Enjoy The Great Outdoors
Series of articles written by Jeff that have been published in his local newspaper.
A Good Kind of Tired
You know…there are lots of different kinds of tired; fact is that when I was a kid roaming around my grandparent’s farm in Stanford-I’d often just stop, drop and nap. We had an old farm dog named Cricket (she lived to be 23 years old) and she and I would take off on daily journeys […]
A Perfect Evening
Dictionary.com defines perfect as excellent or complete beyond practical or theoretical improvement; somehow complete beyond improvement is very fitting for an early September night that my buddy Frank Terkhorn and I recently had. We had made our way north and east to Morgantown to fish a lake that Frank had gotten permission on…and as they […]
Hillenbrand FWA
The skies were angry…overhead it had become very dark; I trained my ear to the west listening for a rumble of thunder as I made yet another long cast with my Winston 3-weight fly rod. On the other end of my fly-line was a shad popper-as it settled down upon the blackish water I watched […]
Upper Sugar Creek
The smallmouth bass is quite frankly…one of the top fighting fish anywhere; certainly here in our local waters of southern Indiana these striped beauties will fight you like a hungry bulldog. Maybe if we had trout in our local waters I would spend time chasing a toothy brown but smallies are just an epic fish; […]
A Night With The Vet
From 2000 to 2009 (ten years) I coached boys golf here at Edgewood; you might say it was the best and worst of times. I got to spend a lot of time each year with different young men that were aspiring to be good golfers…now I’ve said many, many times that golf is different than […]
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 […]