by Outdoors International

Herb and Wine Baked Salmon Steaks

Ingredients:
-680g pack frozen salmon steaks, defrosted
-2 x 15ml spoons oil
-30g fish herb selection pack
-125ml dry white wine

Method:
Place each salmon steak on a separate piece of foil brushed with oil.

Divide the herb pack evenly between the four steaks then sprinkle over 2 large spoons of wine and wrap up to form a parcel.

Cook the salmon as per pack instructions (or at 180C for approx 30 minutes).

Remove herbs and serve immediately with new potatoes and green beans.

by Cory Glauner

Pre season scouting can pay big dividends for doves

Water Holes
Early and late in the day, I make sure that I am sitting at a water hole. One key thing to remember is that doves decoy just like waterfowl do, and full body style dove decoys seem to work the best…. use a lot of them. Once your decoys are out it’s as simple as wearing camouflage and waiting. If you’ve done your homework and you’re sitting a waterhole that the doves are using the doves will come. *By the way, early in the season I prefer to shoot trap/skeet load.

Tree & Field Edges
If you can find a field edge with some trees that the doves are using as a roost, you’ve hit jackpot! I’ve had situations here in Idaho when I’ve had my limit within minutes. A good roost on the edge of a field is one of my favorite places to dove hunt. As with most hunting, scouting can pay huge dividends once you start actually hunting.

That’s pretty much it. Doves are fairly simple and straight forward to hunt, but they are one of the most challenging birds to shoot. They fly erratically and they are fast. They can embarrass the best of shooters. After a few days of dove hunting, shooting for other game birds will seem easy. They’re a great way to start the season.

We have good dove hunting here in the states, but if you really want to experience some incredible dove hunting you need to plan a trip to Mexico or Argentina. The dove hunting at either of these places will blow your mind!

by Outdoors International

You can’t kill what you can’t see. Period. It’s not going to happen. Let’s take a look at my personal battery of Big Game Hunting optics and tripods and why I choose them.

You must be able to efficiently locate game game at long distances if you plan on being a successful big game hunter in the wide open spaces of the American West.

My personal choice in binoculars is Swarovski.

The 8 power binoculars allow me to hand hold them steadier than 10′s or 12′s yet still offer me a great field of view. My 8′s are my first step in my glassing and are used to initially sweep and look over an area I intend to glass before setting up the big optics to really dissect my glassing area. I never hike up to a glassing location and sit down before thoroughly covering the area with the 8′s first.

For my tripod mounted pair I rely on the Swarovski 15×56 SLC binoculars.

Zeiss is my number one choice when it comes to spotting scopes.

My spotting scope only comes out as my third step after I have spotted something that is a bit out of reach of my binoculars and needs a closer look. I also rely on my spotting scope to make careful and detailed evaluations of trophy game. My Zeiss spotting scope really allows me to see trophy detail up close and allows you to field judge game at long distances without any fear of getting too close and spooking anything. The farther you can stay away from game when scouting, the better.

As you read this, the first of perhaps 10 million waterfowl that
winter in Louisiana’s coastal wetlands are flying south. Each year,
fewer acres of marsh and barrier-island habitat await them. This
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Trouble in the Gulf Part 3: Regaining Paradise

It’s almost time to start bear hunting here in Idaho. We can bait here so I always set a few up even though I prefer to spot and stalk with my bow. Here’s a little run down of our bait/trail camera experience a few years ago.

In the spring of 2007, we purchased trail cameras for our bear baits. We were surprised not only with the number of bears he had, but also with the color phases and the quality of the bears. After the season was over, we compiled the pictures and did a conservative count of the individual bears (some bears hit the bait over and over again even on the same day, so we tried not to count those bears more than once). Here are the numbers that we came up with:

We had at least 37 different bears hitting the six baits that had trail cameras on them and 81% of those bears were color phase!.

• 56% Chocolate
• 19% Black *Most of our black bears have chocolate around their shoulders. We have very few coal-black bears.
• 14% Blonde
• 11% Red and Cinnamon

Here are a few of the pictures we got that season:

by Cory Glauner

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) _ Ten people will pay between $4,151 and
$8,600 to bag a moose in New Hampshire or Vermont next fall.

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Moose permit auctions raise $61K in NH, Vt.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) _ A first-ever hunting season within
Custer State Park is proposed as part of the 2011 hunting season on
mountain lions in the Black Hills.

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Lion hunting proposed in Custer State Park

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) – Three state records for eastern Nebraska
fishermen have been certified.

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3 Nebraska anglers have records certified

PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. (AP) – A federal fishing ban was lifted
Tuesday in more than 5,000 square miles in the Gulf of Mexico along
the Florida Panhandle, giving hope to a region largely dependent on

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Feds reopen fishing in Gulf off Florida Panhandle

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) – Sioux Falls leaders are considering
allowing bow hunters to help thin deer that are causing problems in
the northeast part of the city.

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Bow hunters might help with Sioux Falls deer