Like many activities, fishing is ripe with trendy expressions.
During the past couple of years, “flash bite” has become common, its usage applied to short periods of fish...
Bright holiday runs are past, and the long, cold trudge toward spring begins.
For runners in Western Pennsylvania, these next months can be challenging as some begin mara...
With 2025 off to an icy start, and the start of the new year seems appropriate to look back on last year’s activities, which for me included fishing to a large extent, ha...
Ready or not, here it is — the new year.
This week, many of us will make promises to ourselves in the form of New Year’s resolutions. It’s exciting and challenging to vie...
“Should I stay, or should I go?
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The chorus from The Clash’s early 1980s rock song often sticks in my head during fishing trips, an earworm likely generated by a nag...
It’s been five years since my column checked in with this race, but not much has changed. Zelienople’s Reindeer Race, this Saturday at 9 a.m., continues as a favorite fam...
For late November, the conditions were ideal. Light south wind, partly cloudy skies, afternoon highs in the mid-40s.
The spots we were fishing are familiar to me, modest-...
After the golden, unusually warm fall, winter has arrived with an arctic blast.
But the sudden change didn’t dampen runners’ spirits at two of last week’s Thanksgiving ra...
Late fall and Pymatuning walleyes. It’s become a tradition for me; and based on the number of boats I witnessed there last week, the same is true for others.
It’s been mo...
Thanksgiving is a time when friends and family gather, and not just around the dinner table. Two area races invite family, friends and teammates, past and present, to run...
