The cobia season is open in Virginia and anglers are catching. Both chumming and sight casting tactics are working. Anglers sight-fishing for cobia are also seeing large schools of red drum. Even prior to the season opening, numerous trophy cobia release citations were registered. Remember all anglers, captains and guides fishing for cobia must obtain a Recreational Cobia Permit from … [Read more...]
Trout Fishing Looking Good
All the rain has made for poor conditions recently, with many trout streams out of their banks, but prospects look good for June and July. Rivers like the Jackson, Bull Pasture and the Tye still have lots of holdover fish, they well dispersed and anglers will have summer opportunities where few usually exist. The Rivers The upper James, Shenandoah and Rappahannock are currently … [Read more...]
Lewisburg Church Ladies
(This is the eighth in a series of articles about growing up in Lewisburg, West Virginia, perhaps the greatest town and in the best time to grow up that a young man could ever ask for.) The first Easter Sunday after I moved from Beckley to Lewisburg, it snowed. Our family entered Old Stone Church in our summer best, having to knock off the snow from our shoes. I wore a blue seersucker … [Read more...]
Feeding The Birds
Our first nest of bluebirds finally hatched and fledged. It seems like the hen had been on the nest and tending to babies forever, but it was probably just a month in all. We were disappointed that only one baby bluebird survived. We think there were two that fledged, but now it’s one. This “only child” bluebird, however, will likely be the fattest bluebird chick on the planet. I have been loading … [Read more...]
Bodo’s: A Charlottesville Institution
When an alumnus of the University of Virginia returns to grounds, one of the first things he or she will do is find the nearest Bodo’s and get a bagel fix. Bodo’s is quite simply a Charlottesville institution. Brian Fox, a New England escapee, founded Bodo’s in 1986. At that time, bagels were known as a northern dish. Only the Yanks ate the odd shaped bakery items and usually with something … [Read more...]
Old Trail Wants You!
Old Trail Golf Club has made an appeal to all members of the Virginia State Golf Association to come play their course. With a valid VSGA card in hand, players can tee it up at the beautiful layout at the foothills of the Blue Ridge for just $42. This includes a cart, but is only valid on Mondays through Thursdays after 11 AM. The offer expires June 30, so there are still six weeks or so to take … [Read more...]
Snakeheads on the Move
They were first discovered in the Potomac River in 2004 - the infamous snakehead fish, imported from Asia and illegally released into our public waterways. The Game Department went on a snakehead safari, trying to eradicate the invasive species, but to no avail. The menacing looking snakeheads spread throughout the Potomac and then to the James and Rappahannock rivers and even into Lake Anna and … [Read more...]
Mexican Muffins
Kids, and adults as well, enjoy eating “personal size” dishes – like small apple pies (apple tarts), personal pizzas and eggs, bacon and cheese quiches baked in muffin tins. Recently, I concocted a personal size Mexican Muffin, basically a Burrito baked in a muffin tin. What made all this possible was my discovery of a larger size muffin tin. I didn’t know they made them. The large size is about … [Read more...]
Goat Cuddling
There is a new sport gaining in popularity. Goat Cuddling. It has not yet been approved for Olympic competition, but it may soon be. But a warning from the Surgeon General: Goat Cuddling can be quite contagious. On Tuesday this week, my wife and daughter, Laura, went on a Goat Cuddling expedition to Waynesboro. Their mission was to cuddle with as many baby goats as possible. They came back with … [Read more...]
Carolina Cobia
Cobia. One of the most splendid game fish in all of saltwater. They winter as far south as Florida, then make their way up the coast in the spring, slamming baits off of Charleston and Myrtle Beach before reaching Hatteras waters and heading north. Last week, the cobia arrived en masse at Oregon Inlet and skipper Reese Stecher and clients were on hand to take advantage. “At first we could see … [Read more...]
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