Enjoy The Great Outdoors Archives

Fishing Friends

Sunday, April 27 found me up early; I was in the woods a bit after 6am looking for the same two gobblers I had watched the day before. If you think turkey hunting is easy…you probably haven’t hunted enough because these two big Toms had a few hens with them and while they were close […]

Springtime Smallmouth

Indeed…spring has finally sprung! If you are like me it couldn’t have happened soon enough. The Easter weekend was frankly about as amazing from a weather standpoint as anyone could ask for; I certainly hope you were able to get outside and just move around, I certainly did! Before I go any further let me […]

Greene-Sullivan Trout Fishing

I am sure it is quite obvious that I like fly fishing; honestly it doesn’t matter to me what I am after…from catfish to bluegills, bass to crappie, or even the elusive trout, right up the food chain of my personal fish list to the top…smallmouth bass. Fly fishing from one of my tubes, especially […]

All Things Bennett Springs

First, let me back up from the title and make sure that we all understand that there is only one spring…but the title didn’t work as well in the singular? Second, I have written many times about Bennett Springs and Bennett Spring State Park, but decided to do a column about all the amenities that […]

Bucket Mouth

In case you think my column is about that loud, obnoxious person that you have to work with each day…relax, I don’t know them. You can probably guess what today’s discussion is by looking above at the photo; for as you may already know, bucket mouth is short or slang for largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) […]

Good Things Come To Those Who Wade

Maybe you could describe it as a shade of blue, maybe green, maybe a combination of both…if I were a person who saw color better then I probably could go to great depths talking about the subtle hues; truth is a am a fly fisherman…I believe that some people are born to do certain things, […]