BY Chris Erwin The BB Worm, I’m sure some of you don’t know what that is. However. It’s been around a long time. The last time I wrote about it was eleven years ago when I was writing for Midwest Outdoors Magazine. This bait was developed for fishing during the hottest period of the summer.…
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Find the Thermocline for Productive Late Summer Bass Fishing
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BY Lee McClellan The constant heavy rain systems that plagued Kentucky all spring and early summer finally abated over the past few weeks. For the first time in two years, the brown, withered grass of late summer is a common sight in Kentucky. Usually, cracked ground and crunchy grass signal potential drought and bring angst.…
My First Swarm of Honey Bees in the Box
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By Chris Erwin If you follow this column, you know I have been learning the art of Beekeeping. I got interested after doing an article on Mike Crawford. Crawford served 22 years as a police officer before retiring. Along with working at Bare Arms, an indoor shooting range and gun club, he is also the…
Rod Repair 101
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By Chris Erwin I think I can safely say almost every fisherman at one time or another has lost an eye or broken an eye on one of his or her fishing rods. In this short column I’m not going to try to teach you how to build your own fishing rod. However, I have…
The Heat is on! The Summer Milk Run
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By Chris Erwin As we head into the hottest part of the summer, many anglers will lay down their rods and wait for cooler temperatures. However, for those brave people, trying to keep hope alive let me just say hope does exist. At least for the bass, crappie, white bass, blue gill, once the water…
The Rule of Seven
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BY Chris Erwin [dc]I[/dc]n fishing there are a lot of unwritten rules. The 50 degrees rule is something I talk about all the time. When we see water temperatures either fall or rise near that figure in early spring or late fall, we believe bass are active. In today’s world of high technology, it is…
Monofilaments, Fluorocarbons or Braids
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BY Chris Erwin We are starting February, what many would say is the last real cold month heading into the 2016 fishing season. This is a good time to get your gear ready for another year. In doing so, one of the first things you will want to do is re-spool your reels. Anglers, from…
Night Fishing- Two Ways to Put Fish in the Boat
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By Chris Erwin Now that summer is here and the nights are in the 60s, it’s a great time to move your fishing to nighttime. I can tell you that over the years, I have found night fishing to be the best from dark to about midnight and then from about 4 a.m. until after…
Find the “Thermocline” for better summer fishing success
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BY Lee McClellan Fishing instruction for decades preached anglers should fish deep, cool water during the hottest days of the summer. This makes sense as fish are cold-blooded animals and their bodies are the same temperature of the water that surrounds them. However, fishing deep water in summer on a lake such as Taylorsville Lake…
Off the Grid Basics
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It could change how you camp forever! By Chris Erwin When most people talk about off–the-grid living, they usually talk about a cabin in the deep woods with solar panels as the only option to living with power. However, much has changed in the world of solar, winds and other more passive forms of producing…
