Saturday, March 7, 2026

Gilliland, Steve

Be Prepared when the Fish are Biting

Have you ever stepped into the water on the first fishing trip of the spring only to find your waders leaked? Or lost a...

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In the first chapter of Genesis, verses 26 – 28, God clearly put mankind in charge of managing all wildlife He had created. Now,...

Pepe Le Pew, we Smell You!

A term often used around Christmas and Thanksgiving is “Seasonal Smells,” meaning scents like pumpkin pie, roasting turkey and the scent of pine; pleasant...

Spring Wrens in Kansas

This week I heard the distinctive “pretty, pretty, pretty” spring song of a male cardinal, and Joyce saw her first robin. Usually when you...

Fishing Advances in My Lifetime

I’m really telling my age here, but I can remember walking up the road with my dad to a couple ponds near our place...

What’s in Your Hopper?

A few years back we embarked on an adventure to build a simple and inexpensive deer feeder. A friend had an old unused fuel...

Who Needs a Weatherman!

Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania was settled and named by the Delaware Indians as a campsite halfway between the Allegheny and Susquehanna Rivers. When German settlers arrived...

The Art of Mentoring

Ah, the exuberance of youth! A couple years back, I trapped coyotes for a couple weeks before deer firearms season in early December, with...