Fly Tying and Fishing Show
I've been remiss in mentioning this and it's coming up this weekend, Saturday, January 21, 2012 from 9 A.M to 4:30 P.M. The Illinois Smallmouth Alliance is putting on a…
The Smallmouth Brook Trout Bass
As far as I can tell, the rivers and streams where trout live flow through all of the states in the U.S. except for Illinois. Which is where I live.…
A Drive Down Memory Lane
The first week of September I purposely decided to take myself out of the loop. I let my writing drop off. I decided for the rest of the year I…
My Adoring Fans and the Death of Outdoor Writing on the Internet
It all started with what I thought was a semi-humorous, tongue-in-cheek post about Night Fishing for Walleye. Those who know me personally got it right away, those who don't took…
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…
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…