He was always someone quick to laugh, to enjoy the humor of situations involving hunting and fishing.

From those eight thousand applicants, four hundred were selected to buy a bear tag. Seven thousand and six hundred applicants lost their ten-dollar applicant fee and got nothing for it. 

An hour later the sun was shining and the three of us were dipping rainwater from the boat, warmed up and enthused again. We paddled up the river against a rising current to our camp a half hour away. 

The Morton brothers and I seldom got to skip church on Sunday unless it was for fishing. Proclaiming sickness didn’t always work.

I like to go to a local Ozark lake and set a couple of trotlines, then take youngsters and move along the rocky, shallow banks with my trolling motor...

Biologists from that long-ago time also did a study of growth rates, which showed that rock bass on the Black and Jacks Fork Rivers were three years old when they reach six inches in length.

This fish that had grabbed my little eighth-ounce jig just stayed down and pulled with determination which led me to hope he just might...

Back in 1960 there were no aluminum river boats or canoes, but dad had built a couple of 14-foot wooden johnboats that you could use to...

But it is rivers that I love to fish and last week when the temperature rose into the 70s, I took a trip to a river...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is a partner in the slaughter. The MDC gets hundreds of thousands of dollars from USDA to carry out....

They feed ravenously after the spawning period, as do the rainbows. Trouble is, it is difficult to catch big rainbow trout from the White...

I was 13 in the summer of ‘61, a troubled youngster who hated school, rich people, teachers and most all of the kids I went to school with.

Near Greenfield, Missouri, was a huge group of short-eared owls, a species a little bit like the barred owl in size and appearance

Maybe you wouldn’t call it music, but Jess and the other men knew it as such. All I know is, the voice of old Outlaw was different...

The lure was nothing of great importance. It was one of those four- or five-inch black and white minnows that look like the old Rapala lures

If they were to send their biologists to the area in September and October and require hunters to check the first 110 deer killed...

Whatever you believe, you darn sure aren’t going to eat a diseased deer if you know it. I hope that bow hunter who killed the diseased buck

Actually, it was my dad who taught me to fish and run the river when I was just a little tyke. I was floating the river with dad when I...

The rain was steady now but with little wind, thank goodness. I was content to watch it from the dry shelter. I was in no hurry.

Dad said Saldy was as fine a man as he ever knew, and he would trust him with every penny the pool hall made in a week...