A quarter-million pounds of trout or roughly 400,000 catchable-sized trout: That’s how much the Coursey Springs Hatchery produces on an average year. Located in Bath County, Virginia, Coursey Springs Fish Hatchery is a unique grow-out facility where brook, rainbow, brown, and tiger trout are raised to stockable size. The facility receives fingerlings from Wytheville, Marion, and Paint Bank … [Read more...]
A Fish as Big as He Is
By Molly Kirk/DWR (Photo by Andrew Clark) The Clark family was just about done with their day of fishing on the James River below the Benjamin Harrison Bridge in Prince George County on April 20. “We’d been out for three or four hours, and we’d caught some small catfish, but nothing impressive,” said Andrew Clark. Clark was out on the family boat with his wife and three children. “But we … [Read more...]
Saltwater News
Spot are packing up their bags and beginning to head out to sea, but some nice fish are still biting on the piers and in the lower stretches of the tidal rivers. They happen to be an excellent bait for jumbo flounder and other gamefish (as seen above). Big flounder are patrolling the humps along the CBBT, and bluefish continue to be caught throughout the lower bay. The rockfish season is going … [Read more...]
Gillette Cavalcade of Sports
If pressed, I could not name one current, professional boxer, but there was a time when I could name the champion of each weight category. Those were the days of Joe Louis, Kid Gavilan, Rocky Marciano, Sugar Ray Robinson, Carmen Basilio, Archie Moore, Ezzard Charles, Jersey Joe Walcott, Gene Fullmer, and with Don Dunphy as ringside commentator. These pugilists were household names because boxing … [Read more...]
For Gas Logs Service, It’s Tiger Fuel
I know people who can clean and service their own gas logs. And then there’s me. One time I disassembled the logs to get at the pilot light, then couldn’t get the logs back together. I didn’t do well with Lincoln Logs, either. So, for the past few years, we’d call a professional each fall to come out and get the logs in working order. The first year, I called one of the gas log specialists in … [Read more...]
Lemon Roasted Chicken
Some of the best recipes are simple, not only simple to prepare but simple in ingredients. Lemon Roasted Chicken is such a dish. The prep time is about five minutes, and the cooking time is about an hour, so how simple can it be? And it’s delicious. There are several variations to this recipe, but the best results come when the bird is cooked quickly in a relatively hot oven. Keep the … [Read more...]
Counting Crickets
We had a couple fat bullfrogs in our goldfish pond, and I had been tossing them mealworms for snacks. I was buying mealworms from an outfit called Fluker Farms and saw that they also sold live crickets. No doubt that my frogs would like a couple fat, juicy crickets for snacks, so I ordered a box of 100 from Fluker. They arrived in two days and were secured in a heavy corrugated box with wire … [Read more...]
Palmetto Cheese
It's a Southern thing. Pimento Cheese, that is. For at least a century Pimento Cheese has made its presence known at church picnics, funerals, weddings, graduations and in the lunch boxes of millions of freckled faced kids. Southerners have adopted pimento cheese as one of their favorite foods because it doesn’t readily spoil at room temperature and was widely consumed by those in the textile … [Read more...]
Omaha Steak Seasoning: The Best
I occasionally get a Gift Box from Omaha Steaks as a present from one of my kids. The boxes usually have more chicken, hamburgers, and hot dogs than steaks, but it’s all high quality and delicious. What I most enjoy about these gift boxes is that they usually include a bottle of their Omaha Steak Seasoning and it’s the absolute best on the market. It adds to and brings out the flavor of a steak … [Read more...]
Acorns Keep Falling on my HJead
By Katie Martin/DWR The “music” of fall for many wildlife species is the sound of acorns raining down from the trees. In most years, the steady “plop, plop” begins in early September and can continue, depending on the crop, through October. On calm days, they fall steadily as singles or pairs; but on a rainy, blustery day they can pour from the sky, leaving “marble yards” to navigate across in … [Read more...]
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