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What Is Koji Aging and Does It Work?

If you keep up with the trends in culinary culture, there is a good chance you’ve come across some mention of koji-aged meat. The widespread claim is that in three days you can recreate the flavors of meat that has been dry-aged for 45 days. I wanted to challenge that statement by testing it on wild game. I took some venison backstrap and rubbed it with koji for 72 hours to determine if this aging hack lives up to the hype. In English, koji is...

Video: Does Bleeding Out Walleye Work?

How do you make a backstrap or morel taste better? Like most things that you shoot, catch, or harvest, there’s a direct link between how you care for your protein and how it tastes. Walleye, the backstrap or morel of the river, is no exception. One thing that walleye anglers disagree on is whether to bleed fish. I’ve always been in the “not to bleed” and “not to kill” camp. In the past, walleye that I threw on ice never seemed to be an...

What Does the Government Shutdown Mean for Hunting and Fishing?

On Saturday, Jan. 12, the partial federal government shutdown became the longest such closure in the nation’s history. As the stalemate between the President and the House of Representatives over funding for a $5 billion wall along the Mexican border spills into a fifth week, shuttered and unfunded public lands management agencies are starting to feel the pinch. The Department of the Interior, which houses the National Park Service, Bureau of...