Outdoors

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 …

By: Glynn Harris Lincoln Parish Park was born from the dream of a special man, the late Fredrick Hoogland. One day, in the late 1970s, he was inspired by something he saw. I interviewed him 20 years or so ago and wrote an article on his discovery.  “When I stepped up on a bluff that spring day and saw what …

By: Glynn Harris Turkey hunting in Louisiana is going full tilt with another week to go until season ends May 3. From posts I’m seeing on the Internet and from calls I’ve gotten, it seems to have been a pretty good season so far with quite a few longbeard gobblers biting the dust since season opened for the general public …

By: Glynn Harris There is one nice advantage to being an outdoors writer and getting to attend annual conferences of writing organizations. One such group that is no longer in existence is the Southeastern Outdoor Press Association that when active, held annual conferences somewhere in the southeastern United States.  I got to meet and rub shoulders with other writers whose …

By: Glynn Harris (Turkey season is open and although I can no longer hunt, allow me to dip into the archives and dshare a column I wrote several years ago to express my love for the sport and all that accompanies it.)  We’re sitting here on the cusp of one of my favorite times of year. Its spring; dogwoods and …