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Larry Dablemont
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: The greatest man I ever knew
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...
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Larry Dablemont
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: The river in winter
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.
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Larry Dablemont
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Into forgiving hands
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...
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Baked mallard for Christmas
Charley and his wife were in their early sixties. Neither knew the young seventeen-year-old kid who stood there before them in ragged overal
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Larry Dablemont
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: The cedar tree and me
Dad and I always went out to neighboring farms in early December, hunting rabbits and quail and farm pond ducks and at the end of the day...
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Chest waders and quackers
There was no one back in that day hunting ducks on Bull Shoals. It was a great year because the lake was up fifteen feet or so, and the...
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Larry Dablemont
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: There one went – a roadrunner
There isn’t a lot known about roadrunners. They seldom fly and don’t get but a few feet off the ground, seldom going more than 20 yards...
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Trailer lights
On occasion a law enforcement official stops me, and I promise I am going straight home to fix the trailer light problem. I even carry...
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Make thousands with this example
So now the MDC has made another 10,000 from those tags issued to 400 ‘bear-hunters.’ Now they have pocketed $88,000 by flim-flamming 7,800..
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Larry Dablemont
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: A fall fishing excursion
It has never bothered me to go up to Canada and fish alone because those conditions have never concerned me. My ancestry is from French...
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: A lure full of memories
What memories I have of that stream! I actually guided a few of my float fishing clients on that little river in a 14-foot wooden johnboat..
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Interviewing the director
He gave a good answer, “We’ll think about it.” He won’t of course. He’d have to answer questions they never will answer like, “Why does...
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Long beaks and big eyes
Forty years ago in Arkansas, I dropped a limit of eight woodcocks in an afternoon of quail hunting along the Buffalo River in early December
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Larry Dablemont
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: A great day at a great place
If you just want to come and see what we have, show up between 9:00 and 3:00 and you might win a valuable painting of the Big Piney River...
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Who wants a used mower?
I’d go back to the pool hall after a haircut, and the old men would all have some kind of smart-aleck remark about how much lower my ears...
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: The evils of gambling
On a recent summer float trip, we all agreed to put a quarter on the biggest smallmouth, a quarter on the biggest largemouth...
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Opening date of Big Piney River Nature Center
He is making a donation to the center and will evaluate any outdoor oriented antiques you wish to bring—lures, reels, whatever.
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Dove feathers
You need harvested grain fields for good dove hunting, or a small pond used as a water hole where they come to water in the evening...
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Maybe they ate sheep
A few years ago, Carol Schroeder, from Camdenton, told me that her husband had died from the disease known as Cruetzfeldt-Jacobs disease...
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Hot summer, cool stream
By doing so, you can actually get off away from the world’s problems. Float downstream and find a gravel bar or sand bar to camp on...
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