Beyond the Layers

Preparation. Precision. Controlled chaos. That’s tarpon fishing. SITKA Gear ambassador Captain Brett Martina works the waters around Apalachicola, Florida's Forgotten Coast, where tarpon have migrated for longer than humans have lived here.

Rancher Jaimie Stoltzfus belly-crawled to a buck with her 8-month-old strapped in a carrier, calling it her best hunt yet.

Pushing the limits of what’s possible in technical hunting gear is, and always will be, our core mission. But part of the essence of SITKA is in the people who test, abuse and demand the best from it in the real world: our Athletes.

For champion bass angler, Brandon Palaniuk, fishing was always the most important thing in life. And then everything suddenly changed. The film explores how a fishing-obsessed kid from small-town Idaho became one of the most recognizable faces on the national bass fishing circuit—and then something more meaningful than either of those.

Musky are the fish of 10,000 casts. Learn the mechanics, tactics and strategy that separate legends from everyone else.

A Folds of Honor scholarship sent Kyle Engel to Montana's top wildlife biology program. Here's how his dad shaped that path.

See how Connor Gabbott friends floated past a sleeping grizzly, got charged by another, and portaged gear for 100+ miles.

Three-time duck calling champion John Stephens won't trust a call until he's recorded and played it back first.

Rachel Ahtila's mum had one rule: 'Don't peak, my dear. Always make tomorrow better than today.' See what other moms taught.

A 2016 algae crisis turned Florida fishing guide Chris Wittman into a clean-water activist. Hear how it started.

Two buddies called in a Yucatan ocellated turkey, then turned its feathers into a fly built to fool permit.

A transplanted fish hatchery worker traded New York for Sitka's blacktail and world-class steelhead, and never looked back.

Guide Lee Hart has 99 sheep hunts behind him at 85. His mentee drew the tag in Lee's unit and asked him along for the 100th.

Watch how a Purple Heart Marine who lost both legs found his way back, chasing Dall sheep in the Northwest Territories.

A career smokejumper explains how reading wind and terrain from wildfires now guides his canoe into deer season.

See the raw, unposed shots that have won SITKA's DIVERGE photo contest since 2013, no trophy poses required.

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Veterans traded their old mission for a new one: rebuilding the Chesapeake Bay's oyster reefs, shell by shell.

See what it takes to hunt the King Eider, North America's holy grail of duck hunting, on a remote island in the Bering Sea.

Chris Bee tagged his first buck at 10 and never stopped. See how that led him to owning his own Iowa whitetail ground.

Get the story of how a relocated bison herd and Kodiak's grizzlies learned to share the island.

At 78, with two heart valve replacements and a new hip, Don Lovely climbed to 8,400 feet for a ram he'd waited 45 years for.

Spearfishing at 3 a.m., grilling octopus at sunset: go inside a Big Island trip that became a lesson in community.

In the self-proclaimed duck capital of the world, one 6,000-acre property is fighting to save the flooded timber ducks need.