Outdoors

Mont Cleary was not well-liked. Folks said he had killed a man in the 40’s after a poker game on the river by pushing him over a bluff. Argis Blackfern was a good old boy that everyone in the pool hall liked and had fun with. Argis, who was known as Argie to everyone, was

Taberville Report by Bobby Dains Dains Fish Farm I caught five blue cats a day on 30 hooks. I had several slot fish. I had two 25 pounders on live bait. Cut bait caught the smaller cats. We got three inches of rain. The river is up up about four feet. Spoonbilling should be good

It was two o’clock in the afternoon before we got to the lake, and it was up a liitle but not much. The water was just a little murky, but there was still a few feet or so of visibility in it.  That’s about perfect for a big spinner-bait.  If you fish small spinners and

Taberville Report by Bobby Dains Dains Fish Farm Blue cats are biting good on trotlines and rod and reel if you get in the right spot. I haven’t seen any flatheads. Snagging season opens March 15. That will stop the trotlining. I’m going to set some trotlines this afternoon to catch me some fish. Caplinger

All through the fall hunting season, those of us who love to hunt waterfowl prayed for rain. The one thing you need for great duck hunting is plenty of water, and we just didn’t have it. So I have decided to go duck hunting in the spring, when the ducks start heading back to the

I have noticed that there are more skunks in the Ozarks than I have ever seen before, and I want to remind readers that skunks often get rabies, likely carriers of that disease second only to bats. If you see one during the day, or have one around your home that acts strange any time

A strange thing is happening out in California, where people are starting to live in caves. If you remember, I wrote about my grandfather and I staying in caves on the Big Piney River in the sixties. We found all kinds of arrowheads and pieces of clay pots, and even an ivory artifact in one.

For most of two hours, the little beagle had struck trail after trail, and hotly pursued a half dozen cottontails in circles that wound around broam sedge, cedar thickets and patches of briar and sumac. I had missed one and bagged one. My partner had two. Two other hunters with us had yet to fire

When I am hunting and fishing now I am almost always alone and I have conversations with myself. Some say that when someone does that, it is an indication that they are crazier than a pet coon, but I ain’t. Crazy people ask themselves questions. I don’t do that. I did sometimes when I was

On the first day of January I went looking for ducks on some of the many ponds and ranch lakes in my region of the Ozarks. As one old-timer in the pool hall once said about honest politicians on the ballot… “They wa’nt none!” I have never seen a time in 32 years of living