James H. Phillips
Trout stream is changing PDF Print E-mail
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Thursday, 24 May 2012 10:26

Justin Phillips argues with a trout on the Little Elkhart River near Middlebury.

Of all the delights that can be found outdoors, none to my way of thinking can compare to wading slowly along a meandering trout stream on a warm, spring day while delicately casting a fly to trout.

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It’s spring, time to talk turkey PDF Print E-mail
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Thursday, 26 April 2012 10:30

Ten-year-old Matthew Rhodes of North Webster bagged his first wild turkey recently while hunting with his uncle during the special youth spring-turkey season.

The mating display of a tom turkey is captivating. He struts, he dances. He spread his wings, he fans his tail. He gobbles, he becomes quiet. And then, as often happens when a wily, old tom tires of trying to attract the attention of an inanimate hen turkey decoy, he suddenly vanishes, causing a hunter’s spirits to plummet.

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Take your kid fishing today PDF Print E-mail
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Thursday, 22 March 2012 10:31

Take a kid fishing this spring and he or she may discover a joy outdoors that transcends sitting at home playing electronic games, as did Briggs Phillips, the grandson of the author.

In the early summer of 1963, I found myself in Florida’s Everglades, over-nighting in a National Park Service motel at Flamingo. I was fresh out of college and full of energy. Around 10 p.m. I wandered out to the park’s expansive seawall to discover a lone angler hoping to catch snook on an incoming tide.

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Replacing the new with the old PDF Print E-mail
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Thursday, 23 February 2012 11:21

If the statement came from any other angler, I would have instantly dismissed it. But Russell Chatham is no ordinary fisherman. He knows whereof he speaks.

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Starling hunt in snow PDF Print E-mail
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Thursday, 26 January 2012 11:16

A hen wood duck, center, struggles to find food beneath the snow along the Elkhart River. Unlike mallards, the drake at top and the hen at bottom, wood ducks rarely over-winter here. Most woodies fly south ahead of the first hard frost in late October or early November.

Winter’s fury is a hostile visitor. High winds, blowing snow and sub-freezing temperatures bring hope to ice fishermen, but the rest of us hunker down in our warm homes to await a storm’s passing.

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