The author in his younger days with a walleye from the Sheyenne River at the start of a night of fast fishing. Those moments of success provide us an opportunity to wrap advice, nostalgia and entertainment into one tale and share our experiences with others. Simonson Photo.
By Nick Simonson
Perhaps it was because the spoken-word piece by Baz Luhrmann was in such high rotation on MTV’s video lineup in the summer of 1999 when I had just afternoon classes and the TV in my fraternity house room was just on all morning, but the newspaper column dubbed over instrumental music that is Wear Sunscreen has resonated with me throughout my life.
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By Nick Simonson
Dragging my jig over the subtle pull of the shifting river bottom, I felt a dead weight sensation and lifted the rod tip to see the slight bend confirm what my cold and glove-covered hands could barely detect.
I completed the raise with all due haste and the point of the hook on my parrot-colored jig found its place in the upper jaw of the walleye at the other end. Soon the splashing, flipping golden-sided fish made its way to the net under the gray early-afternoon skies like the one a few minutes before it, and I knew my buddy Kevin and I were on a good set of fish. It was a solid trade to wipe the cold water of the Missouri River from my hands to drop the 16-incher into the livewell before blowing a breath through them, drying them off on my pantleg and rebaiting.
Good Grass. CRP plantings provide cover for wildlife and help sustain huntable populations. Hunters should focus on finding ways to improve habitat, which will help their odds in spring lotteries and in the field each fall. DEO Photo by Nick Simonson
By John Bradley
Each year sportsmen and sportswomen look forward with anticipation to hunting season.
Even in spring we wait with hope for the email from Game and Fish notifying that we were drawn for one of the “big three:” once in a lifetime tags for moose, elk, and bighorn sheep. Later we hope that our number gets called for the deer tag in our favorite unit. For most, that excitement drops when they read “your application was not drawn.” It’s easy to gripe at Game and Fish when our name in the hat doesn’t get drawn, but what are we as hunters doing to increase our draw odds?
By Nick Simonson
I can’t tell you what I was reaching for in the boat when I set my rod down.
Likely, in the chill of the start to an otherwise perfect Saturday, it was the blue coffee tumbler I had borrowed from my mom when meeting my brother and a buddy for a drift down my home flow of the Sheyenne River. It could have been one of the tiny krystal flash jigs I had been taking from the small pile for the soft-biting walleyes we were pursuing which had required me to downsize to that ultralight rod with four-pound test, to give them something smaller to match their appetite. Perhaps it was to exhale through my hands in order to keep them warm.
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