Island Point Lodge offers anglers the chance to maximize their skills and talents while minimizing price. Limits are generous, and you can fish from dawn to dark, a long time in Alaska summer.
Wildlife Watching Wednesday: White-Crowned Sparrows Are Migrating Visitors
Sparrows tend to be hard for most casual birders to identify. Many of them just look like small, unremarkable brown birds. There are a few exceptions, though, and the white-crowned sparrow is one of them.
Alaskan King Quest: Landing a Chinook Salmon
Catching an Alaskan king salmon is like landing a tarpon you can eat. Most of Alaska allows non-residents to catch one or two kings in a season, but the Blind Slough fishery near Petersburg allows four per day. Here’s where and how to conquer the king with stick, fly, and string.
The Thrill of Daytime Swordfishing
The art of daytime swordfishing, is a relatively new phenomenon considering how long man has been chasing the denizens of the deep.
Wildlife Watching Wednesday: Barred Owls - Silent Hunters
he barred owl is one of the silent night hunters of the Midwest and eastern United States. They are expanding their range out west, too. Their specialized feathers allow them to fly in almost complete silence, remaining undetected by their prey until it is too late.
Scoring Big Bucks: Tahara Bish's Monster Buck
Tahara Bish is a seventeen-year-old from Knox, Pennsylvania. When she was eleven, Tahara started hunting with her father, Pat Bish, because she wanted to hang out with him and make fond memories. She never really took hunting seriously until she met Wyatt Smith in 2019.
Wildlife Watching Wednesday: American Toads in the Garden
The American toad lives throughout most of the eastern and northeastern United States. In fact, they are the most widespread toad species in all of North America. This common amphibian is a frequent visitor to flower gardens, vegetable gardens, and other moist areas where insects abound.
Top Five Must-Do Florida Paddle Fishing Trips
Picking only five paddle fishing trips to take in Florida? Ha! You’ll find hundreds, no, thousands, of such trips to take here. However, if we had to pick five, these would not be a bad start.
Wildlife Watching Wednesday: The Brilliantly-Colored Oriole
Baltimore orioles are one of the most beautiful birds that visit the central and eastern United States. Their bright orange feathers really stand out against the dark green leaves of the shrubs and trees where they feed, making them easy to see for anyone watching.
Wildlife Watching Wednesday: Beautiful Pipevine Swallowtail Butterflies
Most people agree that the vast majority of butterfly species in North America are beautiful to look at, but one of my favorites is the very attractive Pipevine Swallowtail. They are jet black overall, and the hind wings of the males are marked with a spectacular blue iridescence.
Wildlife Watching Wednesday: Cowbird Brood Parasitism
Brown-headed cowbirds are unusual birds. They are just one of many species of native blackbirds, and as the name says, even though the body feathers of the male birds are black, they have a noticeably brown head.
Wildlife Watching Wednesday: Tiny Gray Tree Frogs
Gray Tree Frogs are very small creatures, typically measuring 1.5 to 2 inches long. Believe it or not, these tiny amphibians are equipped with two amazing “super powers”. One of those remarkable powers is their climbing ability.