Hal Herring

Nov 17, 2024 | fieldandstream.com | T. Edward Nickens |Will Brantley |Hal Herring

The river is on fire, lit with 4,000 watts of spotlight bolted to the bow. I watch the men on the front deck, a pair of silhouettes against a river that glows green, blue, and yellow, like a witch’s cauldron. Each figure holds the long shaft of a wicked gig, the barbed tines fat as cigars. The man on the right suddenly tenses, shifts forward, and slides the tip of the 14-foot-long pole into the water. The boat shifts in pursuit, the gigger on the bow deck tracking his target.

Nov 12, 2024 | fieldandstream.com | Will Brantley |T. Edward Nickens |Hal Herring

I ALMOST QUIT duck hunting last season. It was a gradual slide that began with storing my decoys in a buddy’s barn while we were between houses. That fall, I bought my duck stamp and filled out my HIP survey with all the usual intentions. But then I skipped the Thanksgiving opener and most of December. Meanwhile, my decoys sat in that barn, in the rafters above a horse stall, gathering dust. And I’ll tell you, horses are dusty animals.

Oct 28, 2024 | fieldandstream.com | Hal Herring |Colin Kearns |David E. Petzal |Will Brantley

The country stretches out wide in the sweep of early sun, the big Animus Mountains of purple and deep orange cliffs towering there like a fortress.

Oct 15, 2024 | fieldandstream.com | Colin Kearns |David E. Petzal |Hal Herring |Phil Bourjaily

We don’t often cover books on F&S.com—but when we do, it’s about ones that we either love or ones written by an author we admire. Both of those criteria apply to Valley So Low: One Lawyer’s Fight for Justice in the Wake of America’s Great Coal Catastrophe.

Aug 19, 2024 | fieldandstream.com | David E. Petzal |Sage Marshall |Matthew Every |Hal Herring

_We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more ›_IN 1897, a group of hunters, anglers, and explorers who loved the wilderness, but whose professions confined them to the New York City area, decided to organize themselves into a club. They were a highly educated and literate group of men, and when they looked for a name that summed up everything they cherished in the outdoors, there was only one real choice.