>Regardless of weather, any day spent afield is better than work! It’s a pleasure and privilege for us to be able to get out and live nature! Yesterday I did just that on the South Platte River. My advice…get out and enjoy life!
Stalking the Will O’ the Whisp.
My apologies for not having written posts for a few weeks – but things have been somewhat busy here of late. Not least – because the best of the Roe Buck stalking has now arrived with us. The months of May and June – with warm, ( usually) weather, and a surge of growth in…
I SUFFER FROM "TROUT MADNESS"
My brother Shawn recently teased me about being addicted to fly-fishing (See Shawn’s recent post at http://www.birddogdocschronicles.blogspot.com). I must admit that his accusation is entirely true . . . I am a hopeless addict! Not an hour goes by, where I do not think about rivers and fishing. The sickness is called “Trout Madness.” How…
>Havilah’s November Health Program
>If you haven’t ever read any of Havilah Babcock’s stories, you should include them on your bucket list! He was a master storyteller and professor of English by trade–eventually the head of the English Department at the University of South Carolina. Havilah was a transplant to South Carolina by way of Virginia…which suited him well…
RAMBO THE RAINBOW
One of the contributors to Upland Equations, Scolopax, recently sent me a generous gift: Hemingway on Fishing. I have greatly enjoyed reading this famous author’s writing about one of my favorite subjects (Thanks Scolopax!). Tonight as I was reading Hemingway’s “The Best Rainbow Trout Fishing,” I appreciated the following account: We decided on a McGinty…
INSTANT KARMA
Of my 30 plus years of frequent fishing, I have hooked and tormented many a fish, but until this past weekend, I had never hooked anybody or never been hooked. I guess my luck was bound to run out sometime. (For those of you who are a bit squeamish, you may want to stop reading…
DO A GOOD DEED DAILY
The other day a family from church was moving and needed some help loading up their truck. My daughters and I decided to go over and help them even though the rain was pouring down. As we moved various items of furniture and exercise equipment, we set aside in their garage all of the things…
>Waiting on Chickens
>It’s always coldest just before the chickens arrive…behold, a slice of lesser prairie chicken heaven somewhere in southern Kansas sand sage country. Unfortunately, this 40,000 acre ranch was recently lost due to the economy. I just hope that the new owners are stewards of the chickens on their land as the previous tenants were.
Rim’s Semblance # 2
Ask any fly fisherman in Colorado what fly consistently produces fish, and you’ll hear repeatedly the RS2…created by a heck of a fly fisherman and a real gentleman…Rim Chung. The RS2 resembles an emerging Mayfly, and I’ve been lucky enough to fish with Rim and see it work in the hands of its creator. Rim…
>Grandson, Great Reads and Awaited Painful Anticipation
>Yesterday I was in the office examining a client’s nice setter-dogs and getting them ready for the up and coming bird dog season. The first thing out of his mouth as I entered the exam room was “Only 90 more days”…that exact thought occupied my mind yesterday (01 June 2009) as I bounced into work!…
NATURE’S PERFECT ORDER AND A BOY’S INALIENABLE RIGHT
I have recently acquired and read as many of Burton’s Spiller’s books as I can find. He is undoubtably one of the finest sporting writers that ever put the pen to the page. His books, Grouse Feathers, More Grouse Feathers, Drummer in the Woods, and Fishin’ Around are some of my all-time favorites. In the…
Upland Ways 