Enjoy The Great Outdoors
Series of articles written by Jeff that have been published in his local newspaper.
A Mid-Winter Treat
Sometimes the simplest things tend to be the most enjoyable. You don’t realize this as a young person…life is too fast, too many things, too many people to see, etc… As one grows older you start to slow the train down a bit and honestly, a nice afternoon listening to Merle Haggard with the sun […]
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 […]