Of Men, Mentors and Muskellunge
Two men wandered into the Ontario Central Airways (OCA) office one afternoon while I was manning the front desk. How strange it was that I could instantly tell that they were used to being in charge. They wore short brown leather jackets and the standard issue khaki...
The Strange Saga of Henry Bauman
The place was called Boise City, which was something of a joke to anyone who had actually been there. It wasn’t even a town, much less a city—a few cleared fields around a dirt track where trappers and Indians pitched their teepees and caravans of covered wagons could...
Tarpon Fishing & Luxury Living in Boca Grande
This magnificent Boca Grande home features 6,207 feet of air-conditioned space and 150 feet of waterfront on Gasparilla Sound. Five high-ceilinged bedrooms and 5 1/2 baths offer luxurious personal space for your family and guests. A Wolf range with double oven,...
Sporting Classics TV Season 8 Episode 3 Trailer
Make sure you don't miss this week's episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey, as we visit a bucket-list destination for bird hunters for an epic quail hunt at South Carolina’s Almost Heaven Plantation. The series airs on Outdoor Channel on Monday at 12pm,...
The Boardman River Revisited: Busman’s Holiday on the Boardman
Twenty-five years had passed since I had gone fishing with the Smith brothers. Thirty years had passed since I had seen the Love Shack. I had never seen Oz. Jake was sleeping in his tent by the river. Chris was sleeping back home with his wife. I was sleeping with Oz...
We Fixed the Predator Problem So Thoroughly That Now We Have a Predator Problem
Somewhere off the coast of Florida right now, a mako is doing to a sailfish what a wood chipper does to a Christmas tree, and someone in the boat is filming it in vertical video for maximum emotional impact. This has become a genre unto itself. Scroll for ten minutes...
Autumn’s a Comin’
Fall begins in July. That’s when savvy hunters and anglers unlimber their guns and stout fly rods. Though it’s tee-shirt and golf-short weather throughout the lower 48, it’s time to freshen your swing on those crossing shots; forego the bench and practice shooting...
Night Fishing
As a boy learning to fly-fish for trout on the name branded freestone flows and limestone streams of Pennsylvania, fishing hours were strictly entrenched into my sporting ethics. No matter if fish were still sipping spinners, 30 minutes after sunset our flies were...
The Specter of Tiger Creek
After passing the winter on the plantation, we moved, in the spring, down to a house on the coast, where we spent the summer, safe from malaria and other swamp-fevers . . . It was there that we did our salt-water fishing, and there that we had this adventure with a...
Frank Young: An Angler for the Ages
As a trout fisherman, Frank was simply the best I have ever been privileged to witness in action, and I’ve been astream with the likes of Gary Borger and Lee Wulff.