Award winning fly tyer and Air Force veteran Mike George of Olathe, KS demonstrated his unique technique for working with deer hair for a small gathering of veterans at a Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing meeting Monday night. To learn more about Mike and his tying methods take a look at his web site www.deerhairsculptures.com …
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Yesterday was the second time I’ve caught a big channel catfish on a fly rod while bass fishing at Kill Creek Lake near DeSoto, KS. I knew immediately it wasn’t a big bass. Bass are close-in fighters. They like to slug it out up close and personal with lots of head-shaking top water acrobatics. Old …
Country music isn’t all that’s happening at Branson, Missouri. Water from Table Rock dam forms Lake Taneycomo which gets its name from Taney County, MO and provides miles and miles of some of the best trout fishing in the state. If you enjoy fishing from a boat you’ll hope for lots of power generation from …
It took until the last weekend of the Missouri early teal season but the little bastards finally got here. After several sweaty and unproductive teal hunts my partner Bob Ritter finally saw something to swat at besides mosquitos. Below: Bob’s Lab Pearl retrieves a blue wing teal.
Project Healing Waters veterans fishing with Capt. Rick Lisek out of Lilley’s Landing recently caught and released several beautiful rainbows and browns at Lake Taneycomo.
As explained earlier, a Tweener is a cartoon that’s too raunchy for outdoor publications but too outdoorsy for Playboy. It’s in between. This one was close, but maybe it brought back unpleasant memories for the editors. If you’ve ever had a 100 pound Labrador retriever fall in love with your leg on a cold morning …
One of the most creative guys I’ve ever known, my good friend and long time fishing partner Larry Bowser passed away recently. Larry was one of the first people I met at Hallmark when I went to work there in 1960. We fished together from 1960 until the last few years when Larry’s health deteriorated. …
My story Duck Math, published in Delta Waterfowl magazine, took first place in the Magazine Contest: Humor Category of the 2013 Outdoor Writers Association of America Excellence In Craft contests. Two of my cartoons from Wildfowl magazine took first and second place in the Illustration/Graphic contest.
Once again it’s Tweener Time. Tweeners are those cartoons too raunchy for outdoor publications but to outdoorsy for Playboy. Catfishermen with stink bait have nothing on bow hunters, who use a variety of smelly substances to mask their own odor. Raccoon urine was in vogue for a while but you don’t hear much about it …
Representing the Heart Of America Fly Fishers, Mark Borserine and I sat in with a couple of other fly tiers at the Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing meeting Tuesday night. PHWFF is an organization that helps wounded service men and women get into all aspects of fly fishing from rod building and fly tying to …
