One Great Writer…
All the information, photos, media releases, news, fishing and hunting reports, upcoming events, etc. that we can bring you with On Wisconsin Outdoors is important to help you stay up on what’s happening out there. But when it comes right down to the real foundation of publishing an outdoor paper and cranking out website information, it is imperative first and foremost to have quality outdoor writers. We are fortunate to have many, along with many professional guides from throughout Badgerland. Even though my dog writes better than some of these guides, they do really know what they are doing out there in Wisconsin’s Big Outside.
Now before you’re too hard on me, this is a typical comment when I plan a trip with these guide/friends who have served as my sources of expertise for 20 years: “Do you have to come now? We’re on a great bite and we both know you’re going to shut it off.”
But, they tolerate my lack of fishing expertise and let me come and I in turn waste hours fixing their stories.
The audience appreciates quality writing that in part allows the reader to live vicariously through the story. If you’re stuck in an office, a well written story will still let you escape and take you right out to that blind or stand or stream…until you can actually load the truck and go for real. Re-acquaint yourself now with Darrell Pendergrass. We just posted nine stories from Darrell throughout this website that he sent over upon request as a way to get him going again with OWO.
Enjoy the writings of Darrell Pendergrass as he journeys into Wisconsin’s outdoors, often with his son, Jack.
Now I are a riter two, but Darrell is a gooder one…argublee… and one I turn to in escape myself when I can’t bust loose from the computer and this office. He takes me to the wild places. I’m really not sure that Darrell will appreciate my endorsement, but I have known him and read him for decades. When I was a syndicated outdoor columnist, he was the editor for the Washburn paper that carried my weekly scribbling. Now he’s the librarian in Washburn on Lake Superior, and despite our professional reservations as an outdoor publication to associate ourselves with a librarian, we will maintain the relationship as long as he doesn’t start wearing a dress, or make us whisper, or hit us on the head with a ruler like Sister Mary Rupert did at St. Luke’s in the sixties.
Darrell is a very fine writer. Enjoy his journeys into the field, most often with his son, Jack. We will try to keep Darrell writing in the future, around his whispering and book shelf straightening. But seriously, we do not endorse what Darrell writes about on our Waterfowl pages regarding the youth duck hunt. Darrell takes on cold water to swim and retrieve a duck… in his underwear no less. (We’re checking into whether it was Victoria’s Secret, which will immediately sever this relationship) Don’t adopt that retrieving practice. Get a dog. Get a boat. Stay alive.
One Great Boot…
Pro Line Manufacturing Company, OWO’s longest-running advertiser with their much appreciated back-cover placement for more than six years, has announced an agreement to produce and distribute a new line of footwear under the Girls with Guns brand. According to Bob Hollenberg, VP of Pro Line, "We are developing the footwear based on the Girls with Guns philosophy of Fashion meets Function".
Pro Line has developed premium quality hunting boots under the Girls with Guns brand that live up to the quality people expect in the Girls with Guns products. The boots are waterproof, insulated and feature Mossy Oak camo patterns. Hollenberg points out "Pro Line only uses the best materials available. We are very excited to produce the first of many styles for Girls with Guns." Get the whole story here.
Pro Line’s ongoing support is a primary reason that you are able to pick up every issue of On Wisconsin Outdoors at no cost. We appreciate them, and we appreciate too if you give Pro Line a good look when you need to stay warm and dry in the fields and waters of Wisconsin (or wherever you’re reading this). I can tell you personally, that you will appreciate Pro Line boots and waders. I have chest waders, light weight boots for the early fall deer and upland game woods, and more heavy duty boots that lets me tough out a day on stand in the snow.
Thanks Pro Line.
Jason Pacey persevered against some problems to tag this 250 pound bear in Iron County hunting with his brother Eric.
Read more bear stories on our 'Bear Hunting' pages. Jason Pacey writes of the trials and tribulations encountered with his brother Eric on the way to eventual jubilation with a 250 pound bear tagged. The only woman hunter in the Mike Foss bear camp fills her tag, and hounds are killed by wolves in Sawyer, Bayfield and Polk County. You’ll get the entire stories.
Take a journey through our 'Outdoor News' pages, and I bet you will return week after week. We post numerous items weekly covering numerous topics sent from numerous sources every week. It’s a good place to find outdoor information. Connect with 'Inland Fishing', and here is a sample of what you’ll get: Guide reports from Lake Geneva and Delavan Lake, Price County, Ashland, Wausau, Richland Center, Price County, DNR Lake Michigan news and another chapter from the humor book, Predicaments by Randy Williams. And as you would expect with autumn in the air, we are heating up again under our hunting pages. Send your photos and stories to ellis@onwisconsinoutdoors.com and we will post you too.
Thank you for connecting with On Wisconsin Outdoors. I checked out four local Kwik Trip stores this week carrying the paper for you at no cost. After one to two weeks on the shelves, there were collectively 14 papers left of 400 stocked. You have to get to one of those 252 Wisconsin Kwik Trip stores early. On another note, have you checked in to Kwik Trip Outdoors lately? Please do and make it a habit. They also are looking to shine the spotlight on your conquests in the field. Another good place to look for OWO is any of 44 Menards stores, a half dozen Gander Mountain stores, any of four Elliott’s Ace hardwares or ask us at 262-549-5550. We’ll match you up with your closest location regardless of where you live in Wisconsin.
I’m looking forward to spending time in my treestand this week, hunting more doves with Micah, with one eye on the upcoming duck hunt. A wedding will keep me out of the blind for a few days. Thank you for connecting with On Wisconsin Outdoors.
Shoot Straight.
Dick Ellis