Video – Jeff Landing A Rainbow Trout
This video was shot with my Olympus TG-610 underwater camera by my son, Harrison, who was actually filming the Pileated Woodpeckers in the background. As he was filming I hooked and landed a very nice rainbow using a size 10 olive/brown wooly bugger. So….when you watch it….keep an eye in the background for the fighting […]
Rooster Red
The other day one of my kids at school asked me what my favorite color was…didn’t take long for my reply; “Rooster Red” I said…knowing that I would soon have to explain my answer. Not just red…but the color of a rooster pheasant as it climbs upward toward the atmosphere; on a bluebird day when […]
A White Christmas
I don’t know about all of you but I like a white Christmas. There is something about a gentle snowfall on Christmas Eve and waking up to snow on Christmas Day. Snow and the color white are pure and for me it just better represents how crisp and beautiful nature can be. I don’t want […]
Cool Waters
Fishing is at best a crap shoot; it is in fact, fishing, not catching. Now don’t get me wrong or perceive this as pessimism because it isn’t. It is reality and anyone that wets a line of any kid will tell you that fish are fickle. Why you pound them on certain days and then […]
Winter Tips For Better Smallmouth Fishing
If I have learned one thing over the past few years fishing for smallmouth….it is that you can’t predict what kind of mood they are going to be in. I have caught fish in a fury, hand over fist, until I was tired and in less than a day, in the same stream, went back […]