Enjoy The Great Outdoors
Series of articles written by Jeff that have been published in his local newspaper.
A Child’s First Fish
“You can give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life”, words spoken by 7th century BC philosopher Kwan Tzu. This is truly one of my favorite quotes and one that I refer to each day while […]
Fly Fishing On My Favorite Day Of The Week
Do you have a favorite day of the week? Most of us do; for me, no questions asked, it is Sunday. As a kid, growing up in southern Indiana I loved Sundays. We would be up early…but not as early as the rest of the week, travel down highway 45 to Greene County, to Little […]
Autumn – My Favorite Time of Year
Autumn officially begins on a September day when there is equally 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness. This happens somewhere around the morning of the 23rd this year (2011). It doesn’t really matter to me…in fact it is one of those things that I know can’t be controlled; it is going to […]
Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning?
These next few days are going to be tough ones for a lot of us…and frankly will bring back memories that for many of us are still etched in the back of our minds. It is and will be for my generation our ‘Pearl Harbor’ moment in time. I know for many of you out […]
Fly Fishing Greene-Sullivan State Forest
If you didn’t see…recently, sometime this spring, there was a large muskie caught in the Greene-Sullivan State Forest in Indiana; more specifically the fish was reported to be caught on Bass Lake in the West Dugger Unit. If you are a fisherman and haven’t yet journeyed to the Greene-Sullivan area…you are missing out on a […]
He Thinks We’re Just Fishing
My last free Saturday before the volleyball juggernaut and just a couple weeks before Harrison goes back to college…(this August he will be off to Lewis University in Chicago to play 2 more years of college golf) found the two of us fishing side by side down Indian Creek in Lawrence County; as we hop […]