Enjoy The Great Outdoors
Series of articles written by Jeff that have been published in his local newspaper.
Bass Tourney For The Volleyball Team
Most of you, the readers of this column, will know that I am a teacher at Edgewood High School and also the volleyball coach; lots of hats and sometimes these hats cross each other…such is the case this upcoming June 15th, as the Edgewood Volleyball team is going to be putting on a bass tourney […]
Fishing in Missouri’s Wine Country
If wine is your ‘cup of tea’….then St. James, Missouri might just be a destination; I will add that not only is the famous winery located here at exit 195 on I-44 just west of St. Louis, but there is also some very good fishing. Meramec Spring Park is also just a few miles down […]
It’s The Little Things
Sometimes the recollection of our boyish sports comes back to us after manhood, and one who has been “addicted” to fishing relapses into his old “ailment”; then angling becomes a pleasant kind of disease, and one’s friends are apt to become inoculated with the virus, for it is contagious. This is a passage from one […]
An End To A Great Year
2012 is now behind us; I’m an optimistic person and can’t wait to see what the new year will bring…that being said, I spent the last 4 days of 2012 waist deep in moving water and it was exactly what the doctor ordered. I met Frank and my dad at 5am on Friday the 28th, […]
Rooster Red
The other day one of my kids at school asked me what my favorite color was…didn’t take long for my reply; “Rooster Red” I said…knowing that I would soon have to explain my answer. Not just red…but the color of a rooster pheasant as it climbs upward toward the atmosphere; on a bluebird day when […]
A White Christmas
I don’t know about all of you but I like a white Christmas. There is something about a gentle snowfall on Christmas Eve and waking up to snow on Christmas Day. Snow and the color white are pure and for me it just better represents how crisp and beautiful nature can be. I don’t want […]