The Black Lab, America’s family dog. There are two types of Labrador retrievers: English and American. The former are beautiful show dogs with average energy and a stockier build. The American black lab is pure bred lunatic. This is the story of Casey – the lunatic.   Casey came home, a 10-week-old puppy, as a surprise. The best surprise a family can get, right? Absolutely, unless your 3 rd child was born just weeks earlier. I was young but old enough to remember the look on

It’s a cold Wisconsin morning for the opening of deer season. My alarm goes off at 4:30 and it’s the rare occasion that I’ve already been up for 20 minutes anticipating the action of the morning. Wisconsin gun deer season is only one week long. Every week of thanksgiving from the Saturday before to the following Sunday. This particular opening day it’s about 10 degrees and I’m the only thing remotely awake. I creep to the basement without waking the rest of the house, grab ev

More affectionately known as the Driftless Region, this part of Wisconsin that dodged the glacial drift, hence the name the driftless region. Some of the biggest whitetail deer in the world call this area of Wisconsin home. They thrive in the lush vegetation and fertile land in large part thanks to the Mississippi river. Some of our country’s most underrated fly fishing is hosted out here. Small rivers and streams fed by ~600 natural springs are dotted with trout. Thousands o

Lake Michigan is a fickle mistress. From boat crushing waves to zero visibility fog, its essentially a freshwater ocean. Inside this...

Cold and dark, only missing one element to make the perfect opening day of Wisconsin duck season. The easiest 4am wakeup of the year is...

We talk a lot about hunting in Wisconsin and the perfect tools to use for the job. In all honesty, there’s never anything perfect. That...

Fishing in Wisconsin’s Driftless region is the stuff of legends. A secluded fishery often not spoken of by those that haven’t experienced...

Wild Bill Hickok was a figure of legend, a man who embodied the old west. He was born to Homer, IL in 1837 and fled to Kansas, becoming a...

Now, I don’t care where you draw the line as to where “up north” begins. That’s not my prerogative. I care about the layout of nature and...