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Congrats are in order for 28-year-old guide Silas Turner who landed a record-setting gar while bass fishing. Earlier this month, Turner, of Perry, Georgia, landed the biggest longnose gar ever recorded in the Peach State.
A professional crappie guide and lifelong angler, Turner caught the massive gar on a half-ounce jig while targeting a group of largemouth bass that were schooling beneath bait balls on Lake Blackshear. Turner’s gar dethroned the previous record: a 31-pound, 2-ounce longnose caught by Rachel Harrison on the Coosa River in March 2022.
Swipe through 👉 to read the full story by @travishallmedia featuring @silasturner
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Stuff my grandpa told me: Scout hard, wait ‘em out.
📹 Wild Turkey Project // out now on our YT.
👊 @chenegear @weatherbyinc @fiocchiusa
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Y/N this is your version of 2am camp:
👉 species recapping of the python you caught earlier that day. If that’s your 2am camp, introduce yourself.
If you’re more of “keep the fire stoked, wake up in an hour, start the coffee” camper. No judgments will be rendered. We respect it and we aim for it (most nights).
👉 Field & Stream Fish Camp // Florida Invasive Edition.
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Turn sound on for this one. Close your eyes and imagine you’re glassing a ridge when that crack rolls across the canyon.
This video is for your most stubborn friend 👉 tag them.
Two bighorn rams can hit each other 20 times in a row at highway speed… and walk away like nothing happened.
So how don’t their brains turn into soup? Observations:
💥 Massive curved horns = shock absorbers
💥 Thick skulls spread the force of impact
💥 Spongy bone structure helps dissipate the shock
💥 Necks built like suspension systems
📹 @coloradoadventuresco showing us how sheep country settles arguments.
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Found this old plug digging through a box at Tom’s Sporting Goods in Morristown.
Radar sold it to us for ten bucks.
Worth way more than that.
But that’s not really the point.
📹 @andrewgreenefishing in Tom’s Sporting Goods (TN)
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For decades, the Dalton has been one of the last true DIY wilderness hunts in America but, that could change fast.
Stripping protections from the Dalton Highway also paves the way for the highly controversial Ambler Road. This industrial mining road would branch west off the Dalton, just south of the Middle Fork of the Koyukuk River. Its 211-mile course would allow Canadian and Australian-owned mining companies to access mineral deposits on public land at the southern end of the Brooks Range.
If constructed, the Ambler Road would bisect ancient caribou migrations patterns and disrupt prime wilderness fishing opportunities, according Hunters & Anglers for the Brooks Range, a group that includes scores of hunting and fishing brands along with big-name conservation groups like BHA, the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, and Trout Unlimited—all of which oppose the long-sought Ambler Road project.
Read the full story by @travishallmedia // 🔗 in story.
Alaskan photography by @schumanryan
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Imagine thinking your dad sold No. 2 pencils but he’s actually Tim Wells. And if you’ve ever met Tim Wells… you know sarcasm runs in the family.
On the latest episode of Country Outdoors Podcast, @sydnie_wells shares what it was like growing up with one of the most lethal bowhunters on the planet. For years she had no idea he was a legend in the outdoor world… just her sarcastic dad who took her hunting and fishing.
Full episode: out now, 🔗 in stories.
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This is the time for small rituals.
Archival Project // @fieldandstream & @yuenglingbeer
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Watching a red stag get loaded onto a plane is one of those moments you don’t see every day and even when you do, it’s hard to believe. All credit due to @talliscotterill_ for his hunting trip return-flight receipt.
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A Tennessee angler is celebrating today after catching what should soon be confirmed as the state’s biggest-ever largemouth bass. Darren Nunley caught the 15-plus pound lunker on Nickajack Lake on Saturday, February 28 while fishing with guide and long-time friend @hensleypowell
Nunley was fishing a chatterbait through hydrilla grass at about 8:30 a.m. when the bass hit, Hensley tells F&S. “I caught an 8-pounder on the same hydrilla flat the day before,” the guide and former professional angler recalls. “The bigger fish are starting to move into these flats in preparation for the spawn, so I knew Darren had a good chance at a nice fish.”
Nunley, a resident of Whitwell, Tennessee, says he’s been fishing Nickajack his whole life.
Read the full story by @travishallmedia // 🔗 in story.
📹 Video is courtesy of Darren Nunley.
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🚨 TENNESSEE MONSTER ALERT 🚨
Congrats are in order!!
Darren Nunley just might’ve cracked the state. Nickajack Lake produced a 15.75-pound, 29.5-inch largemouth Saturday … weighed on certified scales at Nunley’s local Save-A-Lot like a Thanksgiving turkey.
The catch is now in the hands of Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, under official review. If it clears? New Tennessee state record. Full stop.
That’s a once-in-a-generation bite. Who’s double-checking their drag settings right now?
Photo credits: Hensley Powell.
Story credit: @shredfin_fishing_co
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The pause before the surge. March is the country clearing its throat. DIY outboard repairs in the driveway. Gobbler glass on the dash. We went back to the Field & Stream archives for this one to savor the quiet stretch before the stories start stacking up again.
Flip through these. Tell us which one feels like yours.
Archival Project // @fieldandstream & @yuenglingbeer
#OldSchoolSunday
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