The first week of August will always remind of my freshman year at Furman when freshman football players had to report three days ahead of the upperclassman. It was certainly the biggest change of our young lives. About 20 of us arrived on campus, not knowing each other or even if we could cut it as college football players. Furman …
The first week of November 2015 was a prime time for the rut in the Upstate of South Carolina. I had just started a new job about a year earlier after working for one employer for 25 years. Still unsure of the culture of my new employer, I did not want to set a bad example by slipping out early …
While there are probably many sites dedicated to “how to surf fish,” I want to talk about “why” we surf fish. Growing up in the 70’s and 80’s in the Upstate of South Carolina, my family took numerous trips to the beach. We usually took in the sand, waves, seafood restaurants and amusement parks but we NEVER surf fished. Our …
In March of 2020 during the midst of Covid, my 17-year-old son, Eli, and I were at our lake property. While rummaging through a utility building where we kept an assortment of boating gear, Eli saw a box full of strange devices made of PVC pipe, pool noodles, fishing line and hooks. He asked why we had these strange devices. …