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Contents: Undercover Secrets (Learning how Bass see – using bounced images and bending light to hunt their prey – can become your key to hauling bucketmouths out of heavy cover), Curing The Summertime Blues (The Jaques Cousteau of Illinois fishing guides is anything but all wet when it comes to solving the mystery of hot-weather Bluegill fishing), The Guns Of ’98 (OL‘s shooting editor offers a rundown of this year’s new firearms, then selects his personal favorite…and it can be yours for only $249), Tackle Savvy (How to buy a rod and reel without getting soaked. Our fishing editor picks 1998’s best combinations for baitcasting, spinning and flyfishing), Look Who’s Stalking (Annie’s got her gun…and so have nearly 3 million of her sisters. The hunting industry is just now addressing the importance of women hunters, the fastest-growing segment of the sport), Centennial Special – 1948-1957: Optimism Unbound A Decade Of Development (Science Comes to Sportsmen * Ex-Hunter Sets Off Letter-Writing Explosion * Ben East * Lee Wulff * O’Connor Goes International * Red Smith * Fred Bear * Joe Brooks on the Flats * First Partition Bullets * World-Record Goat, Moose, Sheep and Laker * Justice William O. Douglas) Compass – Dark Days For The Gunnison (Colorado Trout fishermen and waterfowlers scramble to save two rivers from a proposed hydroelectric plan that would cause massive habitat destruction), The Next Generation (Spare Not The (Fishing) Rod), A Hunter’s Crossword Sporting Gear – Cheap Fix (GPS for under $200) Departments – Editor’s Journal, What’s On Your Mind, Fishing (Blue-Water Panfish), Hunting (Ethics and Competition Afield), Bass (Bass After Bedtime), Hunting Dogs (Pre-Training Your Puppy), This Happened To Me, Gamefile (Flathead Catfish), Private Lessons (Circle Hooks: What Goes Around…, Spring Morel Madness, Opening Day in the Kitchen), Classifieds (Sportsman’s Marketplace; Where To Go), Last Laugh Reader Trophies – Deer Of The Year ’97 (From hundreds of impressive entries, here are the Deer – and the stories – we chose as tops from last season. Whether a state record or a child’s first Deer, each of these bucks is a trophy), Regional News
Issue: May 1998
Condition: Very Good