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Angler fishing vertically from a small boat next to a dock on a calm, overcast spring morning

Crappie Not Biting After a Cold Front? Here’s Your Spring Fix Guide

Yesterday they were stacked up and biting. You left the lake happy, maybe even a little smug. Today you’re back […]

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Treeing Cur following a cold squirrel track through heavy early season leaf cover in hardwood timber

Early Leaf Action Can Stall Real Squirrel Work

A young dog tearing through early season timber, hot on every squirrel it flushes, barking treed every few minutes —

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Bluetick Coonhound tracking through dry hardwood leaves along a creek bottom during an evening training hunt

Young Coonhound Skipping Easy Tracks After Hot Drops

You had a young dog doing right. Working tracks clean, finishing, showing you the ability you hoped for. Then something

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Young Mountain Cur squirrel dog working a track alone in hardwood timber

Young Squirrel Dog Stalls when Hunting Alone

You put this dog in the woods with an older dog and it looks like something. Busy, honest, covering ground.

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Black and Tan Coonhound working a cold track alone through hardwood timber during early training

Young Hound Lacks Drive or Just Learning Alone?

One night a young dog is hunting wide, checking cover, working scent like it knows exactly what it is doing.

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Angler fishing for crappie in muddy brown spring water from a small boat, casting near a brush pile along a wooded bank under an overcast sky.

How to Catch Crappie in Muddy Water During Spring

Spring should be one of the best times of year to chase crappie. The water is warming, fish are pushing

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Feist squirrel dog pausing at tree base in thick leaf-covered hardwood timber

Why a Squirrel Dog Quits Tracks in Thick Leaf Cover

A dog can look sharp all winter long. Clean opens, good tree work, solid on the locates. Then the woods

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Young Plott hound working a track alone at night in hardwood timber during solo coonhound training session

Young Coonhound Checking Back? How to Build Independence After Too Much Company

A young coonhound that keeps circling back toward the handler or waiting around for the other dogs to do something

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English Coonhound standing at a tree baying alone on a solo hunt in the dark woods

Why a Coonhound Trees Hard in Company but Not Alone

Some dogs can fool you for a full season. You drop three dogs in the holler, the track gets hot,

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Young Treeing Cur pausing to check in with hunter at edge of oak flat during early squirrel dog training

Build Check-In Without Making a Clinger

A young squirrel dog that checks back now and then is not a problem. A young squirrel dog that hunts

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