Columns
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Northern Pike: Love or hate?
Before we get full time into outdoor columns about hunting, let me do a final end-of-summer column about fishing.
Time for change
Were you surprised? Or were you prepared?
A place preserved for the sandhill cranes
September rode the thermals into October on warm wings under fair skies.
October Fishing
As we move deeper into autumn, with rapidly dropping water temperatures and much shorter daylight hours, the evidence of our changing world surrounds us, quite visually in fact.
Opening day is nearly here!
The biggest day of hunting season is a little more than two weeks away
Think water, drink water
Think water, drink water
Busy household is about to get quiet again
The last two months have been a blur because my younger daughter and soon-to-be 5-year-old granddaughter — plus their two large Akitas — have been staying with us while my son-in-law hauled all their belongings to …
Considering lead ammunition
Many of you probably get and read FWP’s Montana Outdoors magazine. It is a great little magazine that is dirt cheap.
My kind of heaven
Having lost two family members in less than six months recently, (my mother and oldest brother) naturally, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about death.
No time for tomfoolery
While I was checking into a hotel a few weeks ago, I had to chuckle to myself at the front-desk clerk.
If it’s Tuesday it must be poblanos
Those who know me well know one of my summer pastimes is roasting peppers — lots of peppers.
Pulling the plug on satellite TV
Lynnette column
Fall hunts require ‘bear aware’ vigilence
Fall is in the air. As I write this column on Sunday morning, it is 39 degrees at my cabin. Not exactly a mid-summer morning temperature.
To Zoom or not to Zoom
A couple of weeks ago my high school senior class had a reunion — a Zoom reunion.
A tale of two Bobs, and a party for the ages
Bev Braig called me last week to ask about an article about her husband’s birthday that was published in the Inter Lake 40 years ago when her husband Bob turned 40. This was no regular birthday celebration in 1980.…
Dock sitting a favored summer past time
It’s mid-August and summer is winding down. For those of you that know me, I am usually searching for that elusive trophy rainbow trout or some good-eating kokanee salmon at this time of year.