Tom Keer

Pending certification, a California fisherman’s 4-pound, 5.44-ounce black crappie will become the new state record. If certified, the slab will break the previous record of 4 pounds, 1 ounce that has stood for 46 years. Read Next: The 15 Biggest Crappies of All Time Dave Burruss, the owner of Clear Lake Outdoors in Lakeport, California, was fishing on Feb. 17, 2021. Conditions were partly cloudy and 58 degrees.

While swimming in a remote Western Massachusetts pond, a 73-year old man was attacked—and nearly killed—by a presumably rabid beaver. For over half a century, Mark “Pres” Pieraccini has ridden his bicycle to a secluded pond. He swims to an inshore island, meditates, and heads back to shore. On September 6, his return trip was anything but calm. According to the Daily Hampshire Gazette , Pieraccini said, “(The beaver) started on my leg. I never saw him. I thought it was some weird mutant lake trout.

I love gun dogs, which means I wouldn’t walk a pheasant or quail field or sit in a blind without one. Dogs make every hunt. On some days they cast perfectly and handle every bird with ease. On others they plow through thick vegetation and crank out one blind retrieve after another. Those epic hunts make up for the times when they come unhinged and we cuss with the eloquence of a dockworker. But Momma didn’t raise no quitter, so we get them back on track.