Stage for Stories – A Paean to Porches

Stage for Stories – A Paean to Porches

Porches were a place where you could be at peace with the world…a stage for stories. In yesteryear one of many blessings, what folks living in my native heath, the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, tended to take for granted was that they could enjoy their...
Steelhead Fishing in Ohio? Good News.

Steelhead Fishing in Ohio? Good News.

Ohio’s steelhead trout fishing is heating up now that colder weather is incoming, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. November through March provides peak action for anglers pursuing northeast Ohio’s silver bullets. Six...
Fishing Guide – My Short, Brilliant Career

Fishing Guide – My Short, Brilliant Career

The novelist John Gardner posited that there are really only two stories: A man goes on a journey, or a stranger comes to town. With all due respect to Gardner’s memory, however, I’d like to add a third: The telephone rings, and you answer it.  The caller identified...
Something for the First Time

Something for the First Time

A fella posed a question the other day that caused me pause…  He asked, “When’s the last time you did something for the first time?”  Not when’s the last time you did something again for the first time in a long time. But the last time you did something for...
Transported into the Wild Light

Transported into the Wild Light

Painter Rod Crossman, considered one of the greatest sporting artists of our time, connects us to holy outdoor places that span generations. This is how we are transported into the wildlight.  Think about your greatest fishing memory, the one that, like a fine...
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. What a...
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 – 20...
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...