Drifting The Prairie Ocean Outdoor Journal

Old hunting dogs still want to hunt.  Things don't come quite so easy as they once did for old hunting dogs.  Leaping into the back of t...

Saturday, I waded the creek on a cloudy day with wind that chopped the water.  This morning I waded a muddy creek on a bright sunlit day wit...

There seems to be something special about the October carp here on the prairie ocean.  It's almost like they take on their own fall colo...

I took the carp leader off my favorite rod yesterday and replaced it with a lighter leader more suited for the Rainbow trout that will be in...

Before Charlie departed for Denver on Saturday, he met me at the mercantile store to deliver a most delightful present.  It seems that the...

Charlie is probably landing in Denver about now.  He'll be there a few days visiting family and this time he took his fly rod.  Early th...

I guess Charlie couldn't keep from going out after this afternoon's rain showers.  He went out much later than I did today not get...

I knew if I went to pursue the carp by fly this afternoon it would be a brief outing.  In the refrigerator a pork roast was marinating and s...