Aligning your schedule with another angler seems more difficult these days. So, generally, I fish alone, snatching an hour or an evening when I can. But lately I鈥檝e had a fishing companion on nearly every outing.This companion never calls or texts ahead; he, or she, just shows up when the ...
You can live by a river for a lifetime; you can drive over it on bridges, hear its murmur as background noise, even draw water up from it through a network of pipes, and never give thought to where it came from or where it鈥檚 headed, never ponder what that stream means to your community, to ...
Spring offers so many outdoor delights that it can be tough to choose which merits whatever free time you can devote to pleasure and relaxation. Lots of outdoor folks in our area hunt turkeys in the spring, others fish for trout. Another ardent element does their hunting with a penknife and a ...
File this under 鈥渟ilver lining.鈥� While most area residents will be annoyed, disgusted, even terrified by the hordes of periodic cicadas that will soon saturate this region, one group awaits the insect legions with glee. It鈥檚 those fly fishermen again. Viewed always by the non-fishing ...
Excepting the Monday after Thanksgiving when deer season opens, yesterday marked the most anticipated day in this area鈥檚 outdoor year. Trout fishing kicked off in all streams and lakes that can support these discriminating and desirable fish.Our region鈥檚 menu of waters offers something for ...
It鈥檚 not for everyone. But the small remnant corps for whom it is are fine with that. They get the night woods to themselves.Hunting raccoons with treeing hounds, shortened to 鈥溾�榗oon hunting鈥� in common parlance, is a rural American tradition with roots reaching back to colonial times. ...
