Even Zombies Get the Fishing Blues
My daughter and I have a running joke about Zombies and the coming Zombie Apocalypse. So I shouldn't have been surprised when she gave me a Christmas gift. A calendar.…
North Zone Waterfowl – Ducks Done but There’s Still Geese
Wrote this on December 10th and never did anything with it… _______ Some waterfowl observations. For the first couple of weeks of the waterfowl season, it sounded like a war…
Possum, It’s What’s for Dinner
Took a drive along a little used creek road today and while rounding a bend, spotted a hawk chowing down on a possum. Even on a little used road, sitting…
Even a Deer Enjoys a Good Cuban Now and Then
For well over a dozen years while out cruising the internet, I've been using the same picture of a cute smiling me when I was four years old as an…
And That’s Why I Fish
We fishermen, I think, are lucky. Our sport can take us back to the fundamentals, back to the shallow waters where we first wet our feet, back even to those…
The Neighborhood Crazy Old Squirrel Guy goes Fishing
There are about a dozen squirrels that hang around the neighborhood, about half a dozen of which have become trained to being fed peanuts, all the time. Every time I…
What Doesn’t Kill Ya…
For the past couple of weeks, my back has been twinging. On a pain scale of 1 to 10, it's always at a number five, something I've got used to…
Strolling and Fishing
I guess it could be considered a hike since it's over a half mile of walking through this. And this is the easy part. For now, I have it all…
A Walk in the Neighborhood
Living on the edge of town, on the edge of civilization by Chicago standards, I usually hop in the car and drive for 10 or so minutes to the west…