08.17.2014 Sports Outdoors: Serving as a guide has its challenges As a university instructor and professor, I’ve spent a lifetime teaching students the fine points of math, science and history. While teaching in schools can be challenging at times,...
07.27.2014 Sports Outdoors: Keep car care in mind during summer trips Midsummer is vacation time for a lot of us. Local beaches are starting to draw crowds, local restaurants are starting to fill up with “touristas” from points west, and...
06.29.2014 Sports Outdoors: So you caught a fish, now what? A good friend of ours who happens to be a terrific angler has often remarked that we’re foolish to “keep” fish for the table when all we have to...
06.15.2014 Sports Outdoors Column: How about ‘Mentor’s Day?’ During the run up to Fathers’ Day, outdoor publications fill up with stories and pieces like “Take a Boy Hunting (Fishing)” or republish old chestnuts such as the “The...
06.09.2014 Outdoors Outdoors: New fishing regulations seen as mostly positive What a difference a week makes! Before May 1, if you looked at the 2014 summer flounder (“fluke”) regulations, you saw a minimum size limit of 19 inches, a...
05.25.2014 Sports Outdoors: Tackling fishing test lines A few weeks ago we got a call from an editor to write a piece on scup, our favorite saltwater panfish, maybe our favorite fish, period. But the angle...
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....
03.30.2014 Sports Outdoors: Alas, March continues to roar like a lion As we write a late March column, it’s fun to look out a window and see blue sky. In the morning, on the way to work, I hear competing...