Opening Day – Ruffed Grouse Society

Opening Day – Ruffed Grouse Society

Opening day is the one of the days we await all year long. Its the time when we gather family, friends, dogs, favorite shotguns, and trade in our everyday lives for the woods. If we’re lucky the day falls on a weekend and, we don’t need to make special...
Take Your Show on the Road – Ruffed Grouse Society

Take Your Show on the Road – Ruffed Grouse Society

Of all the activities I do in the outdoors, be it dog training, shooting, trout fishing, turkey hunting, waterfowling, striper fishing, horseback riding, or anything else, grouse and woodcock hunting ranks first.  I count down every day until the season begins like a...
Spey Casting – Fly Fisherman

Spey Casting – Fly Fisherman

It was as perfect a September as ever. The temperature at night was cold enough to ice the deck of my boat, and hot enough during the day to make me sweat. Indian Summer as it’s known here in the Pilgrim State of Bassachusetts. Before the sun was up I walked...
First Shot – Field & Stream

First Shot – Field & Stream

Hey, I found the deep spot. During the short window for wadefishing the bayside flats near Wellfleet, Mass., one cloudy June afternoon, Tom Keer chased a striped bass off the edge of a sandbar into a neck-deep channel. “The 12-foot tides drop to less than 2 feet...
New England’s Fall Beaches – Fly Fish America

New England’s Fall Beaches – Fly Fish America

Fall beach fishing is like a good short story you can’t put down. There is the rising action, the climax, the falling action and the end. Some times it’s fast, other times it’s measured, but at all times it’s a page-turner. When fall actually...