Hunting and fishing is a pastime that I enjoy immensely. However, I do not always have time for them. As I get older, I would like to see more of this great country that we live in. So I was thinking, why not combine my travels and my love of hunting and fishing. All I need is the right information to get me going.
Are you in the same boat that I am in? Well, here is a great place to start.
Trout Fishing 101: Trout Fishing Tips For Any Angler
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Behind bass, panfish, and catfish, trout fishing are the 4th most popular fishing in North America. Trout always put up a good fight, are abundant from sea to shining sea, and are pretty tasty when anglers decide to keep them. Natives to most cold water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean, the West Coast is one of the best places to find trout of any size, species, or color.
There are 3 main species of trout anglers chase, and they all have somewhat similar characteristics. The Rainbow, Brook, and Brown Trout are the most common variations. There is also the wildcard steelhead, which is classified as a rainbow trout that spends time in the ocean or Great Lakes before returning to freshwater or smaller tributaries to spawn. In doing so these rainbows gain a silvery tint to them, hence their name. This habit, most commonly seen in salmon, breeds a size and toughness in the normally smaller bows which makes them living legends among trout anglers.
Where To Find Trout
Trout are most often found in cold water, and often live in moving water as they run up and down rivers and creeks. They do also live in lakes (hence the term for another species, The Lake Trout), and they are of course among one of the more commonly stocked game species, where they can be dropped in streams, ponds, and anywhere in between.
As trout are one of the more accessible food sources for wildlife, you can likely find them in the woods where you’d also find bears, bobcats, and other fishing wildlife. The more remote the river or lake, the more likely you are to find some trout swimming through their waters. This makes trout fishing some of the more active gamefishing any angler can do, where it almost crosses a line into hunting or tracking.
Trout are also abundant deep in some of the great lakes, where they can grow to massive size and put up fights usually reserved for the ocean. These trout can be found feeding on smaller fish in the depths of the lake, or more commonly during the salmon spawn, raiding their beds.
Hunting:
Not a fisherman, maybe hunting is more your game. This country is loaded with wild turkeys, You could catch your own and have it for Thanksgiving. Start here for your turkey hunting essentials.
Turkey hunting is a sport involving the pursuit of the elusive wild turkey. Long before the European settlers arrived in North America, the Native Americans took part in hunting wild turkeys.[1]
Female (hen) turkey
History
By the early 1900s, the turkey population had been decimated in North America because of habitat destruction, commercial hunting, and lack of wildlife regulations. Hunters, wildlife agencies and conservation organizations intervened and turkey populations rebounded dramatically. More than 7 million wild turkeys now roam North America, with populations in every U.S. state but Alaska. Wild turkeys are also hunted in parts of Mexico and Canada.[2]
Species and subspecies
There are two species of turkey pursued as game animals in North America, the wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) and the ocellated turkey (Meleagris ocellata). The wild turkey is further divided into six subspecies. To harvest a bird from the Eastern, Osceola, Rio Grande, and Merriam’s wild turkey subspecies is known in turkey hunting circles as a “grand slam”.[3] Harvesting a bird from all the subspecies in the “grand slam” as well as the Gould’s wild turkey subspecies and the ocellated turkey is known as a “world slam”.[4]
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I am sure there are a lot of you out there who love hunting and fishing. check back soon for more helpful tools to enhance you hunting and fishing experience.
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Ref 1: https://mysterytacklebox.com/blog/trout-fishing-101-trout-fishing-tips-angler/
ref 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_hunting
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