Hey everyone. My sincere apologies for the lack of posts on the Generation Wild blog lately. We’ve been working on some big changes to the blog lately, and I’m thrilled to announce that we’re moving to the Big Leagues.

You can now read the Generation Wild blog at Field & Stream’s website. Click here to follow the blog. Now you can follow the posts of the Pro Staffers and check out the magazine’s other blogs in one place.

We’re going to be making some other changes to the blog, including new guest bloggers and well as weekly prize giveaways. So be sure to check the blog often. And if you have any tips or ideas, send them my way.

Hope you enjoy! -Colin

I’ve got a confession. I’m a fishing junkie. OK, well, that’s not the confession part. The confession is that as much as I love to fish, I’ve never plopped my bucket on a bucket in the middle of an iced-over piece of water, drilled a hole, and dunked jigs and bait in search of a mid-winter trophy.

In other words, I’ve never been ice fishing.

I hoped I would finally make it out for the first time this season, but weather patterns and schedule conflicts make the possibility of finding time on the ice more and more unlikely as the end of winter is rapidly approaching.

Watching Nate Dean’s ice-fishing video made the fun I’m missing out on even more obvious. If you haven’t watched it, you need to. He’s got some good tips and explains how to use some basic gear—and proves that it works by catching a few fish. A few of those panfish and some perch like he caught towards the end, and you could have yourself a nice fish fry!

So my question to the Generation Wild world is this: Am I missing the boat here? Who else out there is an ice fisherman? Hit me with your take on the sport and see if you can make me jealous. —Ben

Reading Tommy Ladson’s deer hunting story the other day got me juiced up all over again for deer season. But then I looked at the calendar, and had that sinking feeling when I realized I’ve got at least eight more months before things get moving in my part of the country again. But thanks for the story, Tommy. It got me daydreaming, which is always nice this time of year.

While I was digging around on the Internet, I found two other similar stories of successful whitetail hunters. Fresh out of a hunting education course, Garrett Comstock, of Alabama, had a little luck on his side when he shot a great 9-point whitetail buck, his largest to date, over Christmas.

Then there’s this story about John Bowman’s incredible last-day-of-the-season 10-point whitetail. John was sitting on the edge of a marsh while some hunting friends organized a deer drive that pushed two bucks directly in his direction. Shooting a shotgun loaded with buckshot, John took aim at the largest of the two deer and dropped the animal at a range of only 30 yards. Incredible!

A lot of us have had to hang up the hunting gear for the season already, but stories like this keep us primed for next season. To Tommy and the rest of the crew, keep the stories, photos, and videos coming—we’re living your adventures through your eyes. —Ben