FALL 2026 ISSUE  The Fall Issue of The Lightnin' Ridge Outdoor Journal will come back from the printers this week and will be sent out...

  Flathead catfish we caught on a trotline        Trotlines are productive, and they are enjoyable this time of year when the heat makes nig...

  Joe Smith ????         It was a nice little cove with clear water, and it looked to be a good place to fish a topwater lure, late in the e...

  Squirrel in our bluebird house          When I was a boy we had a fellow back home in the hills that had two big teeth that stuck out in f...

           Today I love to watch both gray and fox squirrels from my porch, and there is one tree just a ways from my office where baby gray...

         The crawdad, or crayfish, is an unusual creature, always looking back where he has been, and going where his isn’t looking.  Quite...

                                                              Large Camouflaged copperhead Rufous Still must have been in his late sixties ...