Night Time, Cold Water, Fox River Walleye
It's that time of year when anglers that are still out angling on the Fox River have turned there attention to Ol' Marble-eye. That's right, it's walleye time. The air…
Funny How? Funny Like a Clown?
Well, I thought it was a little amusing anyway. No, not the picture. Nine months out of the year my car has everything in it that I could possibly need…
Up a Creek, Again
The plan for the day was to go out to Marseilles State Fish and Wildlife Area to do some squirrel hunting. Only I had forgot that it was closed on…
Fishing the Fox in the Wind and the Rain
You got the river, a relatively thin strip of shoreline, a bike path, sometimes a guard rail and the road. It goes on like this for a couple of miles,…
Up a Creek
For the second straight year, Field & Stream has partnered with Trout Unlimited on tours of America’s Best Wild Places. The Best Wild Places is a joint project and offers…
Some Days aren’t all that Exciting
This is a bastardized version of what I sent to Dale Bowman as a final follow up for his Wednesday fishing reports. Not much to say, not much to look…
I’m just about out of Words
That happens whenever I have to concentrate on finding work in a job market that chooses to ignore men over 50. Plenty of minimum wage offerings out there, up to…
Wild Asparagus, a Bridge, Beer and Leaf Burning
Who are you? Carnac? What does any of that have to do with fishing. Everything is related somehow. Sometimes you just have to wait awhile till they all catch up…
Like Clockwork, Goose Opening Day, October 15th
Everyday at 7:45 AM I drive the back roads through the Fox Valley to get to the main road to go to work. The corn and soybean fields have been…