Dave Maas Articles

Summer is the perfect time to throw a hollow-bodied frog over thick cover for largemouth bass, but many anglers have trouble hooking fish. Here’s how to increase your hookup percentage when fishing frogs.

The first of its kind, Prime’s 2025 flagship bow — the Form — is a hybrid created using unique engineering principles to connect carbon and aluminum at key points of the riser.

The goal with catch-and-release is allowing that fish to grow, reproduce and hopefully be caught again. With proper fish-handling techniques, you give the fish the best chance of survival.

Bass anglers can choose from many stickbait brands, but in the author’s opinion, the top choice is the YUM Dinger.

Magnet Outdoors enters the food plot arena as a new company, but its leadership team goes back to the very beginning of the industry.

If you were to cut a ribeye steak any way you wish, then grill it to medium-rare, which thickness is best?

If you plan to release a fish, then it makes sense to do everything you can to ensure it will swim away in the best possible condition.

A giant musky following closely behind a topwater lure is thrilling — and tremendously frustrating if it doesn’t strike.

The EHD-fense Water Treatment Kit has just been announced, and aquatic biologists say it will protect deer from EHD.

You’ll be amazed by this young child’s skill with a spinning rod and reel.

A super slow-motion camera captures what happens when the guys from Gun Talk Media attempt to fire a bullet into the barrel of another gun. You have to see it to believe it!

You probably knew that some hunters have trained their dogs to find whitetail sheds, but did you know that some dogs specialize in finding moose sheds?

T-Bone (of Bone Collector fame) demonstrates the correct way to use an index-style release.

Hunting black bears can be intense, especially when you’re on the ground and multiple bears are circling your pop-up blind!

This Florida wild turkey has a beard so long it brushes the ground as the bird struts/runs to a gobbler decoy.

More than one bowhunter has been surprised to find a backyard 3-D archery target knocked down and even in pieces, and the guess is it was attacked by a live buck. Here’s proof that it can happen.

Catfish are delicious — provided you do one special step during the cleaning process.

When it comes to breaking fishing rods, anglers should understand that 99 percent of the time it’s their fault. If you have a history with breaking rods, then watch this video before you break another one!

Musician Post Malone took the time to visit Humphries Archery in Salt Lake City, Utah, to expand his gear and increase his shooting skill.

A hunter places a remote camera in her turkey decoys and captures crazy-cool footage of a big tom attacking her jake decoy.

When a tom is gobbling sporadically, it’s time to silently — no hen talk! — slip into his “bubble.”

The first place check for this bass tournament is $150,000; second place, $45,000. And these two Major League Fishing competitors battle it out for big bass — and big money! — as the final seconds tick away.

The 2024 Mathews Lift was one of the company's all-time best sellers. So how does the 2025 Lift X measure up?

Shooting two gobbers with a compound or crossbow in one sit is a big accomplishment; doing it with a recurve and with two shots only 17 seconds apart is crazy-rare.

Do you think this bowhunter did a decent paint job on his Mathews Phase4, or is it — in the words of an archery shop owner — “hot garbage?”

A Yukon moose hunt is on the bucket list for many big game hunters, and in this video a father and son share the adventure, one with a bow and one with a rifle.

Ever wonder what your turkey hunting loads look like in flight? Here’s your answer!

Thanks to a land manager’s quick thinking and sharp saw, a trophy Texas buck escapes a certain and slow death by coyotes.

To what lengths will some anglers go to catch walleyes? Check out the crazy lineup of parked trucks with boat trailers by the Rainy River near the Minnesota/Ontario border.