“If it’s got fins or feathers, I write about it, and chase after it.”
Marcia Pradines: Chesapeake Marshlands NWR
"Hearing the sika bugle in the morning, evening, or the middle of the night — it makes your hair stand up on your neck.
Greg Senyo: Steelhead Alley Outfitters
"I'm born and raised on the banks of Pennsylvania’s Elk Creek, which is easily the most famous and well known steelhead stream on the alley.
Tyler Johnson: Quaker Neck Gun Club
"If you look at an aerial photo, you’d think you’re in the prairie pothole region!"
Josh Garris: Curtis Wright Outfitters
"The mountains of North Carolina are my stomping grounds.
Levi Pitcock: Double Spur Outfitters
"It really gets exciting when a bear is so close in the brush that you can hear him eating acorns, and you have to wait for a clear shot."
Paul Padding: US Fish and Wildlife Service
"This upcoming season, we’ll have a two-bird daily bag limit on black ducks. ... . We shall see if it has an impact but I’m very excited about it."
Week 22. Wakefield Ruritan Club: 69th Annual Shad Planking
"The peak date is historically right around the time of Shad Planking — the third Wednesday in April.
Week 21. Watermen of Virginia's Eastern Shore
"In our household growing up, if it came up in pot or drudge and you didn’t sell it, you ate it!
Week 20. Joe Humphreys: Penn State Fly-Fishing Legend
"I still keep my hand in the game. We never stop learning, the good lord made it that way."
Week 19. Ducks Unlimited: 80 Years of Conservation
"I have a particular affinity for hunting the Susquehanna Flats. ... You can harvest just about any and every waterfowl species that migrates through Maryland in this single location."
Week 18. Gary Dubiel: Spec Fever
"In six months, you can fish three very different environments and never leave the Neuse River system."
Week 17. Delta Waterfowl: the Duck Hunter's Organization
"What’s great about the mid-Atlantic is that you have a real diversity of species, that all converge from a bunch of different places. "
Week 16. Marc Puckett: Virginia Bobwhite Quail
"The best dollars spent are on habitat first."
Week 15. Tyler Frantz: Pennsylvania Natural Pursuit Outdoors
"There’s a week around the middle of October in Pennsylvania when you can bow hunt, muzzleloader hunt, duck season starts, trapping for furbearer season starts, you can hunt small game like pheasants, grouse, squirrels and rabbits, and of course, you get into some of the best fall trout fishing."
Week 14. Harry Murray: Shenandoah Bronzebacks and Brookies
"I was asked to designed a fly that would float well and match the early hatches of the Quill Gordon and March Brown, and what I came up with was the Mr. Rapidan."
Week 13. Billy Rice: Representing the Maryland Waterman
"When I started working, oysters were our #1 money maker, followed by striped bass, and then followed by blue crab. Today it’s the opposite."
Week 12. 38 North Oysters: Maryland's Sweet Spot
"Oysters are pure and delicious, great for the economy, and one of the the only things that can help the Bay."
Week 11. Will Payne: Virginia Sportsmen's Foundation
"I consider myself lucky to have met so many great people over the last decade who represent the very best of what hunting means."
Week 10. George Daniel: Livin' on the Fly
"The green drake shows up around Memorial Day, and thats really something incredible. To witness thousands of insects eating and laying hatches is something that everyone should witness."