“Should we take some sea-sick medicine for tomorrow’s trip?” one of my companions asked the charter boat operator the night before we were to spend a day fishing for halibut in Kachemak Bay out of Homer, Alaska. “If you spend this much money, it would…
Nature is always filled with surprises. Some of the best entertainment of all comes from watching wildlife. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife viewing is the most popular outdoor recreational sport in America, with somewhere between 65 and 80 million participants–40 million…
Recently the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the 2008-2009 National Rivers and Stream Assessment Survey about the quality of waterways in the U.S. gathered from approximately 2,000 sites across the country. Some of the findings include: Twenty-one percent of the nation’s rivers and streams are…
You’re out in the marsh in duck season. A flight of mallards comes over. You carefully pick out three big greenhead drakes. Three shots and seconds later, they are down in the pond. A triple. Wow! You go out to pick them up. Suddenly one…
If you’re planning a summer fishing trip to Alaska, or elsewhere for that matter, now is the time to be checking out guides and making reservations. I learned some valuable lessons about guides a couple years ago when I spent a week fishing on the…
