Kentucky Afield Outdoors: Closing out 2016 with a look ahead — the possibilities for new year
By Kevin Kelly Special to NKyTribune The end of the year is a time for reflecting on the past 12…
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Kentucky Afield Outdoors: Use your old Christmas tree to make new fish habitat in lakes across the state
By Lee McClellan Special to NKyTribune Those who enjoy a natural pine, cedar, spruce or fir tree for Christmas often…
Kentucky Afield Outdoors: Three productive winter crappie fishing spots for those who enjoy solitude
By Lee McClellan Special to NKyTribune Winter is a season of nesting for many Kentuckians. Hot cocoa and a book…
Kentucky Afield Outdoors: Gift ideas for the outdoors enthusiast include Kentucky Afield Calendar
By Kevin Kelly Special to NKyTribune One by one, the photographs appear on the display screen in the darkened Commission…
Kentucky Afield Outdoors: Reels exhibit spotlights important contribution to angling history
By Lee McClellan Special to NKyTribune Many anglers in Kentucky don’t realize our state’s rich contribution to fishing technology and…
Kentucky Afield Outdoors: Fish and Wildlife Department online survey improves state’s HIP data
By Kevin Kelly Special to NKyTribune Kentucky is drawing national attention after dramatically improving the accuracy of harvest and participation…
Kentucky Afield Outdoors: Waterfowl season looks promising, but state needs some cold weather
By Lee McClellan Special to NKyTribune The moderate drought conditions across Kentucky brought baked, cracked yards, dust, fires and streams…
Kentucky Afield Outdoors: All signs point to beginning of modern gun deer season
By Kevin Kelly Special to NKyTribune Shredded bark on saplings, fresh scrapes along old logging trails and trail camera snapshots…
Kentucky Afield Outdoors: Here are three excellent float trips to experience autumn colors
By Lee McClellan Special to NKyTribune The near drought conditions of the fall season seem to have lengthened the peak…
Kentucky Afield Outdoors: Challenging conditions have affect on early returns from 2016-17 deer season
By Kevin Kelly Special to NKyTribune Shirt-sleeve temperatures. Treetops buffeted by high winds. Acorns crunching underfoot. Without question, hunters faced…
Kentucky Afield Outdoors: Three state resort parks offer great fall fishing opportunities
By Lee McClellan Special to NKyTribune The dramatically cooler nights of the last few weeks are a blessing for anglers….
Kentucky Afield Outdoors: Conservation officers memorialized at new Big Rivers WMA State Forest
By Dave Baker Special to NKyTribune Two conservation officers, widely regarded for their involvement with local communities, passion for introducing…
Kentucky Afield Outdoors: Ways to avoid pressure, create memories when taking a youth hunting
By Kevin Kelly Special to NKyTribune Kentucky offers youth hunters an assortment of special seasons in the fall and winter…
Kentucky Afield Outdoors: It’s prime time to catch stream smallmouth bass on topwater lures
By Lee McClellan Special to NKyTribune Shorter days and yellowing leaves are about the only ways you can tell it…
Kentucky Afield Outdoors: With autumn around the corner, it’s time to fall for trout all over again
By Kevin Kelly Special to NKyTribune Anglers treasure the fall months in Kentucky. The shortening periods of daylight and the…
Kentucky Afield Outdoors: Proper shotgun fundamentals critical to wingshooting success
By Lee McClellan Special to KyForward A dove comes into your section of the field on opening day. You crouch…
Kentucky Afield Outdoors: September is time for hunters to file quota hunt applications
By Kevin Kelly Special to NKyTribune As the carefree days of summer give way to the first days of September,…
Kentucky Afield Outdoors: Follow these four tips and you’ll bag more doves this coming season
By Lee McClellan Special to NKyTribune The heavy dew that soaks your shoes in the early morning is often accompanied…
Kentucky Afield Outdoors: Ample recent rain results in promising outlook for dove season
By Lee McClellan Special to NKyTribune The generous rains combined with abundant summer sunshine spurred excellent growth for sunflowers planted…
Kentucky Afield Outdoors: State officials anticipate another record deer season in 2016-17
By Kevin Kelly Special to NKyTribune Many archery hunters in Kentucky will spend the last long weekend of summer getting…
Kentucky Afield Outdoors: Mentor-youth dove hunts offer great opportunity, sign ups begin Aug. 8
By Lee McClellan Special to NKyTribune The excitement of an opening day dove hunt when you are young spawns a…
Kentucky Afield Outdoors: In the midst of the summer heat, fall hunting seasons not that far off
By Kevin Kelly Special to NKyTribune Fall doesn’t officially start for another two months but in one respect it’s already…