“You working or fishing?” asked Peter at the check-in on Thursday night. It’s an increasingly blurry line, but a reasonable question because the last time I came to McMinnville, Tennessee, I was covering the 2015 Hardly, Strictly Musky tournament for Fly Rod & Reel magazine. Working, I guess. But not this time. I’d even left my camera […]
The tool need not be new, or heirloom, or trendy. It need only be right for the job. And the job must be a real one. Not an excuse to use the tool. In this case, the tool is snowshoes, and the job is hunting supper. Legs burning, steam pumping, heart working at a healthy-feeling […]
The first blizzard of the year. If the forecast holds, sounds like that’s what’s coming. A no-travel-advised, buy-extra-groceries-and-an-extra bottle-of-whiskey two-day blow. And just in time. It’s been another too-warm deer season. We’ve been wearing flannel instead of wool and hearing loons on the lake instead of ice-making rumbles, and if there’s deer around they’re staying […]