Caught Not Bought ~ Stone Crab Grilled Cheese

Everybody loves stone crabs but they’re so doggone expensive. I’ll let you in on a little secret… they’re not that hard to find. If you live near a bridge or a seawall you can go get your own really easily. For free. All you need is a mask, snorkel, flashlight, the willingness to stick your hand into a hole, and […]

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Wild Turkey and Dumplings

It’s still relatively early in the Florida spring turkey season in the north zone. Leading up to the season, I made several scouting trips up to the area I hunt in Lake City and had a decent idea of where the birds were. I took my son, Levi, up for the youth weekend and we left empty handed. The woods […]

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Seasons Change

Sometime around the end of September the season here in Florida begins to change and I personally put on a whole new game face. Casting platforms, fly rods, flies and micros take a backseat to tree stands, bows, guns and camo. The usual late night tarpon runs turn into early morning trips to the woods as tarpon season turns into […]

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Last Pass

  Somewhere between New Zealand and Mongolia lies Central Oregon.  Within the gin-like tributaries of the area are the trout that time left behind.  The bull trout is nothing more than a landlocked dollay varden char, that attain amazing size and take giant prey.  They come out of lakes or even larger river systems to spawn in the smaller tribs. […]

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Mass Unfriend/ Upriver

So I’ve been really turned off by Facebook lately. Really turned off. Can’t even look at it. Too much bitching about the worldly things that I just don’t care about. So I said to myself today, “I guess I wouldn’t mind it so much if I could actually tell people how I feel about what they are saying.” I’m a […]

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Quackers

I got invited to go on my first duck hunt this past weekend. I had been wanting to go for a while, so I jumped at the opportunity. I got my permits and stamps in line, and made plans to meet my buddies Nut and Brad over on the east coast on Friday night. After too many beers, we went […]

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