Travel & Places: How to Make Body Cooling Neck Wraps

How to Make Body Cooling Neck Wraps

Body cooling neck wraps are useful after engaging in long periods of athletic activity. They help alleviate heat related discomfort. According to the Virginia Tech Health Center, a cooling neck wrap can also be used to reduce swelling associated with neck injuries and reduce healing time in the firs

Travel & Places: How to Use Wooden Ice Fishing Poles

How to Use Wooden Ice Fishing Poles

Using a wooden ice fishing pole can make the sport more challenging. A wooden ice fishing pole is not very different in construction than a fiberglass or plastic pole, and learning to use one can be simple.

Travel & Places: How to Sharpen Fishing Hooks

How to Sharpen Fishing Hooks

Fishing with a dull hook is a waste of time and effort. What good does it do to carefully weight your line, choose the right bait and carefully maneuver your line into just the right place if you can't hook the fish when it bites? Keeping the hooks sharp, especially on less-disposable tackle such as

Travel & Places: How to Identify Antique Fishing Poles

How to Identify Antique Fishing Poles

Antique fishing rods can provide monetary, aesthetic and sentimental value. Identifying antique rods requires a keen eye and attention to detail. There are numerous old rods available from a variety of sources. This makes it difficult to discern value when looking at old rods. Learning to separate t

Travel & Places: How to Hang Panels With Sheers and a Type of Rod

How to Hang Panels With Sheers and a Type of Rod

Hanging curtain panels with sheers is easy to do and most easily accomplished with a double curtain rod. Pairing curtain panels with sheers is a well-planned home decor strategy. Curtain panels are decorative, block light and create privacy. Choose panels that complement your decor, from charming co

Travel & Places: How Do Manatees Reproduce?

How Do Manatees Reproduce?

Manatees reproduce somewhat differently than other animals. While many animals form pair bonds for life, the manatee goes an entirely different route via mating herds. In the course of mating, one female, or cow, is trailed by as many as twelve or more bulls. This is the simple mating...

Travel & Places: How to Build Fish Structures

How to Build Fish Structures

Submerged structure has been effective in attracting fish in salt water and is now being used in freshwater lakes where there is not enough natural cover. The structure attracts schooling fish. It provides a place both to run for safety and to look for food. Bait fish are drawn to structure, and sch

Travel & Places: Characteristics of a 201A Vacuum Tube

Characteristics of a 201A Vacuum Tube

Many antique radios used the 201A vacuum tube.vintage radio and gramophone image by jovica antoski from Fotolia.comThe 201A vacuum tube, made by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and General Electric (GE), was one of the first mass-produced electronic tubes offered, leading to the...

Travel & Places: Homemade Fly Tying Tools

Homemade Fly Tying Tools

Tying your own flies can add an extremely rewarding aspect to fly fishing and building your own tools can, in turn, make tying flies a more rewarding experience. With the exception of scissors, which should be sharp and in good repair, just about all the tools you can use for fly fishing can be hand

Travel & Places: Salt Water Fishing Tips

Salt Water Fishing Tips

Make saltwater fishing a breeze by following a few tips.fish. fish called coy carp swimming in a pond image by L. Shat from Fotolia.comFishermen of any skill level find saltwater fishing challenging. Regardless of training, large bodies of saltwater such as oceans are unpredictable. The...

Travel & Places: How Do Seals Protect Themselves From Predators?

How Do Seals Protect Themselves From Predators?

Many people know seals only from zoos or circus acts, but seals are found in the wild in the waters of the Arctic and Antarctic, the rocky islands of Scotland and the tropical beaches of Hawaii, according to the Scottish Natural Heritage nature group. Although some species, such as the leopard seal,

Travel & Places: Instructions for a Polar Kraft Livewell

Instructions for a Polar Kraft Livewell

Polar Kraft boats use any of a number of live wells not only for keeping your catch fresh, but also for keeping the bait fish alive and swimming, as well. Polar Kraft's live wells fill via a water inlet switch and are drained in the same manner. The well's insulation helps keep the water cool even o

Travel & Places: How to Make a Split Grip Fishing Rod Handle

How to Make a Split Grip Fishing Rod Handle

A split grip fishing rod is very lightweight and has an intensified level of sensitivity so you can feel even the slightest tug on your rod. While it is easy to purchase a fishing rod handle at a store, it is also possible to make your own. This will not only save money, but also make your rod and

Travel & Places: Do it Yourself Boxes

Do it Yourself Boxes

Boxes are used to hold a wide variety of objects, and can be decorative like a jewelry box, or plain like a cardboard box. If you are going to use boxes to hold many small items, such as those needed for party or shower favors, you can end up spending a lot of money on specialty boxes that consist o

Travel & Places: How to Rig a Sunfish Bluegill As Bait for a Flathead Catfish

How to Rig a Sunfish Bluegill As Bait for a Flathead Catfish

Flathead catfish will attack a sunfish bluegill that appears injured or is moving erratically, which is often the same thing. Unlike channel catfish and other cousins that prefer foul-smelling dead bait, the flathead cat is a more aggressive and territorial fish that will move on smaller baitfish ei

Travel & Places: How to Fish for Whitefish in Northwest Montana

How to Fish for Whitefish in Northwest Montana

Whitefish congregate near the bottom of lakes and streams during the summer months; they feed on shellfish and bottom-dwelling insect larvae, but as a species are generally drawn to cooler waters. During the spring, whitefish migrate to shallow waters, seeking out hatching insects and fish eggs of o

Travel & Places: Can You Fish on the French Broad River With Live Bait?

Can You Fish on the French Broad River With Live Bait?

Snaking through popular tourist destinations like Asheville, North Carolina and Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, the French Broad River is widely considered one of the more popular and beautiful waterways in the eastern United States. Each year, thousands of recreation enthusiasts flock to the French Broad

Travel & Places: How to Get Clamperl In "Pokémon HeartGold"

How to Get Clamperl In "Pokémon HeartGold"

Clamperl is a Water-type Pokémon introduced in the third generation "Pokémon Ruby," "Sapphire" and "Emerald" games for the Game Boy Advance. It evolves into Huntail if traded while holding a DeepSeaTooth, and it evolves into Gorebyss if traded while holding a DeepSeaScale. Both of Clam

Travel & Places: Remote Alaska Fishing

Remote Alaska Fishing

To get an idea of the variety of locations available in Alaska for remote fishing, break the state down into regions. Each region has its own unique character with plenty of fishing lodges and guides to help find the best local fishing in remote areas.