by Ben Hope | Jul 5, 2021 | Editor's pick, Features, Hunting
A cocooned life of heat pumps, log fires, and electric blankets can often make us forget the dipping temperature during winter. But deer don’t have any of those technological treats. They rough it through hail, sun, rain and shine all year round. Seasons are...
by Ben Hope | May 5, 2021 | Editor's pick, Features, Fishing
One way to get over the winter months and limited fly fishing for trout or saltwater is to hunker down, read a few books, swap a few e-mails with fishing friends, and tie up some new patterns for the coming spring and summer. But hold on, not so fast. There’s still...
by Ben Hope | Mar 10, 2021 | Editor's pick, Features, Hunting
It was just going to be an evening hunt, but it inadvertently ended up being an overnight trip. It so happened just a few years ago on an overcast autumn evening, I was headed up into the hills on a high-country station to photograph a stag. My Labrador and I...
by Ben Hope | Jan 29, 2021 | Editor's pick, Features, Fishing
Theodore Gordon, a noted American trout fisherman of yesteryear, wrote: “The great charm of fly-fishing is that we are always learning.” It’s that intangible uncertainty, the challenge that makes trout fishing addictive. The same can be said for snapper fishing...
by Ben Hope | Sep 7, 2020 | Features, Hunting
Hunters usually have a favourite hunting spot and they like to look after it, particularly the deer that live there. A hunter can plan their own game management by way of selectively taking a deer relative to the time of the year. August and September see a reversal...
