Perfect Colorado weather for a last jaunt across the short grass prairie in search of scaled quail. Bitter-sweetness…the company was grand and the dogs grander! Plans are drawn and dog purchases are being made for the coming fall! I can hardly wait! Idaho for 2 weeks for certain! Pray for the perfect weather conditions and…
Month: January 2012
Season’s End
The season is winding down…tomorrow is the last day for me and the bird dogs to go out and chase birds. Birds of course being quail. We have had a great season and have piles of memories to hold us over the next seven months til it’s time to be back in the grouse woods….
THE BROWN DRAKE HATCH THAT DOESN’T EXIST
My first book, Heaven on Earth: Stories of Fly Fishing, Fun & Faith as originally written was much longer than the final form. There were numerous stories that I loved that were cut out for various reasons. To help promote my book and to give you the flavor of my writing style, I thought I…
A Slack Wind
We had reached the point in our hunt where I was ready to call it a day and head back to the truck birdless when Abby did a most remarkable thing, she disappeared over a rise and then came back with her eyes wide and tail wagging. I had seen that look before and knew…
ADVANCED SIGNED COPIES OF ANDREW MARSHALL WAYMENT’S BOOK, HEAVEN ON EARTH, ARE NOW AVAILABLE
Andrew Marshall Wayment’s first book, Heaven on Earth: Stories of Fly Fishing, Fun & Faith. It’s finally done! I have mentioned my forthcoming book, Heaven on Earth, on this blog numerous times in the past and I am happy to report that it’s finished. and I am thrilled about how it turned out. Although the…
BEN FRANKLIN: KID FISHERMAN AND PUBLIC SERVANT
My wife and I just had our sixth (and last) child, whom we named, Benjamin, after the great Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of our nation and one of my personal heroes because of his crucial role in the Revolutionary War and in the Constitutional Convention. I decided to learn a little more…
Rookie Mistakes
Glenn and I went to Kansas last weekend to see first hand the hype of how bad the quail season really is in central Kansas…the heart of gentleman country. While loading my dog box into the bed of Glenn’s nice Ford pickup, I left my tattered ol’ Sharp-tail boots at the side of the Tacoma…rookie…
Eleventh Hour Reprieve
This story was supposed to be something entirely different. I had already written it in my mind and it was to be about how on the last day of 2011 I went out to a new, uncharted hunting spot and capped off the year with glorious success. Instead, it was almost the story about how…
Upland Ways 