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 […]
A Great Day
Wednesday of last week….the day before Thanksgiving, was an odd one for me. For the first time since 1986 I wouldn’t be spending the week of Thanksgiving with dad, pheasant hunting. Most of these past 25 or so years has been spent in Kansas…if you don’t remember, we had a dry and hot summer and […]
Deer Crossings
My buddy, Frank, recently sent me an email concerning deer crossings. I will put this one in the category of….you have to see it to believe it! So….after you read today’s column and get past my rant about our overall lack of common sense…then check out the YouTube video below…and you too will sit and […]
Crayfish Patterns – Give Them A Slow Go – Now
If you are a small creek or river fisherman like I am….now is the time as the past couple weeks has been very good….seems like the smallies and spotted bass are putting on the feed bag. Crayfish seems to be the only pattern! I have tried other things but keep going back to the fact […]