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Nancy smith Lynn with a fat bass. The lure at the top is the old swimming minnow.
A swimmin’ minnow does the trick
I hired Nancy Smith Lynn a year or so ago to work with advertisers for my magazines. She owns a farm near Mt. Grove, Missouri and is a nice lady who does a whiz-band job of what she does for me, but … more
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Skunks are predators, mostly carnivorous but not totally. They can be a problem in a garden.
Road skunks
I learned something about skunks recently. I drove from my home to Bull Shoals Lake in North Arkansas last week, then up to Texas County and eventually back home to Lightnin’ Ridge here about … more
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Speckled belly goose.
Speckled geese and red wolves
I was out in the woods about a week ago and I heard a familiar sound high overhead, the call of wild geese. There are not a lot of people who hear specklebelly geese and recognize the fact that they … more
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Otter toilets reveal so much
This should make you laugh… a letter I got from Butch Stone, a grizzled old veteran outdoorsman from the Ozarks who makes his own bows and arrows and hunts successfully with them. He … more
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1960 photo of the greatest Ozark naturalist I ever knew, my grandfather, Fred Dablemont.
A man who made predictions
A real life naturalist is a man who has lived his life in the woods knows and sees and feels things that he knows the modern world will not understand Men who call themselves ‘Master … more
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A legal theft
I bought a Keurig coffee maker at the Walmart store in Houston, Mo., in December and it quit working a little more than a month later. Got to where it wouldn’t make more than two ounces at a … more
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They are one of the ugliest creatures I have ever seen and there is nothing good about them.
Black death and bad news
They are coming, and believe me, nothing seems to slow them down. They are non-native birds known as black vultures… an evil plague on the Ozarks. Black vultures are compact birds with broad … more
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In winter, a lone quail is usually a dead quail.
Winter and wildlife
During very cold and vicious winter weather, wild creatures need much more food than they need during the mild stretches that we love to see. The acorns that were as thick as I have seen them in a … more
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The pool hall kid
I went to work at the pool hall one afternoon, straight from school. Ol’ Jim and Ol’ Bill were there and they could tell I was pretty despondent. I was 13 years old and had just got my … more
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Muzzle-loader hunters
You have to be smart to hunt with a muzzle-loader! If you aren’t giving some thought to what you are doing and you nonchalantly ram a bullet down the barrel before you pour the powder in, you … more
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Just another passing of night
Note to editors and readers. This column was written many years ago, but people seemed to like it so here it is again. There won’t be any New Year’s Eve party here on Lightnin’ … more
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Grandkids and Christmas
As much as I loved my two little grandsons, I didn’t get either of them a Christmas present when they were young. That’s because they had toys stacked so high in their home that you … more
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Habits of the bucks
There is misinformation about deer rubs on trees that you see in the fall and winter. No, the story that those rubs you see are made by bucks whose velvet antlers are itching and they need to get rid … more
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Photo of my treasures from last week shows the 5 lures… each of which sell for 12 to 16 dollars new. The 7-foot Penn graph rod and shakespear microcast reel costs about $125 new. To a man who uses a sassafras hand-made boat paddle, the aluminum paddle is fairly worthless.
Searching for treasure
I am a beachcomber, I reckon. Didn’t know what that was until I saw it in a magazine the other day. About four or five years ago I was in Canada on Lake of the Woods fishing for Walleye, Bass, … more
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Thankfulness
We can’t help but be thankful that it was such a mild fall, but I refuse to be happy about the cold that has whacked us in November. But then, I am happy to see a good number of ducks arriving … more
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I use a camera nowadays instead of a gun. It is no big problem to shoot these bucks with my camera. I can get photos of a half dozen bigger than this one this winter. This poor buck was killed just a day later.
The staple of deer camps
One of the things I hate most about deer season is the combination of long-range rifles and alcohol. In the night before the season opener, liquor stores do business with hunters that exceeds any … more
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Dreading deer season
On Saturday there will be an army of people in the woods with high-powered rifles after white-tail deer. For some reason, I can never relax during deer season. I live in the woods and it can be … more
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A three course supper
A man who lives in the country ought to have a good squirrel dog and I don’t have one. The old-timers I knew back home in the hills would not understand that! Problems, problems, problems! … more
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When your boat leaves you
When you can provide someone with a good laugh and it lasts all day, you have really accomplished something. And here is how I did it. Dennis Whitesides, an old friend who I have fished and … more
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Gloria Jean and Rambunctious with a Canadian ruffed grouse from a long-ago October in Ontario.
October memories
Ain’t October wonderful! It’s the best month of the year for fishing and hunting, except maybe for November and April, and possibly May and December. I once spent most of October in … more
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