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Wilderness whitetails

Keith "Catfish" Sutton, Special to ESPN Outdoors.com

Today, more and more deer hunters are looking for ways to get off the roads and trails, back into the marrow of the land away from the trappings of ci...

Story | Conversation | October 29, 2008

Choosing the ultimate deer gun

Keith "Catfish" Sutton, Special to ESPN Outdoors.com

While visiting a friend's deer camp recently, I was amazed at the variety of guns being used by the 15 or so guys who were members of that camp. In fa...

Story | Conversation | October 20, 2008

Family, friends say goodbye to their fishing chum

Keith "Catfish" Sutton, Special to ESPN Outdoors.com

Pete Hodge from Puriton, Great Britain, loved catching fish in Somerset's River Huntspill, and when he learned he had a terminal illness in 2006, he c...

Story | Conversation | October 16, 2008

Patently absurd

Keith "Catfish" Sutton, Special to ESPN Outdoors.com

Inventors have been registering bright ideas with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office since 1790. While some inventions like the flush toilet, person...

Story | Conversation | October 10, 2008

Passport to private lands hunting

Keith "Catfish" Sutton, Special to ESPN Outdoors.com

Thirty years ago, I rarely encountered problems when I wanted to hunt on private land. I was taught early in my hunting career that it was proper etiq...

Story | Conversation | October 10, 2008

Siamese twins: double the fun

Keith "Catfish" Sutton, Special to ESPN Outdoors.com

From an aquarium in Bangkok, Thailand, comes this photo of a most unusual creature, or creatures — Siamese-twin tilapia. The two fish are joined...

Story | Conversation | October 10, 2008

NSSF president's op-ed strikes a green chord

Keith "Catfish" Sutton, Special to ESPN Outdoors.com

On Monday, Sept. 15, an op-ed piece appeared in the Washington Post with the byline of Steve Sanetti, president of the National Shooting Sports Founda...

Story | Conversation | September 29, 2008

Squirrels make a great wild-game dinner

Keith "Catfish" Sutton, Special to ESPN Outdoors.com

"Squirrel and dumplings" rank high on my list of all-time-favorite wild game dinners. My mother and grandmother often prepared this delicious, filling...

Story | Conversation | September 29, 2008

Remember National Hunting & Fishing Day

Keith "Catfish" Sutton, Special to ESPN Outdoors.com

One of the great annual traditions in the outdoors, National Hunting and Fishing Day, is set for this Saturday, Sept. 27, 2008. For the past 37 years...

Story | Conversation | September 23, 2008

Break bad habits, bag more doves

Keith "Catfish" Sutton, Special to ESPN Outdoors.com

When I was editor of Arkansas Wildlife, the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission's conservation magazine, I spent time one fall going through back issues a...

Story | Conversation | September 12, 2008

Opening-day doves: Part II

Keith "Catfish" Sutton, Special to ESPN Outdoors.com

Of the various ways to hunt mourning doves, I think shooting as they come to water offers the fastest action. Last September while hunting a small far...

Story | Conversation | September 02, 2008

Scout now for opening-day doves: Part I

Keith "Catfish" Sutton, Special to ESPN Outdoors.com

Before dove season opens, it pays to scout your hunting area, looking for heavily-used flyways doves travel when moving from one activity area to anot...

Story | Conversation | September 02, 2008

10 reasons I love dove hunting

Keith "Catfish" Sutton, Special to ESPN Outdoors.com

Mourning dove season is here, and because I love this form of hunting more than any, this week is Dove Hunting Week on Catfish Gumbo. "Behind you! Lo...

Story | Conversation | August 26, 2008

The fish that eats salad

Keith "Catfish" Sutton, Special to ESPN Outdoors.com

Mr. Roy Graves emailed me this week and said: "I'm interested in carp fishing. I live on a lake in central Arkansas in which I have caught two grass c...

Story | Conversation | August 14, 2008

Three patterns for summer catfish

Keith "Catfish" Sutton, Special to ESPN Outdoors.com

To target catfish successfully, especially trophy-size cats, anglers must acquire an in-depth understanding of the primary feeding patterns specific t...

Story | Conversation | August 08, 2008