Fun with Wildlife
Wednesday turned out to be a stunningly beautiful day and I wound up getting an angler out on a guided trip to fish the Fox. He's an experienced angler, but…
What? What’d I do Wrong?
A few times a week I take a walk. I live a little over a half mile from the Yorkville dam and it's a nice hike there and back. Actually…
Felt a Little Naked out There
It's rare that I walk out of my house without my camera in my pocket. Rarer still is walking down a river without my camera hanging around my neck and…
Ya Gotta Love Her
At 56 years old, I consider myself very lucky to have my parents still alive and relatively healthy. The other day was my mom's 79th birthday. My sister had the…
When Fishing a Creek,
Don’t Step on a Goose Nest
On the second creek I decided to fish this day, I stayed in the water while fishing rather than walking up on shore. A flood a few years ago channeled…
Attack of the Killer Gnats
Yes, I know they're midges. If I would have used that word instead, everyone would think this had something to do with teenage girls from the early 60s named Midge…
Gobble, gobble, gobble…
Was out driving around the other day when a bunch of black specks out in a field, close to a tree line, caught my eye. Of course I had to…
A Little Premature
At 10 am this morning I went for a walk in the neighborhood. My wife saw some flowers growing on the side of a hill around the corner from where…
A Fishing Life Plan
The summer of 1996, I was driving out to the Fox River. I no longer recall why. I was 40 years old and had never fished a river before. I…