Fish Art Contest Casting For Entries

Fish Art Contest Casting For Entries

Students K-12 are invited to enter their original fish illustrations in the 2021 Art of Conservation Fish Art Contest by March 31st. The deadline is fast approaching for the 2021 Art of Conservation Fish Art Contest, supported by Title Sponsor Bass Pro Shops. This...
Lynn Bogue Hunt: The Best That He Could Be

Lynn Bogue Hunt: The Best That He Could Be

Angler, hunter and above all artist, Lynn Bogue Hunt was America’s most popular and prolific outdoor illustrator of the mid-20th century.  Note: This article is an excerpt from Tom Davis’ Lynn Bogue Hunt: Angler, Hunter, Artist.  Flushed by his success at Sports...
Nick Lyons: Giant of Modern Sporting Letters 

Nick Lyons: Giant of Modern Sporting Letters 

Anyone who reads Nick Lyons’ Fire in the Straw will come away enriched, enchanted by a style that is at once pithy and persuasive, and enlightened. I would contend, with plenty of evidence to support my views, that over the course of the last half century there...
Maine’s Junior Duck Stamp Challenge for K-12

Maine’s Junior Duck Stamp Challenge for K-12

Maine Audubon and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are looking for Maine students to submit some creative, innovative, beautiful waterfowl art! For the 27th annual Federal Junior Duck Stamp Program, students will be able to submit an entry of approved waterfowl art...

The Return of the Lion Heart

“Brian Jarvi’s work excites me because he’s young and he commands the same qualities as you see in works by the old masters.” As outdoors people, let us be blunt: It is a troubling, tough and harrowing time to be alive on Planet Earth, but...
A Lifetime of Fly-Fishing Tales

A Lifetime of Fly-Fishing Tales

In The Last Best Day, Michael Altizer shares moments and meditations from a lifetime of fly fishing on streams from the Appalachians to Alaska. For the first several decades of my life, the greening up time of spring meant single-minded obsession with sparkling waters...
The Ultimate Gift for Those Pining for Africa

The Ultimate Gift for Those Pining for Africa

Robert Ruark books from the personal library of his professional hunter, Harry Selby, are the ultimate gift for those pining for Africa. For many who love and live for Africa, the writings of Robert Ruark are the next-best thing to being on safari. In point of fact,...