Enjoy The Great Outdoors
Series of articles written by Jeff that have been published in his local newspaper.
The Basic Instinct Of Nature
I am constantly amazed and reminded of the most basic instinct in nature….survival. I have been watching the Discovery series titled North America over the past few weeks. If you haven’t yet seen it or would like to…tune into the Discovery Channel on Sunday night; the series has focused primarily on nature and the animals […]
A Hot Creek On A Cool Day
As the song says…you can’t ever go home again; in my case it was my oldest son, Harrison, coming home, from college. Harrison has been attending Lewis University in Chicago…right there with all those yuppies, big buildings, freeways (that aren’t free) and lot of concrete. The cure seemed like a good dose of southern Indiana […]
O! The Joy!
On November 7, 1805, Lewis and Clark were on the finishing few miles of their incredible journey across 2/3 of our own United States; they had reached what Clark thought was the Pacific Ocean and in his journal he wrote, “Ocian in view! O! the Joy”. What Clark didn’t know was that they had actually […]
Match The Hatch
For a fly-fisherman, matching the hatch is a big deal…in fact, for any fisherman, matching the hatch is important. In the fly fishing world we tend to get carried away…there are those who tie the smallest of flies, all the way down to size 30 and 32. You probably don’t know sizing but picture a […]
Sweet Owen Tom
Hunting and fishing are funny in that sometimes things just don’t go the way you planned for them to go…then they do; it seems like the harder you try the less productive it becomes. Such was the case early on Saturday, May 4th as I left my home very early and pulled into my favorite […]
Water Clarity
Friday, April 26th was much like other Fridays at school…but it was the end of a pretty long week and through most of the week it had been wet and when combined with busy, well that meant that I had not been fishing since the previous weekend. I drove the old red Suburban to school […]