Beyond the Layers

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

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.

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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.

A Father's Day tribute to the Pennsylvania hunter who taught his son that the woods reward patience more than luck.

Painter Jess Mudgett drove into the sagebrush to finally paint the mural he had promised an old friend years ago.

Turkeys for Tomorrow's Jason Lupardus explains why wild turkey habitat is disappearing again, and what hunters can do.

Steven Drake spends 100+ days a year living out of his truck. Get the full tour of his hunting rig and setup tips.

Ashley Hudnall was rushed to the ER in the middle of the night, unable to breathe. It started with a single tick bite.

Watch a traditional bowhunter close to 30 yards on a Dall sheep in the Alaskan backcountry, about as tough as it gets.

An Alaska hunter reckons with being a climate advocate who flies to work and guides heli-skiing. Here's how he squares it.

One hunter limits every shot to 25 yards with a longbow. Here's why he thinks that's the fairest way to hunt Alaska.

Beau Brooks shows how he softens his calls to close the deal on a wary tom right at the edge of shotgun range.

Beau Brooks breaks the gobble down into simple steps so you can finally nail it on a diaphragm call.

One elk caller turned his skills on turkeys, covering 18-plus miles a hunt rather than sitting in a blind all day.

One mountain hunter found his off-season fix on a sailboat. See how sailing and hunting scratch the same itch.

A turkey hunting road trip from Texas to New Mexico ends with a campfire meal of fresh turkey and foraged cactus pads.

See the black-and-white waterfowl shot that took home DIVERGE 12's grand prize, plus 6 category winners.

Ali Rione covered 150 miles over 12 days in British Columbia. Her Stone's sheep didn't show up until the last day.

After a decade of tagging along on other people's hunts, she drew a bison tag and made her first solo shot at 40.

Farmers in California's Central Valley are rescuing wild duck eggs from their fields before the harvest comes through.

Lindsey Davis never planned to hunt. See how foraging, farming, and skinning roadkill led her to her first shot of venison.

Slipped inside a bull's bubble? World calling champion Beau Brooks shares how to draw him in without blowing your cover.

Corey Jacobsen waited nearly two decades for this hunt. Drawing a coveted tag is a cause for celebration, but it’s also a crossroads that brings immense pressure. Questions about expectations and the meaning of success linger in the mind as the moment draws nearer. This hunt caused Corey to consider on how he’s changed as an elk hunter—and as a person—in the 18 years since he first applied. Amidst this self-reflection, he located a rut fest and called many bulls to bow range despite the rough country and sparse public land access.

A Whitetail Properties agent buys 40 acres in southern Iowa and learns what it really means to own land, and to work it.

Seeing my card get charged felt like winning the lottery, because essentially that's what it was. After almost 20 years putting in for a once in a lifetime Colorado bull moose hunt, I'd finally drawn the tag. Mine was just one of a handful of resident bull tags out of hundreds of applicants.

A writer joins a controlled burn with the Wild Turkey Federation, torching Michigan grassland to restore vanishing habitat.

Rachel Ahtila spent years guiding others to their Dall sheep. For her first, she chose to bring her father instead.

Join Adam Foss and crew for weeks deep in British Columbia's backcountry, living with nothing but the gear on their backs.

Turkeys for Tomorrow's Chase Grubbs explains why wild turkey numbers are dropping again, and what's driving the decline.

Justin Lee wants his kids to grow up wild and free like he did. Meet the Hawaii conservationist, fisherman, and hunter.

Practice alone won't get you the shot. Learn the down-and-back drills that build the cardio and composure to make it count.

A year after a controlled burn, a Tom walks straight into range. See how prescribed fire is restoring Michigan's oak savanna.

A brutal Idaho storm during an elk hunt sparked the philosophy behind the gear we make. Read the story behind our why.

Five trips into B.C.'s brutal winter goat country, with a sixth already calling. One hunter on why the misery pulls him back.

After a decade chasing greenheads in flooded timber, an Arkansas hunter swapped waders for bibs and found snow geese.

Low deer numbers, thick cover, and swirling winds make Appalachia's big woods some of the toughest whitetail country.

A career chef explains how his obsession with nose-to-tail butchery led him from professional kitchens into the backcountry.

From a Nebraska boyhood to training labs on Chicago sidewalks, one handler shares what it takes to build a retriever.

A career chef who'd never considered hunting found it reshaped how he sees food, solitude, and his place in the world.

Whole catfish stuffed with wild sumac and grilled over coals, topped with a home-garden curry. Get the full recipe.

SITKA is fully funding four graduate scholarships in waterfowl habitat management, including hands-on mallard banding.

A turkey hunter missed his first gobbler point-blank, and was glad it got away. Here's why failure makes you better.

Bacon, guac, Swiss and a pound of ground wild turkey, smashed thin on a hot griddle. Get David Halloran's full burger recipe.

David Halloran has hand-carved turkey calls since he was 12. See how obsessive attention to wood grain builds a better call.

Osceola turkeys barely gobble, which is why a sixth-generation Florida guide swears by a soft purr box and less calling.

Short on confidence and out of shape, a hunter postholes through deep snow on a late-season Utah elk hunt to prove himself.

Three weeks of stalled rut action finally break with a 180-degree wind switch and a buck stepping out at full draw.

A Montana fire chief raises his own livestock and fills his freezer with elk, deer, and waterfowl he hunts himself.

Timo Rova turns deer hide into rainproof coffee bags, a tradition from his family's Finnish Lapland roots. Get his pattern.

Wild pigs have no season and no bag limit. One hunter explains why that makes them worth pursuing.