I got a Facebook message yesterday from Fred Hand, the father of a girl I used to date in high school. “I still think of you often and still consider you a good friend,” he wrote, and I would have to agree with him. However, as common law said it …
“UFOs” may be a stretch, and that’s just because the unidentified object wasn’t flying. What was flying, however, was a group of turkeys after being chased by a coyote. I saw the scene a couple days ago while hunting outside of Louisville. A group of turkeys were feeding in a field, …
“So how did the 6-year old do?” I was asked repeatedly after a hunt I had last weekend with youngster Nolan Johnson and his dad Rich. Yet quite often when I was asked by various folks, there seemed to be an undercurrent of skepticism regarding their query. “Great,” I answered …
In the May edition of NEBRASKAland Magazine is an article I wrote entitled “Tales of an Esox- the unnatural history of the northern pike.” Like with every story, NEBRASKAland’s writers and photographers submit text to editor Doug Carroll and photos (also known as illustration) to art director Tim Reigert. We don’t submit …
Before I deleted it, my initial attempt at this blog (with the same title) was 1,126 words. Yet I felt I was being boring, repetitive, and very, very, very long worded. This attempt I will try to at least work on my second and third issue while you judge the …
It’s easy for folks who have lived in a region their entire lives to take what they have for granted. Minnesota’s got better fishing, South Dakota has better pheasant hunting, and Colorado has better big game hunting, I’ve heard Nebraska lifers say. Are these points true? I don’t know, for …
A quest for fun. That was what Clark W. Griswold told his family their trip to Wally World had become. And yesterday, I was in the same boat. Well, at least for a few seconds I was in a boat. I had just finished photographing Commission fisheries biologists Jeff Schuckman …
I don’t have a 6-year old child, and I’ve never spent an entire day with anyone of that age. I also never been asked if ever fished for dolphins or ever been attacked by a turkey. However all of these topics, and those similar to them, were brought up by …
I’ve done some disgusting things in my life including, but definitely not limited to, pulling dorm room floor remnants from inside my pet hamster’s cheeks, sweating myself to an obese man on a tight, and very hot airplane ride, and covering my face with mud while crawling toward a group …
It is a question I have asked myself many times since, just after Thanksgiving dinner, I was informed by CNN that he had mistakenly assumed a fire hydrant near his home was made of plastic. Since that moment, I have been repeatedly bombarded by who he has had affairs with …
