Note to Self
Note to self and others... If you go out wandering around in the early spring... And you find the skull of a year old buck with the antlers, some hair…
Bugs, Bugs, Bugs, Carp!
I sat down with the intention of doing a nice little write up about bugs and carp and all kinds of stuff about fishing this time of year and deep…
From the Archives — June, 2008
Berry Picking
In the June issue of Heartland Outdoors Magazine, you can't read it on line, it's only in the print version, Gretchen Steele of Walkin' With the Wild Woman wrote an…
Speaking of Butterflies
I was out wandering the other day and stopped at a creek. The main goal was to see what kind of shape it was in after the recent rains. The…
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…
I was going fishing,
the fish would be there
On March 1st, the start of meteorological spring, winter decided to make an attempt to assert its presence. Something it had pretty much failed to do for the previous three…
Fish the Fox, it’s what I do.
And for the past 3 days I've been doing it fairly well. Clients continue to blow deadlines, which leaves me with nothing to do. That's a good thing. This time…
Music to Fish By
When I read about fishing I tend to read about trout fishing, even though there are no trout streams in Illinois and I don't fish for trout. The words of…
A Weekend of Fishing, for the Most Part
Since June 21st we've been losing about a minute a day of sunlight. Luckily it seems to be evenly split up between the sunrise and the sunset. Either way I'm…
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