Tips and Tricks Articles

Jeremy Smith shows a smart rubber-band rigging method that keeps expensive sucker minnows lively longer and helps you fish fall muskies more effectively.

Use a fast-moving topwater lure and a simple hookset tip to catch more largemouth bass during September's transition from summer to fall.

Watch how a simple set of catch-and-release tools can make landing and unhooking big northern pike and muskies much safer and easier.

Yes, a doe will grunt, and a buck sometimes bleats. Based on that knowledge, here’s how to take your deer calling to the next level.

Learn how to create shot opportunities on the buck you''ve always wanted.

In recent years, trappers in the northern Rockies and Great Lakes Region have been given the opportunity to trap the gray wolf. We get some pro pointers from a veteran Canadian wolf trapper.

Simply walking into the hills and blowing on a predator call is a recipe for failure. Here are nine basics for success that can be employed at any time, on any predator.

Deer hunters: Don't let your stomach guide your mind. Here, we tell you what snacks NOT to take on the treestand, while uncovering hidden downsides of each.

Yes, there is a way to interpret those numbers on the bags of fertilizer. Here are a few fertilizer tips for deer hunting food plots. Get the right formula and maximize growth.

These 10 mountain lion hunting tips offer some insight into the "why" and "how" behind the recent mountain lion attack on two cyclists in Washington State.

Most bowhunters prefer to ambush wild turkeys from a pop-up ground blind, and while this method is certainly deadly, sometimes high winds make it impossible.

Turkey hunting is an affliction, a malady that for some continues long after frosty pre-dawn mornings welcome the season that closes weeks later.

To get the drop on mature whitetails, give ‘em a Garth Brooks: “Sometimes You’ve Got To Go Against the Grain.”

Grand View Outdoors has pulled together hunting strategies, shooting tips and gear advice from a panel of experts that'll help you be more successful when the weather’s warm, the bugs are biting and the deer still don’t know what’s coming.

A first-time turkey hunter learns some important lessons the hard way.

Bowhunting whitetailed deer in remote canoe country should be on every serious bowhunter’s list. Here are some tips to make the most of this unique hunt.

Deer hunters suffer from information overload these days — but it’s time to un-learn some of that info and break out of old habits.

SLICK TRICK is deeply grieved to announce the passing of Gary Cooper the designer and owner of SLICK TRICK broadheads

Cow elk decoys, treestands and all-night bugling are some of the more offbeat ways of taking an elk when orthodox methods just won’t score.

Cow elk decoys, treestands and all-night bugling are some of the more offbeat ways of taking an elk when orthodox methods just won’t score.

Cow elk decoys, treestands and all-night bugling are some of the more offbeat ways of taking an elk when orthodox methods just won’t score.

Identifying oak species is step one. Now, which ones do deer prefer and how do you hunt them?

It’s no secret that whitetails love acorns. Here’s how to use them to your best advantage this season.

Where to aim your binoculars for big bucks when they remain bedded during daylight hours—or simply “have disappeared.”

Location, scents, dirt, and a licking branch spike curiosity to stopbucks right where you want them.

A mindset for working with those few factors within your control.

Here’s an easy way to find and call predator-rich country that has never been hunted.

I use a bipod style of shooting stick, but I have given it a makeover that increased its effectiveness in the field. Any hunter can make these modifications to any shooting stick, homemade or commercial.

Losing gear in the darkness is something that happens to all of us, unless you know the trick.

Your rifle needs a little maintenance to keep it shooting straight from season to season. Take our 9 tips for getting yours in shape for opening day.