Fruitful Blessing – Dispatch

Fruitful Blessing – Dispatch

My boss, Sporting Classics’ Editorial Director, Scott E. Mayer, had inquired about us going fishing on a Friday after work, a few weeks back. He added that we would be doing so at a pond located in the backyard of our Publisher, Duncan Grant. I humbly accepted....
Mysteries on the Water’s Edge – The Creek

Mysteries on the Water’s Edge – The Creek

Even the smallest stream, skinny enough to step across, carries unsolved mysteries on the water’s edge, drawing adventurous young’uns.   I grew up in the heart of South Carolina. Halfway between the Upcountry and the Lowcountry. Right on the fall line, where...
SEWE 2022: Celebrating 40 Years

SEWE 2022: Celebrating 40 Years

Tickets will go on sale October 9th for SEWE 2022, which will be held February 17-20 After canceling its event in 2021, Southeastern Wildlife Exposition (SEWE), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, will return next year to celebrate 40 years in 2022, February 17...
Old Man and the Sea – Ted Schnack

Old Man and the Sea – Ted Schnack

Ted Schnack discusses his sculpture inspired by Hemingway’s Old Man and the Sea Literary Immortality. Countless writers and artists have graced the centuries, yet few and rare are those who create works so powerful they are considered true classic.  True...
Best Deal for Wildlife? Buy a License.

Best Deal for Wildlife? Buy a License.

Often overlooked in the rush of fall hunting seasons is how hunting and fishing licenses help fund wildlife work. In Georgia, each license sold – even a one-day $5 combo – returns to the state that license fee plus as much as $45 in federal excise taxes paid by...
A Dorsey-style Family Vacation in the Amazon

A Dorsey-style Family Vacation in the Amazon

Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey wrestles with river monsters from the southern hemisphere. Officials from Dorsey Pictures announce that this week’s episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey – the most watched outdoor TV program in the world – features a...
Rendezvous with a King

Rendezvous with a King

The ocean was like a piece of glass as we glided past the familiar black-and-white-spiraled St. Augustine lighthouse a mile or so off to our starboard side. Heading out into the great unknown on a muggy June morning, I couldn’t help but think of my grandmother’s...
The Intruder

The Intruder

It wasn’t much as waters go — probably a couple acres at best.  I’d passed by it many times always on the way to somewhere else.  It lay a few hundred yards off the road, nestled up against the back edge of the old cemetery.  I suppose to most people it would be a...