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Camping Articles - Learn How to Camp
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Entries for the 'Tales from the Woods' Category
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Lake Herring Fishing on the Knife River
By Karl Seckinger :: 1155 Views ::
1 Comments ::  :: Fishing - General, Tales from the Woods
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Knife River is a small community on the north shore of Lake Superior on the Minnesota side, between Duluth and Two Harbors. Many years ago this was a busy harbor for lake trout fisherman. Now there are only remnant families that still ply the commercial trade but are only allowed to net herring...
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Get It Before It's Gone - Your time for adventure is now
By Karl Seckinger :: 1028 Views ::
1 Comments :: :: Tales from the Woods
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You know the kind of outdoors person. They always get there buck. They limit on geese or never come back without fifty pounds of fresh harvested wild rice. You borrow the knife and its razor sharp. They look like they just stepped out of a hunting catalog, no matter the time of day. Even there sandwiches are better...
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Into the Night
By Karl Seckinger :: 844 Views ::
1 Comments :: :: Tales from the Woods
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I step outside and the darkness is everything. I stand still to let my eyes adjust. Chips of starlight appear in the night sky. Underfoot is Snow and glows white, anything above ground level appears black. If I focus directly on anything the shapes melt. So I just scan the yard. Stars and snow illuminate bit by bit...
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Reflections - Boundry Waters Canoe Area
By Karl Seckinger :: 1575 Views ::
1 Comments :: :: Camping 101, Tales from the Woods
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I’m lying in the sunshine on a very large rock. This piece of ancient igneous is located on the North Shore of Pine Lake in northeastern Minnesota. I did not kill myself getting here. No arduous portages. Mosquitoes? Non-existent. Paddling easily at two miles per hour with a nicely loaded canoe made for a leisurely pace...
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Fishing Echos | All you have to do is listen
By Karl Seckinger :: 1100 Views ::
1 Comments ::  :: Learn How to Fish, Tales from the Woods
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Now I let go with the word fishing, and not in a canyon. No echo. But the sound waves go forth. To my ears, it is first and foremost brook trout fishing in small streams. Its how I acquired my nickname. The first feeling that wells up in others could be a daredevil tossed for pike, the next, hand lining for lake trout, or jig and minnow for walleyes...
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Connecting with Nature - Tasting the Time
By Karl Seckinger :: 1321 Views ::
0 Comments :: :: Tales from the Woods
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Now right there after filleting our pike, I can take a zip lock bag and sprinkle the enclosed fillets lightly with lemon juice and squeeze out all the air. By duct taping this bag to an anchor line and submerging to a depth of thirty feet, I am marinating under pressure those fillets in a pelagic refrigerator...
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Fur Trapping - Let's say it's 1823
By Karl Seckinger :: 1652 Views ::
0 Comments :: :: Tales from the Woods
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So lets say its 1823 and you’re strolling into Oneida county, New York, and you have this brain child of an idea. You were hatching this plan while walking for days. The first blacksmith or forge you come to is getting a visit. The wood shingle outside sez, Lars' forge. So you go up to the big timber framed door and you can hear all the clanking and pounding but you yell...
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