Drifting The Prairie Ocean Outdoor Journal

Most of us who angle have our favorite species to fish for.  In my case it is trout and carp.  However, if it's in the water I wish to p...

Charlie has returned from Mexico and wasted no time at all in saying hello to his favored carp.  Charlie tells me the Mirror actually chased...

I loved pretty tail as a young man.  I love pretty tail now as an older man.  I own this fascination for pretty tail.  My philosophy, when i...

Thursday was a horribly slow day at the mercantile store.  I guess many folks are busy trying to get those last few gifts under the Christma...

Dear Carp, On my most recent visit with your kind I found myself reminiscing about a time that Charlie and I came to your home together.  ...

Dear Carp, Yesterday was March 28th.  That date most likely holds no significance for you my friends, but in my life and the life of Charl...

Dear Carp, Today was a cookie cutter of yesterday, but only nicer since there was much less wind.  I deemed it a perfect afternoon to come...

An Arctic front was scheduled to hit this part of the prairie ocean at nine o'clock this morning.  This frigid train was being pushed by...

These days if Charlie or me want to go on the hunt for carp we'd better get an early start.  On Wednesday morning when I stepped out of ...

Same scenario as last Saturday - at work way before the rooster even thinks about crowing, leaving work and arriving at the creek at the tim...

That one day off from the mercantile store didn't last long.  It seems the young man that was helping fell prey to the delights of summe...

There was only about thirty minutes of light left last evening, but I decided to go to the creek anyhow.  For the first fifteen minutes I di...

Since last Saturday there has been little time to get to the creek in hopes of holding conversation with the carp.  Miss Carol flew to Virgi...

Even though I got to the creek rather early this morning, by 7:30 it looked like I had fallen in the creek.  The humidity is so high here I ...