An early saltwater surprise this year is the large number of bluefish being caught all the way from the sounds behind Nags Head up to Virginia Beach and across the bay. Many of the fish are running 2 to 5 pounds, but some monsters in the 10-15 poundclass have also made an appearance. Biting alongside the blues, are Spanish mackerel which are now well up into Bay waters. Cobia are now along the … [Read more...]
Give a Kid a Creek
The greatest gift you can give a kid is not an X-Box or video game, or a cell phone or even a trip to Disneyland. Instead, give a kid a creek to play in and the child will be a happy camper. I remember a creek near Hopewell, VA. I was about 9 or 10 and staying a week with my Aunt Topsy and Uncle Jeffrey and I was bored out of my mind. Then, one afternoon, three or four neighborhood kids stopped … [Read more...]
Don’t Forget Buffalo Crrek
By Dr. Peter Brookes You don’t hear much about Buffalo Creek,, but fly fishing phenoms (and friends) Joe Irby and Derek Hutton have been trying to get me to come down to wet a line in the stream for quite a while. I was interested, but like everyone else I was “busy.” Looking back now on that piscatorial procrastination, putting off fishing Buffalo Creek was a … [Read more...]
All About Buttertflies
(An Eastern Tiger Swallowtail) By Andrea Naccarato/DWR Butterflies are fascinating creatures to observe in Virginia’s natural ecosystems, gardens, farms, and any other places where they can flutter from flower to flower. Within the Animal Kingdom, butterflies are considered a type of insect because they have three pairs of legs and an exoskeleton. Butterflies go through four … [Read more...]
Oven Fried Corn Flakes Chicken
I dearly love Fried Chicken. I would eat it once a week if I could, with leftovers the next day. But Nancy has been getting on me for “frying everything”. I don’t fry everything – cantaloupes, for example, but I bet they’d be good rolled in some flour and deep fried in Wesson Oil. So now I have to find an alternative to regular Fried Chicken and I did. It’s Oven Fried Corn Flakes … [Read more...]
Gardner’s Barbeque
A few years ago, as we were heading down I-95 on our way to Topsail Beach, NC, Nancy and I pulled off at the Dorches exit on Rt. 43 toward Rocky Mount. Our destination was Smith’s Red & White, one of the world’s great grocery stores. Smith’s packages many of their foods and vegetables and makes their own sausages and other delectable dishes. We loaded up with some groceries to take to the … [Read more...]
Fern Finches
I bought Nancy a couple potted plants to hang on the front porch. They were ferns and they were about seventeen bucks each – much higher than we used to pay, but they worked. After a couple attempts at getting the screw hook imbedded in the porch roof and a mending of the wire that held the heavy plants, all was well. Then, a couple weeks ago, it called for rain, so Nancy decided a little … [Read more...]
Here Come the Cobia
Just in time for Memorial Day Weekend, here come the cobia. For the past few weeks, cobia have been moving up the Carolina coast and now they’re here. The first schools have joined with red drum and will hit anything in sight - live eels, spot, menhaden, mullet, large spoons, white buck tails, plastic eels, swimming plugs or cut bait. They are hanging around buoys and other structure, … [Read more...]
Gift Wrapping and the Average Man
Four times a year, an average man is called upon to do something completely foreign, a task at which he is ill equipped. At Mother’s Day, on his Anniversary, at Christmas and on his wife’s birthday, the average man must gift-wrap presents. First, the average man must come up with the proper wrapping paper. Bat Man and Robin gift wrap paper, for example, is not considered appropriate to enclose … [Read more...]
Yellow Squash and Tomato Pie
I saw a recipe for a Zucchini Pie that sounded good as a side dish, but I didn’t have any zucchini squash - I had just bought some fresh yellow squash. So why not? I made a Yellow Squash and Tomato Pie that turned out delicious. Here’s how I went about it Chop up a cup and a half of yellow squash into half-inch cubes. Chop up two medium Roma tomatoes and ½ C sweet onion. Spread the ingredients … [Read more...]
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