Outdoors

By: Glynn Harris This is a fictitious story of two youngboys. We’ll call one Billy; the otherTommy. First here’s Billy’s story. Hegrew up in a family that loved to huntand naturally, he became interestedin hunting at a young age.Billy’s dad is a serious deerhunter who has a nice huntinglease with food plots, feedersout and several comfortable boxstands from which to …

By: Glynn Harris (Last week, a nearby lightning bolt fried the modem on my computer. I had it replaced but it brought to mind an article I had written years ago about my introduction to computers. It seems fitting today to share that story.)  As much as I depend on my computer, the thing sometimes nearly scares me to death. …

By: Glynn Harris When I was growing up long before cell phones came and stole away our solitude, sitting on the porch, especially in late afternoon, was something I came to expect. I can still see my dad in our old rocking chair; mama in the swing, us kids sitting on the steps enjoying being there as a day came …

By: Glynn Harris My daddy got me started bass fishingwhen I was just a kid. We would takeour old fishing rigs consisting of a steelrod, level wind reel and spool of blackline to the lake or creek.He would tie on one of thefew lures he had back then – aHawaiian Wiggler, River Runtor Dalton Special and we wouldgive it a …

By: Glynn Harris If you grew up back before the war like I did, life was far less complicated. We didn’t realize it was less complicated; it was the life we were born into before complicating things emerged onto the scene.  Summers, especially, were special for country boys like me. Once school was done for the year at the end …

By: Glynn Harris My dad spent the last 30 years before he retired working with predator control for the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. His job, simply stated, was a wolf trapper. He also trapped bobcat, foxes and other predators but red wolves were his primary focus.  During that period in the 1940s and ‘50s, wolves had no competition …

By: Glynn Harris Several websites recently have posted something of interest to anglers, especially those who live north of Alexandria. In other words, north Louisiana. Fishmasters, an outdoor resource site, has done research and recently posted a listing of their choice for the top fishing lakes in Louisiana.  North Louisiana can claim bragging rights because of the listing of the …

By: Glynn Harris “Okay”, said Matt Loetscher, “we’re on top of the brush pile. Drop your shiner straight down and you ought to get a bite.”  Loetscher’s comment was directed at me and I did exactly what he suggested. The shiner had no sooner descended to the brush pile when I felt the bite. Setting the hook, I hauled the …

By: Glynn Harris (After seeing lots of buzzards lately, here’s a chapter from my book “Fathers, Sons and Old Guns” that triggered a memory.)  If ever there was a creature on God’s green earth that runs the gauntlet from good to bad to ugly, it has to be the vulture, or what most of us call the buzzard.  First the …

By: Glynn Harris I can’t help but admire folks who have that certain drive to do the very best at what they do and they just keep on keeping on. One such fellow who has captured my attention is John L. Brown, Jr.  Brown was born and raised in Gilbert in northeast Louisiana and he first came to my attention …