Note:  Here is another of my early illustrated articles for the River Hills Traveler.  The illustration was one of my favorites.  I've h...

Many years ago, when I was a very young adult, I belonged to a local bass fishing club.  This was in the early days of bass fishing tourname...

Note:   I graduated from college in the spring of 1976, and got a job teaching art that same fall. At the time I was living in Jackson, MO, ...

A post asking for recommendations on a canoe prompted me to write this. I've been paddling canoes on Ozark streams (and elsewhere) s...

A recent post on Facebook asking to identify a salamander got me curious as to the difference between salamanders and newts, and a little r...

Growing up in the Missouri Ozarks and being from a family of avid anglers, I learned the names of common fish early on...or at least the Oz...

Home Waters On a fine Saturday afternoon in late April the year of my tenth birthday, I left my house with fishing rod and sma...