyes (The BWCAW is not only beautiful, but it is also a great place to catch walleyes); Walleyes On The Border (These Michigan/Wisconsin border lakes are top-notch marble-eye waters); Ground Chucks Supreme (Hunting Ohio woodchucks is the best way to get ready for deer season); Double Dip Bass (Want to give mixed-bag fishing a try? Head to these Indiana lakes); Pick Six Walleyes (Bass may still be the Missouri fish of choice, but walleyes are coming in); Float To Pike (Michigan has some good pike waters, but its rivers may prove to be the best) Departments - The Editorial Page; What's On Your Mind?; What's New; Sport Vehicles; Boating; Easy Projects; Fishing; Hunting Dogs; Shooting; Sports Medicine; Sporting Clays; The Last Laugh Reader Information - Where To Go; Dog And Kennel; Game Breeding; Classified
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July
Features - The Bass Of Summer (Summer bassing's not cool. It's hot. And things are heating up right now); The Bear Guardian (Could a star actually be guarding our bear? We intended to find out); Bucks In The 'Burbs (Whitetails have changed. You can now find them where they shouldn't be); The Land Of Legendary Brook Trout (Labrador is the last frontier to fish for outstanding brookies); George Custer: Nomad Hunter Of The Plains (Between skirmishes with the Indians, Custer was a passionate hunter); New Guns For '89 (Sheer, unrelenting quality is the keynote for this year's new guns); Reelin' In The Year 1989 (Here's all you need to know about this year's newest fishing clothes); Over-Smoked Fish (Here's a method for making smoked fish if you don't have a smokehouse); A Snake In The Grass (Talk about being rattled by turkeys! Our gobbler hunt was fang-tastic) Midwest Specials - News From The Midwest (Minnesota's salmon king, Illinois waterfowl woes, North Dakota fishing report and more); Best Of The Midwest (Last year was the best-ever for trophy bucks. Feast your eyes on these); Get On The Perch (Now's the time to load the coolers with abundant and catchable perch) Departments - What's On Your Mind?; What's New; Boating; Easy Projects; Fishing; Sporting Clays; Sport Vehicles; Hunting Dogs; Taking Aim; Sports Medicine; Shooting; The Last Laugh Reader Information - Where To Go; Dog And Kennel; Game Breeding; Classified
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August
Features - The Sting (Some uninvited guests turned our boat ride into a buzz-ness trip); Words To The Whitetail (Hunters who learn deer vocalization speak the language of success); Beyond The Bugle (A New Mexico hunt taught me a few tricks on calling early season elk); Riding Radio Waves To Your Fish (Loran C receivers help inland anglers find the hotspots or the way home); Banking For Big Bucks (Big mule deer in the bottomlands? You bet - some of the biggest); Dating The Devil Fish (No musky story is too wild; they're the fish made to lie about); Boiling Cats (Find the turbulent water below dams, and you'll find the log-sized cats); Bass Between A Rock And A Hard Place (Summer largemouth fishing doesn't have to be a perservance test); Fishing By Phases (Based on moon phases, these charts show the year's best fishing days) Midwest Specials - News From The Midwest (Wisconsin fish shuffle, South Dakota tiger tale, Indiana's bonus permits and more); Wade Out A Catfish (Discover a great way to spend a late summer day in northern Missouri); Green Whites (Fish deep for white bass on Wisconsin's glacier-made Green Lake); Dog Days Brookies (Find out where the pound-plus brookies of the North Shore are hiding); Cats As Catch Can (For an abundance of year-round catfishing, head to the Hoosier State); Best Four Bass (You don't know where to go for largemouths in Ohio? Look no more); Summer Kings (A new strain of brawny kings will test the tackle of Michigan anglers) Departments - The Editorial Page; What's On Your Mind?; What's New; Boating; Hunting Dogs; Fishing; Sporting Clays; Easy Projects; Shooting; Sport Vehicles; Taking Aim; Sports Medicine; The Last Laugh Reader Information - Where To Go; Dog And Kennel; Game Breeding; Classified
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September
Features - Deer Forecast 1989 (Ensure a quality deer season by reading our nationwide forecast); Un-Called-For Elk (Not on speaking terms with elk? Try one of these methods to connect); How To Tickle A Whitetail (Instead or rattling this year, try tickling that big buck into range); A Squirrel Call That Works (Game calls come and go, but here's a squirrel call that really works); On The Right Track For Muleys (By reading tracks, you can predict a trophy buck's next move); Boomerang Bucks (Antelope can be predictable. Learn their tendecies and score); Lifestyles Of The Old And Wary (We call them OW bucks. You may call them unhuntable); The Newest Way To Take Fish (Float trotting may seem weird to some, but it's the latest rage in fishing); Boots Are Better (Synthetics are combining with leather and rubber for comfort afield); Bulled Over (We were out after moose but didn't expect our close encounter) Midwest Specials - News From The Midwest (Michigan record buck, Indiana hunting reservation, Iowa squirrels and more); Deer Report '89 (The 1988 deer season was outstanding, but this state-by-state forecast reveals that 1989 may be even better. Deer numbers continue to increase throughout the Midwest, and hunters can look foreward to yet another record-breaking year) Departments - What's On Your Mind?; What's New; Sporting Clays; Shooting; Boating; Sport Vehicles; Fishing; Taking Aim; Easy Projects; Hunting Dogs; Sports Medicine; The Last Laugh Reader Information - Where To Go; Dog And Kennel; Game Breeding; Classified
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October
Features - Blueprinting Big Bucks (This recent study just might help you take a trophy buck this year); Elk In All Seasons (Late, middle or early, it matters not. Any season is good for elk); Field Of Pheasant Dreams (Bigger is better might be the best idea to ever hit pheasant hunting); Keep The Heat On Fall Bass (When bass are still on picnic patterns, don't throw 'em a snowball); Stone Cold Muleys (When the weather outside is frightful, the deer hunting is delightful); Bottom Bouncing Walleyes (Bottom bouncers have been used for years but remain walleye dynamite); Inside Pat McManus (Pat McManus explains himself, and his humor, from Aaaiii! to Zip); Mink Stink (I thought I was reaching for a lame duck but got a handful of mink instead) Midwest Specials - News From The Midwest (Missouri turkey report, new Nebraska deer hunt, Wisconsin elk and much more); A Ruff Fall (Midwestern grouse hunters may be in for the best fall of their lives); Glbblers In The Bootheel (Here's where Missouri hunters can get away from it all and into birds); Gray Brushup (If you want to brush up before deer season, remember squirrel time); Straits Down Bucks (Sure, U.P. deer hunting is good but action's best below the Straits); Superior Bucks (Minnesota's winter of '88 was tough, but the deer were tougher) Departments - What's On Your Mind?; What's New; Taking Aim; Fishing; Sport Vehicles; Hunting Dogs; Boating; Shooting; Easy Projects; Sporting Clays; Sports Medicine; The Last Laugh Reader Information - Where To Go; Dog And Kennel; Game Breeding; Classified
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November
Features - Walk Softly But...(Deer can be unpredictible. Take it from me - I almost died); Lights, Big Game, Action (From Alabama to Alaska, you can hunt year-round with a camera); Bears By Invitation (With a predator call, you can lure bear right to the welcome mat); Bottleneck Your Buck (Don't hunt deer where they may pass - hunt where they must pass); Buck 'N Bull Bow (Scoring twice on opening morning had seemed impossible hours before); Cold-Current Smallmouths (Some of the year's biggest smallies are taken when rivers run cold); H2Onkers (For Canada goose hunting at its best, take to the water); Bucks Where You Least Expect Them (No hiding place is too small for a smart trophy whitetail buck); Father To Daughter (Taking my daughter fishing - alone - taught us both a thing or two); Clothing On The Cutting Edge (Dressing right could not only save your hunt, it could save your life) Midwest Specials - News From The Midwest (The pike that ate too much, Kansas trophy buck, Michigan record gobbler and more); Halloween 'Eyes (Think deer all you want, but now is prime time for big walleyes); Go West, Deer Hunter (Western Ohio deer numbers are growing as is hunting success); Bucks Out Of Pocket (Gaining access to prime Michigan deer land is anything but impossible); Zone 2 Is No. 1 (Minnesota's Zone 2 is huge but so are the trophy whitetails); 'Tails From The Timber (Deer leases got you down? Head for Missouri's tall-timber bucks); No-Lease Geese (Sure, ducks are in trouble but geese have more than made up the difference) Departments - What's On Your Mind?; What's New; Taking Aim; Shooting; Boating; Sporting Clays; Hunting Dogs; Sport Vehicles; Fishing; Easy Projects; Sports Medicine; The Last Laugh Reader Information - Where To Go; Dog And Kennel; Game Breeding; Classified
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December
Features - Grizzly Details (My ram hunt was successful but almost ended up in death); In Stalking Feet (It takes self-control and smarts to be a successful stalker); Empty-Niche Elk (Finding elk can be as simple as going where other humans aren't); Chinese Checkers Ringnecks (Proper positioning on ringnecks can make the hunt seem like child's play); Perfect Venison (Prepare a no-fail and spectacular venison roast for Christmas dinner); Where To Hook A Hawg Next Year (From east to west, here's where to find America's best bass); Are Lake Michigan's Fish Dangerous To Your Health? (We've done our own fish testing to put the debate to rest); High-Tech Hunting (Use a computer to give yourself an edge in deer-hunting preparation) Midwest Specials - News From The Midwest (Missouri striper record, Indiana duck hunting, Michign salmon news and more); Bottom-Out Bucks (The Wisconsin bottoms is tops when it comes to late-season deer); Tail-End Cottontails (Once snow covers the Ohio thickets, cottontail hunting is at its very best); The City Of Steelhead (Some of Michigan's best fishing is near one of its biggest cities); Last Chance Whitetails (It may be the 11th hour, but Indiana's deer season is not over yet); Curtain Call Whitetails (If you hate Missouri deer season crowds, try hunting late with a bow); Christmastime Quail Hunting (Nebraska quail numbers are up and now is the best time to hunt 'em up); Holiday Season Ringnecks (If you were left in the cold on the Iowa opener, wait til it gets colder) Departments - What's On Your Mind?; What's New; Hunting Dogs; Shooting; Taking Aim; Sporting Clays; Easy Projects; Sport Vehicles; Sports Medicine; The Last Laugh Reader Information - Where To Go; Dog And Kennel; Game Breeding; Classified
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