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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.
Entering the rut
Hunting season is entering the best two weeks of this deer and elk hunting season. Many veteran hunters have spent lots of time afield for the last several weeks, but have been reluctant to pull the trigger on any …
Face to face with Facebook
Social media fans may have a bone to pick with me after reading this column about their daily penchant to peruse online posts.
Still 'Golden' after all these years
After a recent stressful day, one of the millennial staffers in the newsroom said all she wanted to do was go home, curl up and watch “The Golden Girls.”
Chop wood, carry water
The small ivory figurine that stands on a windowsill in my living room was given to me by a friend way back in high school, which makes our relationship — with both my girlfriend and the figurine — older than the o…
Pumpkin spice belongs in pie
After years of listening to co-workers, friends and pretty much all of America gush about pumpkin spice, I finally took the plunge this week and ordered my fir…
You say Marano? I still say Marino
My brother-in-law John rented an apartment in September in the town of Giulianova near Pescara on the Adriatic coast of central Italy — the vicinity of his family’s paternal grandparents’ birthplace.
Turnover times...
When we hear the word turnover, especially in the fall, it usually means someone coughed up the ball.
Runic inscriptions: ancient Post-it notes
Traveling through Norway was so much more wonderful than I ever imagined it would be, and it’s difficult to articulate exactly why.
Don't spare the spare keys
Technology has given us magnetic keys, key cards, keyless entry remotes, smart keys, and chip keys — also called transponder keys or, in more common vernacular, fobs.
The best time of the year is finally here
Ahh, autumn. For the outdoors person, especially the hunter, this is best time of the year.
Farmer's Almanac predicts weather, with humor
Every year around the middle of September, a copy of “The Old Farmer’s Almanac” arrives at the Daily Inter Lake office, addressed to me. I typically page through the longstanding publication that’s an alleged tried…
Too many grizzlies?
Allow me a detour if you will…
An unofficial end to summer
Last weekend was all about synchronicity for me. Though it wasn’t what I would have preferred to do, my activities seemed to fall into perfect order with the planet’s inclination.
Oh, deer: a love/hate relationship
I knew it was a bad idea to create a new flower bed next to our house last spring, but I did it anyway.
Watching the rods
Trolling is not for everybody. While it is the primary method we use to catch Lake Trout out on Flathead Lake, and big Gerrard Rainbows on Little Bitterroot, we get talk to many folks who say “trolling is boring.”