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Brian O'Keefe wants to make sure I have both hat and head on straight before we launch the pontoon raft on a 15-mile stretch of a summer steelhead stream. 'We'll [...]

HARRY MURRAY'S STAINLESS STEEL SPATULA ZIPS FIVE GREEN PILLS AT A TIME ACROSS THE COUNTING TRAY AS HE GIVES AN ANIMATED TUTORIAL ON DRIFT NYMPHING, HIS FAVORITE smallmouth tactic. 'What [...]

THE BASS PRO HAD A TAN HE WOULD TAKE TO HIS GRAVE, AND A callused thumb upon which you could safely put out a cigarette. 'Every cast I make, I'm [...]

IT'S MIDSUMMER, AND THE GREEN WORLD has shifted into overdrive. The kudzu is moving faster than you are. Poison ivy is so happy, it's weeping dangerous tears. And out over [...]

HOW HARD CAN IT BE TO PUT AN ARROW INTO A DEER? AND WHEN WILL THE REST OF MY LIFE START TO MATTER AGAIN? I found the only other guy [...]

Too many folks, turkey hunting is what keeps you sharp for deer season, but this man knows better. 'Get ya butt to bed,' Squawks the rose-breasted cockatoo in Jimmy Webber's [...]

This is Field & Stream's premier installment of American Scene, a series of fly-on-the-wall reports on outdoorsmen participating in the actual chase and in all manner of rituals that are [...]

One more try. We part the 4x4 in a field and walk single-file down a ridge path through the hardwoods, calling every 100 yards. It's late morning in Virginia, the [...]

All I know is the tug in my blood that announced itself suddenly in my late thirties must have come from someplace. I can't lay it at the feet of [...]

'CAN I TELL YOU SOMETHING?' the famous outdoor writer asked suddenly. We'd been in his jeep for about 100 miles on our way to a tidal river on Maryland's eastern [...]

I keep opening the hatch to the livewell to make sure this is really happening to me. Inside is a largemouth twice as big as any I've ever caught before: [...]

I WAS FEELING PRETTY ORGANIZED FOR A GUY WHO OFTEN shows up at work without a belt. It was my third camping trip with my girlfriend, Jane, and because the [...]

When time is short and the fishing is more important than the catching, this is the place to be. It's the place you can get to in under an hour, [...]

I'VE JUST BUSTLED INTO MY boss' office like the Energizer Bunny, had him sign off on a few things to pump his ego, asked his advice on several matters I've [...]

Does your best fishing partner always have to be your best friend? Not necessarily. 'Think they might be moving,' says a voice on the phone. It's Greg. We last spoke [...]