Unless fishing is your way of making a living, it's supposed to be fun. It's always enjoyable for me because I don't fish for bass, at least not on purpose! Bass fishing is a lot like work and by nature I'm a lazy man, who has never had the slightest interest in past times that require more than a minimum amount of effort. Besides, it can be an expensive hobby if you're going to be a serious...
In the backyard barbeque cooker's Bible, it's almost blasphemous to give an electric smoker even an honorable mention in the "Best Smoker Category". To many of us, a smoker or grill that's attached to an electric cord is an insult to all of us who've smelled of wood smoke for a week because we stuck our head too close to the fire while adding charcoal!
Recently though, I've become an...
Developing a positive mental attitude is not exactly a piece of cake, but it can be done. Unless you already have one, it's hard to be self confident in any thing you under take. I recall quite vividly one self righteous gentleman telling me that I needed to have more self confidence. This was in the midst of family problems, a business going south and serious medical problems.
Small...
The morning was slightly overcast with marshmallow clouds hovering over the lake as we made our way to one of our favorite fishing holes. The fish were still on the beds in only couple of feet of water and if you dangled a minnow anywhere near them, you could pull up a big slab crappie almost as soon as you threw the bait into the water.
We were on Jessup Lake in central Florida, about...
Memories of last spring's fishing trip to Florida help warm up the night as I sit next to a glimmering fire in the den of my home here in northern Alabama, listening to the sleet bounce off the window panes. Spike the cat gently meows in his sleep next to the fireplace, no doubt chasing mice in his dreams.
March on Lake Jessup, about 20 minutes away from Orlando, is when nature out does...
My diminutive, white haired, 88 year old mother-in-law drives a red sports car and is now being threatened with prison time. Well, maybe not prison, because no one in their right mind wants to envision a little old lady pushing a walker and being led to the hoosegow by burly armed sheriff's deputies.
The whole thing started a few weeks ago when she got a ticket because she parked her car in...
I remember one special Christmas morning, when dad and mother yawningly turned the Christmas tree lights on in the corner of the living room, illuminating all the wonders that Santa had brought the night before. This was before television and computers and well before video games.
As though it was yesterday, just as the morning light was seeping through the windows, I saw a red cowboy hat...
My wife wouldn't let me in the kitchen on Thanksgiving Day! Even though the aroma emanating from the oven was making me giddy, Except for the food I cook on the barbeque grill, I'm not allowed even close to the kitchen!
The turkey I smoked this year was the best I have ever cooked, bar none. It's not bragging if it's the truth. Guests for Thanksgiving must have thought so too, for we had...
To those of us who've spent early evenings mesmerized by astoundingly beautiful purple and gold sunsets over Apalachicola Bay in Northwest Florida, the drought in Georgia and Alabama is becoming a personal matter. Even though I live 400 miles from this blissful bay between Apalachicola and St. George Island, I dream that some day I'll be a resident of the area and fish to my heart's content! I...
