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Mark Walters For Agri-View
Jan 18, 2025
Jan 18, 2025

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Tom Walters paddles slowly; for most of their hunts he and Mark Walters travel by skiff or canoe.

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Brothers Tom, left, and Mark Walters hunt and fish together; they’ve been doing it all their lives.

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The boys from Mississippi are hard hunters and love to play in the water.

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Mark Walters For Agri-View

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Mark Walters lives near Necedah, Wisconsin. An outdoor-adventures writer since 1989, he enjoys hobby farming, adventure and anything outdoors. "If I wasn't earning a living as a writer I would want to be a beef farmer," he says. Email sunsetoutdoors@tds.net to reach him.