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...
Cusp of Summer On a Carolina Day
There is nothing more apt to illustrate life than a stilt house hovering over water set to the rhythm of a spring tide. A friend of my granddad's used to sit on our porch in a wicker rocking chair and watch the creek go by. That creek is part of the Elizabeth River...
B.A.S.S. Founder Ray Scott, The Father of Modern Bass Fishing, Has Died
B.A.S.S. Founder Ray Scott, The Father of Modern Bass Fishing, Has Died Sadly, I learned of the passing of my friend, Ray Scott. Like everyone else, for years I’d seen his “showmanship side” on TV. But it wasn’t until the mid 1990s, after I attended a Bassmasters...
Places to Be Sensed and Senses to Be Placed
Here's the portfolio; look what's inside. People are known for doing the one thing at which they are best. That's what we were telling the artist one afternoon in his studio with the window as big as The Ritz. There are well-known western artists and wildlife artists...
Beyond the Boundaries
"But there was something there — a different kind of contemporary realism." Imagine for a moment that you and I are with artist Adriano Manocchia, relaxing on Adirondack chairs under the eave of the porch at his house in Cambridge, New York, a double haul from the...
Dead Fish Tell No Lies
To think that this box might hold Harry's legendary Atlantic salmon was too much for the club members to bear. Postmortem jurisprudence. I believe that’s what they call it. This "executor of a will" responsibility is indeed an objectionable bit of business. "Damn it,...