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Articles

Outdoors Column: Walks unspoiled fill in the wrinkles of the mind

Jan 11, 2025 | cdispatch.com | Kevin Tate

Once upon a time, the Boy and I walked in cool shadows and warm sunshine on a day before the hard cold arrived, over sharp hills and foot bridges, past a bubbling spring and under great outcroppings of rock that drew his full attention. It was a good start to a New Year that lies now long ago. “This is beautiful,” the Boy had said, and it made my heart glad.
Outdoors Column: Christmas gifts when they’re small yield much larger memories later on

Nov 30, 2024 | cdispatch.com | Kevin Tate

They ran downstairs, feet slipping across carpet thanks to footed pajamas, grinning with expressions of delight at a small pile of childhood happiness. They took in the loot Santa had left them with bright, wide-eyed faces, happy shrieks and unvarnished delight. It was a scene, repeated each Christmas morning throughout their young childhoods, that made the great night-before-Christmas putting-together sessions worth it. Pretty much. Our children are both now essentially grown.
Outdoors Feature: Best list of outdoor loot compiled with any enthusiast in mind

Nov 30, 2024 | cdispatch.com | Kevin Tate

Wool socks, flannel blankets, high-performance camo clothing and handy tools galore top the suggested gifts list for those shopping for hunting and fishing enthusiasts this year. Hunter Partlow, of Hunter’s Haven, in Tupelo, said this season’s most-sought items begin with warmth and comfort and extend to tools, decoys and much more. One of the more innovative products on the market these days is the Turtlebox outdoor speaker.
Outdoors Feature: Competition calls to Howell on bass tournament trail

Nov 23, 2024 | cdispatch.com | Kevin Tate

Even after seven high school tournament wins an an angler of the year award on the high school trail, Skip Howell says his best day on the water was a simple afternoon spent with his dad at Lake Monroe. “He and I went after school one day this past January, and I caught a 9-pounder right before we were about to leave,” Howell said with a smile. Many of his favorite times are focused around his dad, who helped get him started after bass several years ago, though that wasn’t the original mission.
Outdoors Column: The best-earned rewards are always more meaningful

Nov 23, 2024 | cdispatch.com | Kevin Tate

The mountainside fell down from a rocky peak and into a long, narrow valley. It was the place where three smaller rivers twisted their way out of steeper, darker places and joined to make one. In the fading afternoon light the wind sang gently. The Rockies are a land about as brutal as they are beautiful. So often in nature, it seems, the two go together. Come morning and afternoon we hiked through sage and sarvisberry, through aspen, scrub oak and pine, up hills that make themselves into mountains.
Outdoors Feature: Falling, finally: Fewer hours of daylight lead to cooler water, hotter bass

Nov 9, 2024 | cdispatch.com | Kevin Tate

With daylight hours growing shorter and the big waters beginning to cool, schooling shad are drawing frenzied bass and opportunities for fast action to the surface. Finding the bass, in particular, means finding the shad or working the areas where they’re apt to be. Running in schools, smaller shad are typically found deep inside coves and pockets at this time of year, while the larger shad will be using more open stretches of water.
Outdoors Column: Leadership is demonstrated, not announced

Nov 9, 2024 | cdispatch.com | Kevin Tate

The Old Man watched the people arguing with an expression that was half bemusement, half disgust. A disagreement between two guys ahead of us at our favorite boat ramp had become a shouting match. “They’re both missing the big picture,” he said. “Well, the second one has a point,” I said. “The other one was taking too long. No wonder his patience was worn out.”“Dumb guys let their patience wear out,” the Old Man said. “Smart guys teach their patience to expand.
Outdoors feature: Hide and hair: Many options to make the most of deer harvests

Nov 2, 2024 | cdispatch.com | Kevin Tate

Creativity and the option to preserve and use more parts of a deer than the meat and head alone bring the outdoors lifestyle into the everyday in ways that also bring the woods into closer contact with those who enjoy them most. From small decorative accents to key elements of life used every day, ideas for what to do with the otherwise leftover parts of deer are limited only by the bounds of imagination. One of the most useful and adaptable items is the deer’s hide.
Outdoors column: Using more than enough gun has its effect

Nov 2, 2024 | cdispatch.com | Kevin Tate

The Boy took his time settling the crosshairs on what was about to be his first deer of the season. He squeezed the trigger, said, “Bull’s-eye!” and, 15 minutes later, found the doe at the end of its last trail on his own. At 13, he was in his eighth year of hunting with a rifle, the first six of which were accomplished with a single shot .223 cut to size, the more recent with a .270 ideal for a young hunter.
Outdoors Column: Wingshooting lessons require experience to inform the message

Oct 19, 2024 | cdispatch.com | Kevin Tate

It had been a cool morning for early fall, and daylight came wrapped in thick fog. Doves began flying before sunrise and the action continued nearly through noon. I had occupied a stand alone for the first time, working well away from any other shooter while I figured things out for myself. Now the morning was done. Our truck’s tailgate lay open. I lay my dove bucket on its side and tipped it up from the bottom. Four birds and six empty shell boxes slid out.