“The End Marks the Beginning,” and the title of this piece pretty well sums up what happens in March when it comes to our fishing seasons. Our ice fishing is coming to a close, and our trout fishing season is soon to get underway. Yes, some fishermen are still getting out on the ice as
I was talking to a buddy about ice fishing the other day, and he said he kept moving around on the lake, drilling over 30 holes trying to find some active fish. The fishing was generally poor until very late in the day when he finally began catching a decent number of fish. When he
How often have you been driving down the road and looked out the window and caught a glimpse of a big bird flying by, or you caught sight of a large bird perched in a tree? My first thought is whether that sighting was of a bald eagle; if not, what was it? A couple
The “winter rabbit” I’m referring to in this article is actually the varying hare, or more often called a snowshoe rabbit. While closely related, the snowshoe is not a true rabbit since its digestive tract is different from the cottontails, and newborn hares are fairly well developed compared to the newborn hairless and blind cottontail
Like many hunters or people just interested in seeing wildlife, I’m always on the lookout as I travel from place to place. This past weekend, my wife and I had to make daily trips to Bloomsburg to attend the Early Bird Show at the fairgrounds. We traveled the backcountry roads each morning and evening; my
Well, this has certainly been a winter more like those years ago when it stayed cold, and we seemed to have plenty of snow. Except for that brief period of warmer, rainy weather earlier this winter, it has been a lot more like the cold, snowy winters of years past. The good news is that
