Enjoy The Great Outdoors Archives

Grandpa and the Kid

“Grandparents, like heroes, are as necessary to a child’s growth as vitamins”, a quote by Joyce Allston. I am a lucky person…I’ve had a lot of good people in my life, not the least of which were my grandparents. Seems to me that some of today’s families are missing one main cog, that being a […]

2015 – Here We Go Fly Casting

Kinda hard to believe…but it is indeed 2015. We are closer to the year 2030 than we are to 1999; what? That can’t be…ah, but it is. I can still remember wondering what might just happen when we cruised into the second millennium…and here we are looking forward to the 16th year of the 2000’s. […]

A Missouri ManCation

I finished up 2014 doing what I love to do…what I hope to be able to do for many years to come; fly fishing for trout and smallmouth … in Missouri. The morning after Christmas found me, dad, Frank and Harrison (who had returned for a couple weeks from Arizona where he is now teaching […]

Catch and Release at Bennett Spring – Winter

As the 8am horn blew I was in the process of putting on my waders. Above and behind me I could hear a chattering from the stream; I knew the sound, it was indeed a pair of Bald Eagles and they were making an abundance of noise. I wasn’t sure what had the pair stirred […]

As The Beeper Tolls

Seldom in the outdoor world are you seriously surprised…on the verge of being shocked; but with five pheasants already in the bag in less than an hour…myself, Frank Terkhorn and Charlie Warthan were once again listening to only the shrill beep of a pair of collars worn by our German Shorthairs. In slightly over an […]

Quail Hunting With the Coach

If you have followed my column the past couple years you know that our local quail population has plummeted to what has been quite frankly…no population. Now that doesn’t mean I haven’t seen or heard quail but finding them come November has been a real chore. This spring while fishing around some of the state’s […]