Canada’s own Jim Shockey and his crew picked up three honours for their hunting programs last Thursday at the Outdoor Channel’s 12th Annual Golden Moose Awards gala in Las Vegas. Held in conjunction with the massive Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade Show and Conference, the...
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Big congratulations are in order for this year’s crop of new inductees into the Canadian Angler Hall of Fame: Pete Bowman, Wayne Izumi, Phil Morlock and Bob Paterson. Announced just yesterday, the four new Hall of Famers will be officially honoured February 17 during the annual...
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Down below is a video teaser for my adventure travel feature "Operation Tyee," which appears in the Fishing 2012 issue of Outdoor Canada magazine (on newsstands February 6). Many of the images shown here do not appear in the print article. The following events took place July 17...
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Although I didn’t get to venture down to Vegas this week for the giant annual hunting and firearms convention known as the SHOT Show, I at least got out in the field yesterday to snap off a few rounds, break some clays and tumble a couple of birds. In the process, I also...
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There aren't too many guys you can call a "knot head" and get away with it. Fortunately, Bob Foran isn't one of them. As a matter of fact, the Pure Fishing pro staffer relishes the nickname, and it is fitting, because there are few anglers who know as much about fishing lines...
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My fellow editors and I here at Outdoor Canada just returned to the office from the Toronto International Boat Show down at the Direct Energy Centre, and now I can’t wait for the open-water season to arrive. Why? We just had a sneak preview of the official new Outdoor Canada...
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You know the situation. Really, who hasn’t been there? You’re holed up in an abandoned farmhouse with a horde of brain-hungry zombies outside, and they're close to busting in the doors and windows. It’s certainly NOT the time to be worrying if your gun might jam. Instead,...
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As anyone who reads my stuff in Outdoor Canada Magazine - or watches the winter ice fishing shows we shoot - knows, I love fishing for big northern pike. Catching pike in the 25- to 30-plus pound class is a passion I can't seem to satisfy. And fishing with big, silvery,...
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Ah, the politician’s life. I thought school teachers (and my three kids) have had, and are having, one heckuva Christmas break: they don’t return to school until next Monday. Um, wasn’t Christmas 11 days ago? Well, I just checked the Parliament of Canada website and learned...
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What's happening in the B.C. park
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