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Spring Beauties in a Lawn
Earlier this spring I came across this yard in Lawrence. A closer look reveals a carpet of Spring Beauties: Claytonia virginica What a cool lawn. This is my kind of lawn weed. Ever since I saw a similar photo in Kansas Wildflowers by William Chase Stevens of Spring Beauties colonizing a lawn in Pleasanton, I’ve…
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Final Four Weekend Fishing
Don’t take this as a complaint but over the last few years it has gotten increasingly difficult to find time to fish at the end of March with all the KU basketball success. Late March used to be my favorite time for overnight canoe trips in the Ozarks but I have yet to find a…
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Early Spring, Woodland Wildflowers
It seems with every passing day comes the realization that this winter is truly the winter that never was here in the central plains. As I look out my window the redbuds are in full bloom as are the bradford pears and several trees are starting to leaf out. Planted Magnolia’s are already past prime. …
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March Birthdays
For the past month, I’ve tried to work in a weekend trip to fish one of the blue ribbon trout streams in Missouri. I had a chance back in Feb. but thought it might not be a good idea to leave a Jayhawk blue pickup with DG Kansas tags parked along lonely rural Missouri roads–at…
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A Saturday in August
Earlier in the year I told GMAC that I would be heading to Colorado later than normal–maybe late enough to meet up and fish a couple of days if he just happened to move his normal time up a bit. Once in a while things work out. In July, GMAC mentioned that while he wasn’t…
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Old Time Colorado
In John Gierach’s latest book he opens with a chapter about pursuing cutthroats in southern Colorado. You don’t have to read many of his books to realize that this man has a thing for Cutts. I do too but I’m not sure why. Could be that they are native. Could be that in the summer…
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Day Two: Colorado
Early each trip to Colorado, I try and get reacquainted with old friends. One such friend is a creek on the other side of the divide in Alfred Packer country. This creek is popular with the Lake City crowd and it has drive in access. For that reason you never know if you’ll have the…
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There’s a reason….
Fickle, maddening, enticing, alluring…..the big river. This river gives up spectacular days of fishing for large trout in good numbers—Gold Medal in places. But most of those days seem to occur when I’m not around–often in late June. By the time I can get out, the fish have seen tons of fishermen, the major hatches…
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I’ll Take “Hodge Podge” for $200, Alex
The last month or so has been a bit on the disjointed side. Way too many deadlines and past-due deadlines coupled with presentations that made finding time to fish hard to find. I did fish and had a couple of good trips and some notable events. I failed to take many photos, though. Doubtlessly this…
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Short Kanopolis Report
Went out to Kanopolis, Friday night mostly to catch up with family. Threw in the rods and tackle figuring I’d get a chance to see how warm weather fishing for trout in Kansas might work. On the KDWP site it mentions that trout were caught last year into July–and that some again survived the summer.…
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