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Road-runners, BBC and the Buffalo River
I keep track of all the birds I have seen on this wilderness ridge where I live and there is a huge list after living here more than 30 years. Several are very rare. The rarest of all showed up about … more
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From the ‘60s on the Roubidoux River.
Organizing memories
The other day I crossed the Roubidoux River and thought about Lane Davis. Lane was the longtime owner and editor of the Houston Herald newspaper and he hired me to paddle him down the Roubidoux, … more
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Ducks for Thanksgiving… my dad with his shotgun.
Thanksgivingfulness
There’s an old model ‘97 Winchester pump shotgun hanging on my office wall. It is old and scarred, a long-barreled relic from the good old days of my boyhood. In the fall, when the Ozarks … more
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A set of antlers like these, on a mounted buckhead, may be worth hundreds of dollars. Don’t let yours be confiscated on a technicality…
Know your rights as a hunter
I talk to outdoorsmen around the Ozarks it is amazing how ignorant they are about their rights as hunters and fishermen. The greater percentage of those I talk to wrongly believe that agents can come … more
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Black bear I have photographed in Canada, without the garbage dump.
‘Hunt no ducks over water!’
A couple of weeks ago I was talking with guide in Ontario who got a good laugh out of the bear hunting which forbids using bait. He said that without bait, few bears would ever be killed anywhere. In … more
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The beauty is astounding… fishing is great, worries are few. 
Observations from a granite boulder
In mid-October, Lake of the Woods, Ontario, looked like it was mid-September; no red and yellow foliage to amount to much, just green hillsides and water warmer than I had ever seen it. The … more
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I never took a selfie before, but here is the one I attempted of the big smallmouth — 20 inches long, six pounds.
A once-in-a lifetime fish
Rotten luck, that’s all you can call it! The day before my birthday, in mid-October, I was fishing in Canada, way out in the Lake of the Woods, and found a great spot for walleye in a remote … more
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The higher up in the tree I get, the harder it is for something on the ground to smell me, but the limbs get so thick it is hard to see the deer.
Making scents of things
There is a special place I visit to bow-hunt and get away from people and this awful world. It is on a lake and I get there by boat. I know that bass fishing is often very good on the nearby lake … more
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Notice the straight lines low on the belly of the white bass.
Up some river in October
Fisheries biologists started creating hybrid fish years ago. It hasn’t always worked out the way they thought it would. The cross of walleyes and saugers, produce something they called a … more
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Not too small on this lake.
Old memories and a new group to join
I was on Lake Wappapello this past week with an old-days college roommate, Darrell Hamby, of Patterson. We were fishing for crappie and reliving old times. That lake is something and though there … more
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Something to be aware of
People need to know about new diseases that result from outdoor living. One of them is known as the ‘Alpha-gal’ syndrome, a sometimes fatal disease people get from the spotted wood tick … more
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A rare late migrator greenwing teal with an early migrating blue wing. Brightly colored in the spring, they are drab-colored in the fall.
September ducks
After all those years of joking about being a grizzled old veteran hunter, I now are one and it ain’t no joking matter! I hunted blue-winged teal during that very first special teal … more
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A younger Larry Dablemont is pictured hunting with his labrador.
Fish… don’t hunt
Dove season is upon us and there are two or three reasons to avoid it as far as I am concerned. For one thing, I don’t want to hunt in crowds, and I don’t like to get sweat on my shotgun, … more
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Dablemont with an August micropterus dolomieu.
Where the heat… ain’t no problem
There are some problems this time of year for an outdoorsman who takes to the woods. It is the beginning of a more aggressive situation with copperheads due to the heat and skin-shedding time. And … more
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The spider and the mud dauber
I see lots of things outdoors that are hard to believe, but what I saw this past week is one of the weirdest things ever. It was outdoors just outside my workshop-fishing- hunting-book storage and … more
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Float a river with me
I have been contacted by several readers about the Buffalo River float trip I am going to conduct on Saturday, Oct. 28. It is going to be an all day interpretive trip on the river celebrating the … more
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One last trip to the Buffalo
Fifty years ago this summer I was working at Buffalo River as a naturalist for the National Park Service. It was a grand time and I loved it. In October you can help me celebrate those days and my … more
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A slick, slimy, seldom-seen, salamander success story
We had a good meeting at Buffalo, on Sunday to kick off our “Common Sense Conservationist” membership drive. We had representatives from Owensville, Ellington, Farmington, Conway, … more
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“Ossifragus,” new to the Ozarks
Along the Ozark streams, a favorite place of mine nowadays, as it gets hot and muggy, there comes the cry of a strange type of crow, a kind of caw that sounds like the black rascal is choking on … more
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The most amazing reptile
When I think of all the fascinating things I have seen in this natural world I have been exploring well over 40 years, one of the most fascinating is a little snake that my grandmother told me was a … more
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