The Making of a Bird Dog
It’s officially been thirty years; I can still remember my first bird dog…she was a German Shorthair that went by the name of Gypsy. I had a few less proper names that I called her during those first training years. I have to say right up front that most of the issue was mine and […]
Bird Dog Training Session
The video I’ve posted here is a training session with my one year old German Wirehair, Pappi. He had a lot of training last season and even had some wild pheasants shot over him…but we are in the process of finishing him because he is at a time and maturation level whereby we can get […]
A Summer of Fly Fishing
4,152 miles, 7 states, lots of outdoor adventures…oh, and lots of fly fishing. By the time you read this column, school will just about be open, again! That is hard to believe as school seems to start earlier each year; right now my focus is on as much fishing as possible. June 22 found me […]
Iowa’s Driftless Area
Our second week of vacation found us putting Nebraska in our rear view mirror and dead-heading for Northeastern Iowa’s driftless area. When I say that Nebraska was in our rear view mirror…I might add that one very large and ugly super-cell was also bearing down on us from Sioux City to Waterloo; I was driving […]
Decorah, Iowa and The Driftless – Video
The following video was shot in northeastern Iowa, in the driftless area. There is tons of water to be fished and the first 3 days I didn’t see another person fishing. I had arrived on the heels of some big rains so the water was muddy and stained …. it made for some tough fishing […]
The Land of Milk and Honey
It was at about this date in my column that you should have got more information on The American Prairie Reserve; I wrote about it a few weeks back. Things don’t always go as planned…sometimes you just have to go with the flow. As I said in last week’s Journal, we had experienced car issues […]