Dave Maas Articles

The month of May can be dynamite when it comes to catching numbers of largemouth bass, and some big ones, too, provided you’re throwing the right baits — in the right places.

The Redcrest Championship showcases 35 of the top bass anglers in the world, and this year Jacob Wheeler won it for the first time. Here are the top five baits he used to run away with the title.

When it comes to understanding and appreciating “degree of difficulty” as it relates to bowhunting, Fred Eichler is near the top of the list.

Leaving a hang-on stand in a tree year after year is a recipe for disaster, especially if you don’t regularly loosen its securing strap or chain.

With a shotgun, killing a stationary wild turkey is a no-brainer, right? Well . . .

Beginning deer hunters — and some experienced ones — aim too far back on a quartering-toward whitetail. Here’s how to avoid that critical mistake.

Early spring largemouth bass head shallow to feed well before the spawn. Here are Edwin Evers’ top three baits to catch them.

This video will likely change the way that you wax your bowstring. The vast majority of archers — even the most experienced ones — do it wrong and have been for decades.

Need inspiration to pursue turkeys with a bow this spring? Then check out this video of Chris Bee hammering a late-March turkey in Nebraska.

Much of what you find on YouTube and in hunting magazines/websites is decent info, but it misses the mark on what truly helps you kill more wild turkeys.

According to well-known hunter Bill Winke, some whitetails are easier to kill than others because they’ve built up a tolerance for daily human activity.

Not sure how to get started sighting in a compound bow? This method is easy to understand and delivers outstanding results.

It’s one thing to win a bass fishing tournament; it’s another to win at life.

You’ve roosted a tom and slipped in to 100 yards of his tree under the cover of darkness. But now what?

When it comes to telling compelling hunting stories, few do it as well as the guys from Gritty Films — and this one might be their best yet.

Michael Waddell couldn’t help himself and says it’s time to draw the line. Here he offers his strong opinion on a hunting topic that’s driving him crazy!

Have you ever wondered what steps a taxidermist takes to complete a head-and-shoulder whitetail deer mount? Check out this outstanding video from Ashley Eve.

As hunters and anglers drive to their favorite honey-holes, they often listen to music, and the vast majority choose country. So it’s not surprising that songwriters speak to the outdoors in their lyrics.

Legendary bowhunter Fred Bear is on a horseback hunt in the Yukon, where he’s able to arrow a Rocky Mountain goat and a grizzly!

Wild turkeys sometimes behave in unpredictable ways, as proof in this funny 40-second video.

This isn’t an AI video, and yet you still won’t believe your eyes.

Many archers spend time practicing at ranges much longer than they’d attempt on a live animal. Here, Levi Morgan asks viewers to guess the range on a shot he describes as “exceptionally long.”

The author has planted Evolved food plot seed in western Wisconsin for two consecutive years. Growing conditions were less than ideal in 2024, and it was a repeat in 2025. Thankfully, the results were better than expected.

Do you think these scarecrows will prevent deer from eating in a garden?

Whitetails are built to survive harsh winters; here’s how they do it.

This is another one of those videos that falls into the “you can’t make this up” category.

Developed by G5 Outdoors in collaboration with well-known bowhunter Chris Bee, the new Dirty Bird Turkey Broadhead enables bowhunters to aim for a turkey’s head/neck for instant kills.

Late-winter is the perfect time for building, maintaining and improving whitetail bedding areas, and on some properties a technique called “hinge-cutting” works well.

During fall 2025, the author and his hunting partners field tested five annual seed blends from Mossy Oak BioLogic on three of their western Wisconsin food plots.