Enjoy The Great Outdoors
Series of articles written by Jeff that have been published in his local newspaper.
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 […]
A Summer of Fly Fishing
4,152 miles, 7 states, lots of outdoor adventures…oh, and lots of fly fishing. By the time you read this column, school will just about be open, again! That is hard to believe as school seems to start earlier each year; right now my focus is on as much fishing as possible. June 22 found me […]
Iowa’s Driftless Area
Our second week of vacation found us putting Nebraska in our rear view mirror and dead-heading for Northeastern Iowa’s driftless area. When I say that Nebraska was in our rear view mirror…I might add that one very large and ugly super-cell was also bearing down on us from Sioux City to Waterloo; I was driving […]
The Land of Milk and Honey
It was at about this date in my column that you should have got more information on The American Prairie Reserve; I wrote about it a few weeks back. Things don’t always go as planned…sometimes you just have to go with the flow. As I said in last week’s Journal, we had experienced car issues […]
Mount Rushmore and My Lake Trout
There are two kinds of people in the world…those who have been to and seen Mount Rushmore, and those who haven’t; up until just recently, Vickie was the latter. We had finally arrived in Rapid City, South Dakota and taking the 30 minute drive up Highway 16 was high on our to-do list. First, I […]
Top O’ The Water Morning To You
I just recently had a birthday…no big deal now, each year past 50 is just another number. Many of you know what I am talking about; what is odd however is that as each year rolls by I feel like it’s the simpler things in life that have value. My good buddy, Kenny Williams, and […]