Stanchions

I just returned from Texas. I make a few trips there each year now. I get to hang out with some incredible guys. Some I’ve known for years, and some I meet for the first time. This last event was around a golf weekend. I don’t play golf any longer, but I, along with a...

Deadly Reactions

There’s nothing like the sound of a gobble at daylight. If you’re close enough, it seems that it reverberates throughout the hollows and ridges. It will truly make you wide awake like nothing else. The method most of us use to cause a tom to gobble is by using some...

Adapt

The turkeys are gobbling the woods down. Their call is one of the most recognizable in all of nature. Whether one is a turkey hunter or not, everyone knows this familiar sound. And even though a tom turkey will gobble the entire year, he is especially vocal during the...

Truth and Tradition

In my area flea markets are more popular than the mall. On any given Saturday or Sunday cars and trucks will line the highways. They are full of people who are willing to walk down dimly lit paths where vendors sell everything from hamburgers to hardware. The prices...

The Draw

   I hadn’t been to Lake Weiss in nearly twenty years. My memories there were always fond experiences. And the lure was always big crappie. Jonathon and I decided to meet there and spend some time hanging out and hopefully bringing home large messes of fish...