Missouri is an amazing state…the amount of land and water available to a sportsman is worth noting. It is no secret that I love to fly-fish and the feel of a trout on the other end…well, let’s say it is worth a six hour drive; anytime! My dad, Jonas and buddy Frank left early on […]

On Monday, July 2nd, Vickie and I sat out on an adventure; we would leave Branson and the comfort of Taneycomo in search of new water. I had read two different pieces this past year exclaiming the beauty and quality of fishing surrounding the area just north of Tecumseh, Missouri. Here there are two water […]

As luck would have it, Vickie and I headed out for our Missouri vacation on the hottest day of the year….in fact, it might well have been one of the hottest June days ever recorded; either way it is a long way across Illinois when the temperature exceeds 100 degrees! I spent as much time […]

I can better appreciate how Huck Finn felt after a recent day where I spent a few hours fishing our own White River. For sure the White is not the “Mighty Mississip”… but when you are used to walking small streams it may as well have been. I still remember watching the old black and […]

They say the Muskellunge or Musky for short, is the fish of a thousand casts…probably true because I have fished in our local Musky waters for literally hundreds of hours and up to just recently had only caught two small specimens, a 9 and 12 inch fish, both caught in Black Cat which is a […]