Happy birthday to my very best friend! Hope it’s a great day brother! Here’s the link to Andy’s awesome interview with Nick Larson. I’m very excited about Andy’s book coming out next month. Yes…he’s my brother, but I’ve read the manuscript and it’s great grouse literature. Can’t wait to have the book in my hand!…
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POOR MAN’S BONEFISH
Most of my life I considered the common carp as a trash fish. I figured the namer of this undesirable fish mixed up the “a” and the “r” rendering it “carp” instead of “crap.” I remembered a time when my brother Scotty and I were fishing on the Bear River below our home near Preston, Idaho when…
Orvis Hunting Podcast w/ Reid Bryant
I was recently a guest of the Orvis Hunting podcast with Reid Bryant. You can find the Orvis podcast on iTunes Podcasts. It was an honor to be on with Reid. Enjoy the summer and bring on the Fall! Setter Feathers….
Double Guns and Colorado Merriam’s Turkeys
It was a strange year in the Colorado high country turkey woods. There was very little snow in the high country, so I expected the birds to arrive to their lek earlier than years past. So not true! I learn this year that the birds follow the green-up and not necessarily the snow melt. The…
PREORDER A SIGNED COPY OF IDAHO RUFFED GROUSE HUNTING: THE HEARTBEAT OF THE WOODS
As many of you already know, I am a ruffed grouse fanatic and love the excellent literature on grouse and grouse hunting. My favorite grouse hunting authors are Burton Spiller, Grampa Grouse, and George King, but there are so many others that have written wonderful books on the subject. For a long time, I have hoped to contribute something worthwhile…
PRAYERS FOR RAIN
“He sendeth rain on the just and the unjust.” Matthew 5: 45. Let’s get something straight from the outset: My pup’s name is Rainey with an “E” not just a “Y” like the weather. Admittedly, my first two Brittanys were Sunny (Upland Autumn Sunshine) and Misty (Misty Morning Sunrise) after certain aspects of the weather,…
Sorta-double at Grouse Rock: A Continuation of Day Four in the Idaho Uplands & a Scaled Quail Pictorial Saga
A wise man once stated that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results. After hunting the Windy Mills covert on Wednesday, we decided to drive over to Grouse Rock in search of Ron and Andy’s favorite game bird—the ruffed grouse. (I know…they’re both nuts…what more can I…
LOVE, LOSS & REPEAT: DAYS ONE AND TWO OF OUR IDAHO HUNT
Nature’s first green is gold Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. –Robert Frost, “Nothing Gold Can Stay” Starting on Saturday, October 21, 2017, the Wayment Brothers…
Colorado Mountain Merriam’s Turkeys
One of my favorite outdoor pursuits is chasing turkeys in the high country during their spring breeding season. Merriam’s are Colorado natives and they inhabit some beautiful country…country that also has my greenbacks, another Coloradoan. It’s taken me 12 years of trial and error (& being schooled) but I now know where they’ll be during…
RAINEY CREEK RUFF
As a follow up to my last post, I wanted to give you an update on my search for a puppy. I decided early on that I wanted to get another Epagneul Breton (French Brittany), which was Sunny Girl’s breed. In short, I want a dog that hunts like a demon in the field and acts like an…
DREAMIN’ ABOUT BIRD DOGS
It has been a while since I last posted. One of the major reasons is the tragic passing of Misty on March 18, 2017. Throughout her whole life, Misty was an escape artist who loved to get out of the house and run wild. I feared this deviant tendency might catch up with her. Since the pain…
Canine Hip Dysplasia and PennHip
Ron Boehme, the host of the awesome Hunting Dog Podcast, asked if I ‘d contribute some veterinary specific advice to his Blog on the Hunting Dog Podcast…which I gladly accepted the challenge. Here’s the link to my latest contribution http://thehuntingdogpodcast.com/2017/04/canine-hip-dysplasia-and-pennhip/. Spring turkeys here we come! The caddis are hatching on the Ark as well. Setter…
Upland Ways 