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Season to Season
Out of Hunting Season and into Fishing and Camping Season
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A Harvest
In a civilized and cultivated country wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. The excellent people who protest against all hunting, and consider sportsmen as enemies of wildlife, are ignorant of the fact that in reality the genuine sportsman is by all odds the most important factor in keeping the…
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Back In the Blind
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” ~ Albert Einstein Hunting the Bean After setting up a feeder out at Mesquite Bean Ranch in late October, I’ve finally set up a blind to give it a hunt. I’m actually writing this as I sit on my second evening, a bit cooler…
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Fall Racks
If God wanted us to be vegetarians, he would have made broccoli more fun to shoot. – Earl Dibbles Jr., Singer/Songwriter Just throwing up a post of basically trail cam pics from this fall at Mesquite Bean Ranch. I do apologize for disappearing from the blog for so long (Life). Enjoy the Bucks of the…
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Chupacabra
The chupacabra or chupacabras, literally ‘goat-sucker’; from Spanish: chupar, ‘to suck’, and cabras, ‘goats’) is a legendary creature in the folklore of parts of the Americas, with its first purported sightings reported in Puerto Rico in 1995. – Interweb What Is That Thing?? What do you think? Do you believe they are real? I’m not gonna lie, it…
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Davis Mountains
July 8: A couple of the fort’s leading ladies indulged in a fist fight this morning, the result of differences among their children. – entry in the diary of Sam Newcomb, who taught school at Fort Davis in 1865-1866 First Impression Wow. That’s all we could say once we got our first glimpse of the…
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Heart-Land
“Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.” – Mark Twain The Land Lot 6! This will be the future home of Texan on The Fly. Norma and I have been searching for a piece of property for a few months, and we finally found a little place to make our future home. We love our little…
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Our Fall Collection
“In every walk with Nature one receives far more than he seeks.” – John Muir Our posts have been few and far between lately. There have been some events that have slowed us down a bit the past couple of months and I’ll write more about that in a later post. So for now let’s…
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To Hunt Again
“’The best thing about hunting and fishing,’ the Old Man said, ‘is that you don’t have to actually do it to enjoy it. You can go to bed every night thinking about how much fun you had twenty years ago, and it all comes back clear as moonlight.’” — Robert Ruark Since high school, over…
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Frio
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.” –Socrates So we had ourselves a little quarantine camping trip to the Frio river. We got a little cabin with Norma’s brother and his family and spent a few days playing in the water, grilling, and chillin’. We had…
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Park-O-rama
“I didn’t drive eleven hours across the state of Texas to watch my cholesterol.” ― Robb Walsh Things around here have been a little slow coming out of all this stay at home mess. As we have gotten back into the groove of work and Texas opening back up for business we have found ourselves getting…
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Killing Quarantine Time
Just wanted to drop a short little video to show y’all what Norma has been up to during our time at home. For fun while you watch keep an eye on Charlie “The Trail Dog” this is what he’s really like.
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Fish and Tats
Here’s another video from Bluff Line Media from there Arkansas series. I follow this tattoo artist on instagram and he does some awesome work. Enjoy!
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Spring Hope
Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love. -John Muir
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First Catch and a Park Visit
“Nature is not a place to visit. It is a home.” – Gary Snyder That”s the ONE! My first catch of 2020 was good ol’ bluegill, and quite the little fighter by the way. This trip to the ranch resulted in a couple of bluegill and just one little bass. I didn’t have a lot of…
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Hiking Into 2020
“Come to the woods; for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods.”– John Muir We are off to a good start here in 2020. On January 1st we hit the trails for a first day hike with some friends and family, followed by a group lunch of mexican…
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Good Watch
Haven’t done this on the blog yet, but found a good video on the U-Tubes and thought I would share it. If you like it and would like to see more gems I find let me know and I will post them from time to time. This video is from Bluff Line Media and their…
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Peaking Through The Rear View Mirror
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt Hello Friends! Caleb has been on me to share through this blog, because after all, it is “OUR” adventure blog. So…
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T for Tennessee
“There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.” – Andrew Jackson So our trip is done, and we are back into the rhythm of work and life. Boo! That aside we had a great time and saw some beautiful country. Norma and I…
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Pond Fishing Big Bluegill
Nothing makes a fish bigger than almost being caught – unknown I made a one night run to Choate Fork the other day to fill feeders and give the pond a quick dangle. I didn’t get as much time on the fish as I as was hoping, both feeders had issues and I spent most…
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ChoateFork Record?
“Some go to church and think about fishing, others go fishing and think about God.”– Tony Blake We went out to the ranch for a little down time and to get away from our day jobs for a minute. Something about being unplugged from phones, computers, and tv’s just seems to give some rest to…
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Flies for a Cause, Bows and Arrows.
“Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” ― Teddy Roosevelt We have had a great couple of weeks tying flies at our local Orvis store for Reel Recovery. It was pretty cool to see a packed house turning out two weeks in a row, and…
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New Places, Birthdays, and a Fish
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. -Mark Twain Let’s start with a Happy Birthday to my lovely wife who is just turned “?”. If you follow our Instagram you may have seen a few pics from some of Norma’s B-Day shenanigans. So we’ll share a little…
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Ranch Weekend
“The only thing that never changes is that everything changes.” ― Louis L’Amour We got a bit of bad news from my aunt about two weeks ago. The neighbor next to our ranch got in contact with her to let her know that they found our male elk dead along our fence line. We were a…
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We Can Do This
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter… to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple…
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Change of Plans
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. – Theodore Roosevelt So last week I wrote that we would be attending a fly fishing class this past weekend. Unfortunately I waited a bit too long to sign up and the class was full. I did sign up for…
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Small Step Forward
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. – Henry David Thoreau So before you start something new I guess you have to figure out what you’re doing, right? The answer should be, yes. Now that I want to become a Fly Fisherman I have started to read up…
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BACK TO MY ROOTS
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. — John Muir Photo: Fredricksburg,Tx. I am deciding today to be intentional about my walk with nature. Also, I have decided to write about that walk and share it with whomever wishes to follow. So thank you for coming along. Growing up I…