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...
I am a confirmed cynic when it comes to supernatural and paranormal malarkey. However… It began innocently enough, as such things often do I suppose. Tom Davis, a contributing editor to this magazine, called me about taking over an article he was unable to do, a...
But my thinking was clear enough until I saw the big creature turn slowly away from the boat and come toward me through the dark water. 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...
As I watched, my resentment began to leave and I knew that, whatever the reason for his coming in, it must have been very important. While casting the long riffle below the pool, I became aware that I was not alone, that someone was there on the river with me. It...
The bets we had made put my much-needed expense money at serious risk. Since I had the responsibility of managing the canoe and could only cast while it was drifting freely, I was at a considerable disadvantage. You had to admire Jack Fincassel. He was the hardest...
A Springtime Staple: Redfish Filets with Lemon Tabasco Butter Spring is in the air and that means fishing season is in full swing here in the lowcountry. A South Carolina staple, Redfish are an incredibly fun species to catch and also make for delicious table fare....
Memorable Quotes Over the Years A collection printed in the 1996 issue of Sporting Classics The streams that hold trout are filled with spirits. They are filled with magic that will stay as long as someone comes to feel it. When we come upon old gear that has been...
Mike Stidham, the critically acclaimed, self-taught artist, paints fishscapes. One summer evening a year ago, Mike Stidham left his studio and drove a few miles to a heavily fished stretch of the Provo River where it spills out of the Wasatch Mountains through the...
Sporting Classics Attends 2022 Game & Field Fair On the weekend of April 1, Sporting Classics traveled to the mountainous region of Adairsville, Georgia, for the Game & Field Fair sponsored by The Pepi Family Studios and High Adventure Company on the Beretta...
Hunters and anglers are particularly vulnerable to these fiery sky wires. Around 6 a.m. on Sunday, November 5, 2017, Curtis Atkins and one of his hunting buddies sat in their truck near Zanesville, Ohio, debating whether to hunt. Skies had been variably cloudy during...
