04.13.2014 Sports Outdoors: Dealing with plastics and other waste In our throwaway world, early spring can be depressing. When we travel the highways of the Northeast, the snow-covered winter trash emerges in ugly profusion as the snow recedes....
03.16.2014 Sports North Fork Outdoors: Rescue animals come with histories The death of a family dog can be tough, even when anticipated. When our 14-year-old rescue Brittany, Bandit, (registered under “Becasse Bandit” — becasse is French for woodcock) had...
02.16.2014 Sports Outdoors: Buses and rails make for good traveling options Winter travel is indeed tricky for the outdoors person, especially if you’ve set up an extensive trip. Headed for the islands to do some tropical fishing? Headed for the...
08.12.2012 Sports North Fork Outdoors: Finding your way the old-fashioned way We were going to a restaurant the other night with old friends who trialed field dogs with us over the years and asked for directions. One of them pulled...
07.29.2012 Sports North Fork Outdoors: Stuck in a traffic nightmare There’s nothing much to say about traffic jams except they’re unavoidable. Anyone who heads from an urban zone for a holiday in “the country”, i.e. the wilderness of Suffolk,...
07.18.2012 Sports North Fork Outdoors: Here’s how to beat the heat, and catch fish We had just finished a good morning workout, a training session, really, with three bird dogs when another club member arrived on the grounds. We were the only ones...
06.27.2012 Sports North Fork Outdoors: The wise outdoors person is always prepared When I felt the bump of the horse trailer on the curb as I drove through the turnpike toll, I had a bad feeling. Minutes later on the Massachusetts...
06.12.2012 Sports North Fork Outdoors: Different approaches to fishing northeast waters An East End charter skipper once told me he couldn’t wait to get back to Florida for winter action on snook and tarpon. This confession came on a late...
06.07.2012 Sports North Fork Outdoors: Keep on the alert, tick season is here Nothing beats an outdoor dinner when the weather turns “summery” as it did over the Memorial Day weekend. We were sitting down for “happy hour” after a day of...
05.13.2012 Sports North Fork Outdoors: There are options to winter flounder With the demise of the winter flounder fishery now in its second decade, anglers have pretty much come to terms with the loss of our once reliable treat for...