Fishing Destinations
The Niangua River – Browns, Bows and Smallies
Just a mere 11 miles west of Lebanon, Missouri lies Bennet Spring State Park. The spring itself is pretty amazing as somewhere in the range of 110 million gallons of cold spring water bubbles up from Mother Earth each day and trickles northward towards The Niangua River. At that confluence a peculiar thing goes on; […]
Bennet Spring State Park – Spring Break 2017
You might be thinking…another video from Bennet Spring State Park, yep you’re right. Can’t help it or better yet, can’t help myself as I truly love this place. Not just the fishing, although it is great…but the people here, the wildlife and maybe most important…the fact that while I am here I can relax, re-wind […]
Float Tubing for Early Season Bass
Anytime you can fish open water in the first few days of March…it’s a win for sure! This year, here in southern Indiana, we have had one of our most mild winters and all factors point to it staying that way. On Friday, March 3rd, me and my buddy Frank Terkhorn traveled about an hour […]
From Blast to Cast – Montana to Iowa
On a recent hunting and fishing trip that I’ve labeled “blast to cast”, I had a special day whereby I took a Montana-Medley of upland game birds; three pheasants, two sharp-tail grouse and one Hungarian Partridge. The next morning I awoke to snow…not just a smattering of the white stuff-but all out snow. In fact […]
August On Sugar Creek
I called Frank Terkhorn on Saturday night…our conversation was quick and frankly to understand it you would almost need to speak our code, our fly fishing code that is. “It’s still running under 100 and the rain they were supposed to get last night, it fell west of our entry. I think we should be […]
Fly Fishing The Big Walnut
Fishing when July rolls around can at times be a crapshoot…especially if you are looking to fish on still waters as the temps within the lakes climbs and climbs finally arriving at a point where there is just so little oxygen that any of the ‘big fish that go bump in the night’ really aren’t […]