My line started circling the eight-inch hole in the ice that was about five inches thick, but the flimsy rod tip did not move. As I raised the rod, I felt a little resistance, so I set the hook into the heavy fish. There was not much fight out of it until I got it […]
On Tuesday morning, we woke up to three inches of snow on the ground with more falling. It wasn’t long before the snow turned to rain and then it quit. But I could see it was still snowing in the mountains east of Rexburg. It was time to look for animals moving from the high […]
“Elk on the right – elk on the left!!!! I exclaimed as my rock-hunting partner was driving us across the INL early Tuesday morning. Mike was able to dodge the elk as they crossed the road. That herd of elk has been giving the early workers out on the site a gauntlet to run in […]
Most of the fields from Mud Lake to Camas National Wildlife Refuge had no birds last Tuesday as I went looking for sandhill cranes. There were a few geese, trumpeter swans and a hodge-podge of ducks, but I only saw two lonely cranes in one stubble field. That all changed when I got near the […]
Tis’ the season of ghosts and goblins at Harriman State Park. In the early dawn Tuesday morning with the temperature hovering around 20 degrees, I watched a herd of 22 elk standing knee-deep in the Henrys Fork eating the water veggies. Steam was rising from the river creating the scene of ghost-like animals warming their […]