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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Walleye time
If there's plenty of water, they move up the tributaries and streams at the slightest warming of the currents that call them.
Larry Dablemont
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: An owl before dawn
My grandfather, who always lived out in the woods or on the creek somewhere, sawed the top out of medium-sized trees up about twenty feet from the ground, to create a flat landing place for the great horned owl, and then would set a steel trap there, and bait it with a wood rat or small squirrel.
Larry Dablemont
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Firewood in abundance
On upper sections, nearly three quarters of the river, there are shoals so shallow canoes can’t pass through or over without dragging.
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: The White and the browns
Browns are not native to the United States. They have been stocked in the White and no one would think they could successfully spawn there, but when the water is high this time of the winter, they actually do, to a lesser degree, but not to any great extent.
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Visiting the Old Homeplace Covey
Luke and Sadie aren’t just good, they are great! They both sat in my boat while we motored across Truman Lake to a hard-to-reach spot where Freckles and I found quail years ago.
Larry Dablemont
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: A haven
In the woodlands, where giant oaks and hickories and cedars are as big as any I have ever seen anywhere, I find scrapes and rubs freshly made by buck deer.
Larry Dablemont
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Canadian adventure
With the pain hammering me with each heartbeat, Christy took over, and drove me back to the border, to International Falls, Minnesota. There was no doubt what was happening; the pain was tremendous.
Larry Dablemont
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: What sounds like a trumpet?
That flock of eleven is something I will not forget seeing.
We didn’t get a deer that afternoon; in fact, we never even saw
one. We did see a wild gobbler and a half-grown wild pig, coal black,
and hard to see in the underbrush.
Larry Dablemont
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Geese aplenty
Floating down the river in November and December of the 1960s as a kid with my dad, hunting mallards and wood ducks from our old johnboat, if we saw a few Canada geese on the river and actually had a chance to bring one home, it was a never to be forgotten experience.
Larry Dablemont
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Adders and vipers
The terms "spreading adder" or "hog-nosed viper" are common names for the harmless little snake, given to them by Ozark rural people.
Larry Dablemont
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: What about wild turkeys?
We talked about how, years back, we would see eight or ten strutting gobblers and hens in March and April back in the reaches of green fields along timber edges.
Larry Dablemont
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Don’t hunt fall turkeys
Bow hunting should not be very high on any outdoorsman’s list in September unless he doesn’t fish at all or do anything else but deer hunt. It is a poor time to skin and hang a deer because it is always too warm. The dead of winter is bow-hunting time.
Larry Dablemont
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: The lowdown on doves
If it has been written once that dove hunting is a good way to get a youngster the chance to hunt and experience a day outdoors, it has been written a million times.
Larry Dablemont
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: The shirt off my back
But I thought how great it would be if I was referred to at my funeral as “…a person who would give someone the shirt off his back.”
Larry Dablemont
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: A dream’s end
All dreams come to an end and my dream of making a Big Piney River Nature Center and Museum have ended
Larry Dablemont
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: A valuable bear
That is a quote from the written judgment. The kid didn’t prove he was innocent from the charge that he had killed the bear over bait! Read that again: He needed to prove he was innocent!
Larry Dablemont
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Fishing trip on a hot day
Patient I am not, so I drifted into a big deep eddy where the current swirled and stilled.
Larry Dablemont
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: The bullfrog
Froggers get scarcer every year. The men who once caught bullfrogs by hand as they traveled along Ozark rivers either wading or boating were real capable outdoorsmen.
Larry Dablemont
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: Groundhog hunter
The old men at the pool hall let nothing go to waste, claiming a clover-eatin’ groundhog was better eatin’ than a beaver.
Larry Dablemont
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Outdoors with Larry Dablemont: How I learned to catch trout
The best thing about S of O was Lake Taneycomo, full of trout and ducks. The School sat on a bluff right above it.
Larry Dablemont
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