When anglers go fishing, they want to catch a fish. In fact, most anglers want to catch lots of fish. While you’re probably not going to always catch lots of fish, there are some things that people who fish can do to increase their odds of getting bit. Finding the biters is a big part of ...
Love and marriage have changed in my time on earth. Rules have blurred since I was a teenager. Upon my first marriage I was only 21 years old. God gave me 43 years with Cindy, the bride of my youth. After her passing, He blessed me again and now Julie and I have been married nearly seven years. If my ciphering is correct, I have been married for more than two-thirds of my life. That’s fine with me. I’m not the brightest bulb in the string but I do know a few things about love and marriage and I know that marriage is a good thing when you are married to the right ...
Serendipity. It’s such a fun word to say but you don’t hear it used often. Serendipity not only sounds good; it is good. Merriam-Webster’s official definition of the word is “the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for; also: an instance of this.” Serendipity can occur in many ways. For some, it may be finding a $100 bill on the sidewalk. For me, it usually involves meeting people in a surprising setting. An instance of serendipity occurred on a recent weekend. Julie and I had driven to Orange City in Northwest Iowa to spend the ...
I’ve heard anglers described in many ways. Some will say that to be a successful angler you need to have certain attributes. You need to be imaginative. Or determined. Some will say that you need to “think like a fish”. That wouldn’t be so good. Fish don’t think, they respond. And ...
Across the Midwest, most fish have set up their summer homes. They’ve completed the spawning ritual and now those fish are hungry. If you put a bait near a fish, it will probably bite that bait. The key is to show your bait to as many fish as possible and trolling is a good way to do that. ...
Since the 1980’s, I’ve done lots of fishing seminars at sport shows and for outdoor clubs and fishing tackle retailers. It’s been way over a year since I did my last fishing seminar. Gatherings like those got shut down in early 2020 and haven’t really started up again yet. ...
