Clint's Column

Invasive Insect Species

It’s amazing how some of the smallest critters living amongst us can do so much damage. Some of them carry diseases like ticks and mosquitoes, and others kill trees like the gypsy moth, hemlock woolly adelgid, and the emerald ash borer. The tree killing insects are invasive species that have...

The Outer Banks

This summer we decided to take a vacation to a place we’ve never visited before.  It had been at least 10 years since Tara and I had been to the beach so we decided to spend a week in the Outer Banks of North Carolina.  I’ve stated several times in...

West Virginia Day

On June 20, 1863 West Virginia became the 35th state admitted to the Union. The land was rugged and huge virgin timber towered over these hills and hollows. Most early settlers staked out the rich fertile bottomlands first. Along these rivers huge virgin oaks, walnuts, yellow poplars, sycamores and other...

Fishing with the Family

Fishing with the Family

It’s that time of the year again where yard chores keep piling up and even with the longer days it’s still a job just to keep up. The yard needs mowed, the garden needs tending too, flower beds need weeded, food plots need brush hogged, and the list goes on....

Best Day Ever

Best Day Ever

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Last week, I had what could quite possibly be the best fishing day ever. The recent rains have kept the rivers running full and off color. My fishing days have been limited so far but I made up for it one evening last week. I don’t fish...

The Silent Gobbler

The Silent Gobbler

It was another fun morning in the springtime woods the last weekend in April. The weather was perfect and you couldn’t pick a better morning to be out chasing turkeys around. I could already here the turkeys gobbling as I made my way out to my morning listening spot. There...

It’s Officially Spring

Spring is in full gear now with the days getting longer and the nights getting shorter. The redbud and dogwoods are blooming and the warmer temperatures are here to stay. The birds are not only chirping but they’re gobbling as well as the first week of the 2017 spring gobbler...

New Waders

It’s always exciting when you buy new things especially when it comes to hunting and fishing gear. I tend to make sure I get the full use out of mine to the point where I have no choice to replace the ones that are falling apart. Take my current pair...

Vacationing in WV

With the first day of spring arriving this past week, I’ve been thinking about getting away for a weekend real soon. I love traveling around West Virginia and seeing all the natural beauty it has to offer. There are so many neat places to visit and so much to do...

A Month Ahead

A Month Ahead

Couleur / PixabaySpring has sprung a month early in the West Virginia mountains with daffodils and even forsythia in full bloom ahead of schedule. I can’t remember ever seeing the signs of spring so early in February. The grass has greened up and is growing. I’ve already heard spring peepers...

Up and Down

With this crazy weather, you never know what you’re going to get from one day to the next. Take last month for example, the beginning of January started out with some snow and wind chills in the single digits for the first weekend. A week later I was walking around...

The Striped Skunk

Have you noticed a putrid smell in the air recently?Or why Pepe Le Pew is associated with love and Valentines Day? And most noticeably, more road killed skunks? The reason for all of the above is that right now is mating season for the striped skunks, which is the species...

Hemorrhagic Disease

In late summer and early fall, residents in Gilmer, Logan, Hampshire and Hardy counties started noticing dead deer.The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources (WVDNR) received numerous calls and samples have been sent off to be tested. The culprit for the deceased deer is likely due to hemorrhagic disease.So what...

The Winter Months

It’s been warm this past week but one step outside the weekend before instantly reminded me that the winter months are here.The thermometer hovered in the single digits with wind chills below zero. Fresh snow covered the ground as well as fresh tracks from the all of the critters that...

Deer Season comes to an end

It’s hard to believe that another year has passed by and deer season is over.As December ends it’s time to oil the rifle and put it back in the gun case until next fall. I finally picked up all of my hunting stuff and washed all of those clothes that...

Deer Season is almost over

It’s hard to believe that it’s almost Christmas and another deer season is almost over.The 2016 buck season totals are in and hunters took 45,871 bucks during those two weeks. As predicted, this year’s buck harvest was down 25% from the 2015 total of 60,814 bucks taken.Tucker County hunters took...

Still Fishing

Still Fishing

The calendar says it’s November but it sure doesn’t feel like it. So far it’s been a warm and late fall and still feels like summer out there. I usually get serious about deer hunting around Halloween but this year we decided to go fishing instead. Up until this past weekend...

2016 Mast Survey

It has been a late start to fall so far with the lack of rain in September and up until this past week, color to the landscape. In normal years the leaves always peak in central West Virginia around October 14-18. They are at least a week late this year...

You Snooze, You Lose

If you asked me what was the number one advancement in the hunting world that I’ve witnessed in my lifetime it would be when trail cameras hit the market. I’m old enough to remember the time before trail cameras when you had to search the woods for buck rubs and...

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