I'm Not Lyin'
Ron Spomer Outdoors, Kalahari lion
What with all the movies, zoos and National Geographic specials, we feel pretty familiar with African lions. They perform in circuses and animate cartoons. Nice kitty kitty. But when you come face to face with the real deal in the shade of a shrub on the red sands of the Kalahari Desert, you realize there is neither silver screen, flat screen nor any screen between you and 500 pounds of fangs, claws and sinew. The King of Beasts still kills and eats Homo sapiens in Africa. Best back off. Slowly. If this lion attacks, he won't be bluffin' or lyin'. # # #
The unusual nature of pronghorns and the open habitats they roam suggest a fast, flat, wind resistant cartridge and bullet combination. Is the best a 6mm, 25-caliber, or 6.5 caliber?
I’ve always been a firm believer that a big 10- to 12–inch shiner is one of the most effective ways to catch big bass. Unfortunately, your first problem may be finding such big shiners in your local bait shop. You may have to catch them yourself. You can chum for shiners with oatmeal and bread crumbs and catch them with doughballs on a No. 12 or 14 hook. The best way to fish live shiners is to cast them along shorelines or floating vegetation.
It was May, and there were small signs that spring was arriving in northern Quebec. The hardwoods had tiny buds and the pines no longer creaked in the winter winds. Small patches of snow were still visible, but they would soon disappear in the rays of the sun. But spring does not come easy to the north country of Quebec. The ice on Mistassini Lake was not surrendering. It was still thick. Elijah Awashish made his way along the shoreline of the vast lake, hunting and trying to find open water to fish for trout and walleyes. He had a family to feed.
Many years ago, I used it to catch one of my biggest largemouth bass on Indian Lake in New Jersey. I now would never consider tying it to my line and casting it into a bed of lily pads. I also checked eBay and found the same Crazy Crawler for sale for $85. I would have to be destitute before parting with that lure.
Should sport hunting even be allowed? Let’s hope so because it’s restored and protected our wildlife and wild places against unfettered meat hunting for more than a century. Sport hunting means rules and regulations the limit killing while funding restoration and maintenance.
Good old Ma Nature votes against animal rights activists. Her idea of animal rights is every animal has the right to kill and eat whatever it wants. And must. For the good of the system.
