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Sep 16, 2024 | 
gameandfishmag.com | Bruce Ingram
Whether you hunt whitetails, bears or turkeys in the fall, talk in hunting camp will inevitably turn to the status of the season's mast crop. Every year around late summer, I receive the hard- and soft-mast reports from the Virginia DWR and the West Virginia DNR. Game biologists with those agencies provide excellent overviews of the mast situation each year. But just like the saying "all politics is local," all mast situations are too.
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May 1, 2024 | 
deerassociation.com | Bruce Ingram
On August 9-12, the next NDA Deer Steward 2 course will be held, this time at the Fraley family farm and at the Preserve at Crooked Run in Botetourt County, Virginia. The approximately 10,000-acre contiguous tract was put together by Jerry Fraley who purchased steep, mountainous land once owned by a timber company. Jerry’s nephew Jon Cooper currently manages the property. And the management plan there certainly could be considered a model one.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
gameandfishmag.com | Bruce Ingram
The Texas, Carolina, wacky and drop-shot rigs remain linchpins for all three major black bass species, But sometimes even these tried-and-true setups fail to fool fish. That's when a few judicious tweaks can mean the difference between a poor day on the water and an epic one. Here's how some of the East's premier bass anglers revise their favorite rigs.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
gameandfishmag.com | Bruce Ingram
Epiphanies, revelations, eureka moments-whatever you choose to call them, those flashes of insight when essential truths of fishing or hunting suddenly become clear are times we sportsmen live for. My eureka moment with stream brook trout came years ago, on a day in which I spooked fish after fish with errant wading and by hurling flies into overhanging vegetation.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
gameandfishmag.com | Bruce Ingram
Print RecipeThe only red meat that my wife Elaine and I eat comes from the deer I kill, and most of the other meat comes from the chickens we raise and the turkeys I harvest in Virginia and West Virginia. As gatherers, we also regularly add wild mushrooms to the venison and fowl dishes my wife prepares, and the East has no shortage of delectable fungi.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
einpresswire.com | Bruce Ingram
Tackle and fly shop outlets typically feature the patterns of well-known fly tyers who have perfected their craft over the course of many decades. But when teenager Cade Bailey first visited Jake's Bait and Tackle in Winchester, marketing manager Jared Mounts was instantly impressed with the teenager as a person and as a fly tyer. "Cade stopped in at our store to buy some material and show us some of his flies, and we were just blown away," Mounts said.
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
gameandfishmag.com | Bruce Ingram
I was hunting turkeys in the Virginia highlands last April, periodically blowing on a crow call, when a gobbler sounded off about 200 yards down the mountain. I quickly moved to the top of a nearby rise, set up against a wide hardwood and sent some yelps down the hollow. The response was instantaneous, and soon it was easy to tell by the ever louder gobbles that the old boy was heading up the mountain. I could tell that the tom was tracking to my left, so I slowly shifted my attention that way.
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Mar 3, 2024 | 
gameandfishmag.com | Bruce Ingram
By far, my favorite time to fish for river smallmouths is the summer. To me, few things are more pleasant than drifting down an upland river during that season. But perhaps the best time to catch large river smallies is the late-winter/early-spring period when the fish concentrate in their winter haunts. The keys to success now are understanding how water temperature affects lure choice, knowing what time of day is best to be on the water and understanding how cloud cover affects bass activity.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
grit.com | Bruce Ingram
Related Articles Updated on Feb 28, 2024•Originally Published on Feb 13, 2024 Tagged with: Bass, Fish, Fishing, freshwater, rivers
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Feb 9, 2024 | 
einpresswire.com | Bruce Ingram
The Bedford County hunter had enjoyed a successful hunt, tagging a nice whitetail. The only problem, though, was that the business that he formerly used to process his deer had ceased operations and another one had so many deer to work up that it couldn't take any more. Just what was the sportsmen to do? Justin Folks, Deer Project Leader for the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (DWR), says this situation, which was reported to him, is indeed a problem on multiple levels.
