The Good Life
Crisp, clear air and cold water are the sources of life. It is a life implemented with guns and flyrods, populated by beautiful birds and dogs and fish stippled with rose-moles bright as neon. It is a life of vast grassy space where dogs can run to their heart's...
Zane Grey – High Seas Prophet
So what can we say of Zane Grey, this dentist turned novelist turned outdoor writer? He was a dentist and photography and a storyteller. He was one hell of a baseball player. He was husband and father and perpetual wanderer and a hunter and fisherman who once held...
Tigers In the Surf
Angry breakers guarded the Devil's Elbow of Padre Island's wild and remote beaches. Watch out, others had warned us, or the surf will eat you alive. Billy Sandifer, a three-tour veteran of Vietnam and now a surf-fishing guide, faced the roaring whitecaps and didn't...
The Romance of Brandywine
The men and women who studied under Howard Pyle all but dominated American illustration during the first half of the 20th century. At the beginning of the 20th century, Howard Pyle of Wilmington, Delaware, was most popular illustrator in America. He had only one...
The Whisper in the Grey of Morning
“I Knew your son. Something I been needing to tell you . . . Luke saved me — you know, saved my life. He saved us all.” America had been attacked with a murderous sucker punch. That day of infamy stirring the deep soul of a patriotic nation.Lines of young men eager...
Where the Sporting Life Lives
Where the Sporting Life Lives Brays Island, located in the heart of the South Carolina Lowcountry, is a sporting community with a unique history, dedicated to preservation and a love for life outdoors. SPONSORED CONTENT: Brays Island is a sporting enthusiast’s dream...
Call Time and Casting Call Win National Awards
The 14,000-member Non-Fiction Author’s Association bestowed Gold Awards for Chris Dorsey’s wingshooting book Call Time and fly-fishing book Casting Call. Call Time was also nominated for the coveted Ben Franklin Award among a field of 1,900 entries from the...
Gathered Rocks Placed Around and Over
Ben shouted the Indian's name until his throat became raw. Much later, on the far side of the camp in rock shadows, he found a note held down and partially hidden by rock. Ben Choat, the lean, dark-skinned river guide, met the old Indian at the railing entrance of the...
Gilled Glutton – Weird Wildlife Weekly
Gilled glutton leaves anglers scratching their heads after a pike was found dead with a zander — a fish of similar size — jammed in its mouth in the Netherlands. While in his boat doing some work by the jetty near his home, Rene Spaargaren, from Almere near Amsterdam,...
Deep Feelings
In many ways John Hamberger was more an impressionistic artist than a painter of fish portraits. On the vintage plaster of the kitchen wall, left of the table where winter window light refracts through a collection of old pop bottles, is taped a snapshot of a man...