The 2013 Herman Lucerne Memorial Backcountry Fishing Championship

I first learned of the Herman Lucerne Memorial  about three and a half years ago. It was during the wee hours of a Monday night. Or a Tuesday morning depending on which side of the sleep cycle you may have been on.   I was shivering at the bottom of a January cold front in my tiny radiatorless room, in […]

Manipulating Variables

““When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”  – John Muir   Imagine stocking one of the largest lakes on the planet, already lush with life adapted to its unique habitats, with an invasive eating machine capable of reaching more than 300lb.   Couple that with a surrounding population of […]