02.03.2014 Sports Outdoors: Those old catalogs bring back fond memories The calendar on our wall tells us the solstice is only seven weeks away. Spring training begins when pitchers and catchers report in three weeks! Yet, as each arctic...
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...
07.18.2012 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...
04.28.2012 Sports North Fork Outdoors: Falls are part of the horseback game Lots of outdoors persons, here and elsewhere, enjoy horses and horseback activities. And so do we. But, as in any exercise involving the outdoors, accidents are part of the...
04.05.2012 Sports North Fork Outdoors: Flounder stocks are nothing like they used to be Turning a page on the calendar and opening a fishing magazine last weekend brought back memories of seasons past. April was our prime flounder month. Until some 20 years...
03.27.2012 Sports North Fork Outdoors: Emphasize safety in long-distance driving The calendar cautions us, but, looking outside at current daytime temperatures in the 60s, we can’t help but turn a couple of pages. And with spring/summer on the mind...