Dennis Whiteside with hard-fighting smallmouth       We first fished together fifty-some years ago, when we were teenagers in college....

       I spent a few days   on Truman Lake  a  couple of weeks ago  living on my camp-boat. It is a hard-topped pontoon boat, cu...

  Katie Richardson and me            It was one of the most beautiful smallmouth i ever saw… a deep chocolate brown, with a bulging...

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         Carcasses and guts, flies and buzzards... a popular launching ramp that stinks all summer. Corps of Engineers apparently ca...

A seven bearded gobbler          I guess in most ways he was an easy gobbler. I can’t say there haven’t been many,...

         Next week, I am going to spend several nights on some lake in my camp-boat and hunt turkeys.   I intend to...