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Ducks on the Dole
It’s said that you should be prudent about what you wish for, because you might get it. Then again, one man’s disaster can be another’s opportunity. […]
September 2011
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AJs on the Fly
Here’s a short history of the evolution of fishermen.
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Camping for Rainbows
Mention trout fishing in South Carolina and many people will think of speckled seatrout, oyster beds and marsh grass. Seldom thought about are rainbow, brown, and brook trout in a mountain wilderness setting. […]
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For the Love of the Dove
In the beginning, Louis Batson III was his dad’s designated retriever in the dove field — a 5-year-old boy scrambling through corn stalks to pick up birds brought down by the blast of his father’s humpback Browning 12-gauge. […]
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Going Primitive
There is something mystical about the feel of a good primitive bow. It seems to come alive in the archer’s hands. Light, responsive and, when shot instinctively, they are very quick-handling. […]
Currents
Let Mother Nature get on with her handiwork
The little municipal lake in my hometown is undergoing a tremendous drawdown this year, from 365 to 88 acres, as the local utilities commission puts in a new dam and prepares to put the wrecking ball to the existing one, which was built 100 years ago and is starting to, er, um, leak. […]
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Dove-Day Afternoon
The gray, feathered missile bobbed and weaved, riding the afternoon breeze as several loads of No. 8 lead shot narrowly missed making contact and sending it tumbling to the ground. […]
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2011-12 Game Lands Forecast
North Carolina has two million acres of public hunting lands on 89 game lands that dot the landscape from the ocean to the western border, a distance of approximately 500 miles. […]
Bass Fishing
Think Small(mouth)
Last July, when West Jefferson’s Ben Lucas and I glimpsed the deep-water ledge 50 yards downstream from us on the South Fork of the New River, we knew exactly how to double-team it. […]