Kansas Bow Season, Day 2: On Sunday night one small eight pointer cruised in from upwind and, boy, was he headed somewhere. I moved quite a bit to draw, until I decided not to shoot but he didn’t care. He just stiff legged it right on through.Day 3: No turkeys, coyotes or geese. Same little …
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Hunting With My Son
Another great day in the woods came to a close this evening. I went deer hunting… again, with my son Steve and a couple of friends. We started off in the middle of a mile section, surrounded mostly by cedar trees. If you have ever hunted amongst the cedars, you’ll know what I mean when …
My First Hunting Camp
When I was about sixteen years old, my dad took my older brother Karl and I deer hunting in the Kiamichi Mountains of southeastern Oklahoma. My mom worked as the high school principal’s secretary, so being allowed to skip school for such an outing was pretty easy as I never had to do the asking. …
Don’t let your friends get away
I went fishing the other day. I took Marlan and Gary with me as they are two very good fishing buddies, and it was the least I could do. We fished the trout pit south of McCune, Kansas, and had a blast. Now by blast I mean we caught fish, of course, but more than …
My fishing sin
Once in a while a man does something that, at the time, seems perfectly harmless. Then in retrospect he realizes the extent of the damage caused by that now not so innocent act. I have fished five times in the last two weeks and have only a crappie and three trout to show for it. …
A funeral
I went to a funeral today. It was not a normal funeral, as one would think of as normal, but rather something like I had never experienced before. This man was a veteran of the Vietnam War. He was just ten years older than I and had passed away in a nursing home. I was …
A Family Deer Hunt
The phone call came just after dark one evening. The voice on the other end was a familiar one saying he had a little boy that wanted to tell me something. It was the special Kansas youth Deer season and I knew what was coming. A few seconds later I heard the excited voice of …
I am my dad
Driving over the creek bridge near the park in Parsons the other day I noticed a deeper flow of water since the rains. I made the comment that I have always felt the urge to fish that stretch of creek as there surely ought to be some fish in it. My wife agreed wholeheartedly that …
My First Blog Post
Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.
Introduce Yourself (Example Post)
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Of Fishing and Family 