Field Journal

My Introduction to the Fishing LifestyleI’ve been fishing since I could walk. I still have a photo of my first fish from my grandparents’ backyard on Lake Hamilton in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Some say f

I’ve always enjoyed hunting turkeys, but it’s never been close to my love for hunting whitetails and ducks. Maybe that’s because when I played ball, our season was always ramping up just in time to co

Top Row: (left to right) Command Sergeant Major (Retired) Mike Hack, Colonel (Retired) Art Kandarian, Command Sergeant Major (Retired) Dennis Smith, Command Sergeant Major (Retired) John Brady; Bot

Jeff Lawson (Private Lands Biologist for the AGFC) contacted me last week and asked if I could help do some wood duck banding in southern Calhoun County. His quota for the year was to band 100 woo

It all started when my college classes switched to online because of coronavirus and I knew this year was an opportunity to point my wheels west to chase those elusive, bugling bull elk. After spend