Tucked way down south in the bottom of the state is a jewel among jewels — the Current River. Specifically, the stretch of river between Van Buren and Doniphan. If you were to calculate the amount of water that emerges from all the springs that dump into this section of the river, one would need…
By Richard Whiteside Years ago I would start turkey hunting in Kentucky and Tennessee in late March, in some of their early season quota hunts. The TVA (Tennessee Valley Authorities) managed a large portion of LBL (Land Between the Lakes). I would always purchase the All Big Game 365 Tag which gave me an all-year…
Safety, safety, safety. Do we really take into account the possible risks that we outdoors people take when we do what we do? Some of the risks we take are just plain stupid, if we are honest. We get so focused on that 5-year-old Tom that we’ve been trying to kill for two years and…
By Richard Whiteside One night a long time ago I lost an entire deer camp due to my negligence and a campfire. It was a very cold night, two nights before the opener of Missouri gun season for deer. I was bowhunting on a tributary to the Current River and was 3 miles upriver from…
Being a successful waterfowl hunter means a lot of fun. I never realized just how much fun and work duck hunting involved until my youngest son took it up. You need to be logged in to view the rest of the content. Please Log In. Not a Member? Join Us
I remember sitting outside next to the NAPA store in Campbell one day around 2001 as I watched an elderly woman help her husband into the bank. Knowing he had little time to live due to a recent diagnosis of cancer, I wondered what he was up to. After a few moments they made their…
It’s the first day of December and I’m sitting here with a hot cup of coffee and a broken left foot from tripping over an old woven wire fence in the leaf litter while deer hunting. Thanksgiving is behind us and I can’t help but to think of warmer days ahead… and reflect on last summer’s…
I have said it before, “It’s impossible to catch a rainbow trout in an ugly place.” I learned how to catch trout on the Eleven Point River. Catching these fish in the waters of the Eleven Point hooked me from the start. Richard Whiteside I had always been a smallmouth fisherman and a fairly good…
