Enjoy The Great Outdoors
Series of articles written by Jeff that have been published in his local newspaper.
A Pre Season Bird Hunt
If you are going to have a good bird dog then one simple rule applies; you need to put pup into birds. Now that sounds pretty simple however it isn’t that easy to do anymore. Truth is that our quail population here in southern Indiana has fallen to all-time lows and unfortunately the prospective of […]
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 […]