Lemons become lemonade? How about gravel pit becomes fishing Mecca?
“Sunset Lake was an abandoned gravel pit that has been turned into an outdoor recreation opportunity,” Curtis McCormack, Parks and Recreation director for Bent…
Stories by James K. Joslin
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In your own back yard
The state of Arkansas encompasses a little more than 53,000 square miles. Of that amount, our Natural State anglers are blessed with about 600,000 acres of lak…
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Valencia offers fishing, exercise, beauty
Gordon Borst has been with the Parks and Recreation Department in Maumelle for 20 years, the last five of which he has served as assistant director. In that ti…
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Youth hunt yields more than turkeys
The growing sounds of a vehicle’s tires crunching gravel revealed a single, plain-white truck crawling up the hill toward the fire ring where children, parents…
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Youth hunt yields more than turkeys
The growing sounds of a vehicle’s tires crunching gravel revealed a single, plain-white truck crawling up the hill toward the fire ring where children, parents…
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Youth hunt yields more than turkeys
The growing sounds of a vehicle’s tires crunching gravel revealed a single, plain-white truck crawling up the hill toward the fire ring where children, parents…
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Land management for deer a puzzle
If you’re more likely to be found in a tree stand than a tree house, you’ve probably heard terms such as quality deer management, cull bucks, food plots and bu…
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Land management for deer a puzzle
If you’re more likely to be found in a tree stand than a tree house, you’ve probably heard terms such as quality deer management, cull bucks, food plots and bu…
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Land management for deer a puzzle
If you’re more likely to be found in a tree stand than a tree house, you’ve probably heard terms such as quality deer management, cull bucks, food plots and bu…
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outdoors Fun of deer season never ends when you hunt shed antlers
The first shed white-tailed deer antler I found was a discovery that came about totally by accident. I didn’t deer hunt when I was a teenager because I had no …
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outdoors: Deer season never ends when you hunt shed antlers
The first shed white-tailed deer antler I found was a discovery that came about totally by accident. I didn’t deer hunt when I was a teenager because I had no …
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outdoors Fun of deer season never ends when you hunt shed antlers
The first shed white-tailed deer antler I found was a discovery that came about totally by accident. I didn’t deer hunt when I was a teenager because I had no …
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Outdoors: NO BOAT, NO PROBLEM
For someone who truly loves the outdoors and fishing, hardly anything can beat a day of chasing sunfish through a blackwater bayou in an old flat-bottom ; time…
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Outdoors: Bank fishing a low-cost way to reel in supper
For someone who truly loves the outdoors and fishing, hardly anything can beat a day of chasing sunfish through a blackwater bayou in an old f lat-bottom ; tim…
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Outdoors: No boat, no problem
For someone who truly loves the outdoors and fishing, hardly anything can beat a day of chasing sunfish through a blackwater bayou in an old flat-bottom ; time…
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Outdoors: A home away from home
A little more than a year ago, I found an intriguing post on an Arkansas-based hunting and fishing chat site. The fellow who contributed the comments was a tra…
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Outdoors: Camp far from being old ‘Hole in the Wall’
A little more than a year ago, I found an intriguing post on an Arkansas-based hunting and fishing chat site. The fellow who contributed the comments was a tra…
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Outdoors: Camp far from being old ‘Hole in the Wall’
A little more than a year ago, I found an intriguing post on an Arkansas-based hunting and fishing chat site. The fellow who contributed the comments was a tra…
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outdoors: Wildlife farms
You know how hard it is to explain one of those truly memorable experiences? How you really don’t know where to begin describing the events, the people, the pl…
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outdoors: PIECE OF PARADISE
You know how hard it is to explain one of those truly memorable experiences? How you really don’t know where to begin describing the events, the people, the pl…
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Tunica not just slots, it's also slabs
Flowing along the eastern border of The Natural State is the Mississippi River. The river has many nicknames.
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Tunica experience not just slots, it's also slabs
Flowing along the eastern border of The Natural State is the Mississippi River. The river has many nicknames.
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Tunica offers both slots and slabs
Flowing along the eastern border of The Natural State is the Mississippi River. The river has many nicknames.
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This spring a record breaker?
That brief bout of wintry weather to end February was one of Old Man Winter's final flurries for the season here in Arkansas.
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This spring a record breaker?
That brief bout of wintry weather to end February was one of Old Man Winter's final f lurries for the season here in Arkansas.
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This spring a record breaker?
That brief bout of wintry weather to end February was one of Old Man Winter's final flurries for the season here in Arkansas.
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'Superior' ADVENTURE
The conversation began innocently enough, with me asking one of the professors about his photos in the office where I did my work-study at Arkansas Tech. Those…
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'SUPERIOR' ADVENTURE
The conversation began innocently enough, with me asking one of the professors about his photos in the office where I did my work-study at Arkansas Tech. Those…
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' Superior ' ADVENTURE
The conversation began innocently enough, with me asking one of the professors about his photos in the office where I did my work-study at Arkansas Tech. Those…
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He's my friend, he's 'my' soldier
I can't remember exactly when or where I met him. All I know is that he's been "Pods" ever since Jay, who served as the best man at my wedding, brought him int…
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He's my friend, he's 'my' soldier
I can't remember exactly when or where I met him. All I know is that he's been "Pods" ever since Jay, who served as the best man at my wedding, brought him int…
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He's my friend, he's 'my' soldier
I can't remember exactly when or where I met him. All I know is that he's been "Pods" ever since Jay, who served as the best man at my wedding, brought him int…
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GUNS GEAR AND OTHER GREAT GIFTS
Having grown up in the shadow of the rice mills of Stuttgart, known as the Rice & Duck Capital of the World, I was from an early age aware of duck hunting'…
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Guns, gear and other great gifts
Having grown up in the shadow of the rice mills of Stuttgart, known as the Rice and Duck Capital of the World, I was from an early age aware of duck hunting's …
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Guns, gear and other GREAT GIFTS
Having grown up in the shadow of the rice mills of Stuttgart, known as the Rice and Duck Capital of the World, I was from an early age aware of duck hunting's …
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Use C4 for explosive Arkansas River bass action
Yes, I know what you are thinking. The joke goes something like this: There was this one fellow who was always catching fish, even when no one else seemed to b…
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Use C4 for Arkansas River bass action
Yes, I know what you are thinking. The joke goes something like this: There was this one fellow who was always catching fish, even when no one else seemed to b…
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A bigger BANG
Yes, I know what you are thinking. The joke goes something like this: There was this one fellow who was always catching fish, even when no one else seemed to b…
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Yes, there is something good in Texas
Being a child of the old SWC - that's the Southwest Conference for you youngtimers - I grew up believing that Texas was one of the most absolutely mean, evil a…
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Yes, there is something GOOD IN TEXAS
Being a child of the old SWC - that's the Southwest Conference for you youngtimers - I grew up believing that Texas was one of the most absolutely mean, evil a…
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Yes, there is something good in Texas
Being a child of the old SWC - that's the Southwest Conference for you youngtimers - I grew up believing that Texas was one of the most absolutely mean, evil a…
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Lost angling art form
Doodlesockin' . Yes, I said doodlesockin' .
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Doodlesockin' - legal in all 50 states : maybe
Doodlesockin' . Yes, I said doodlesockin' .
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Doodlesockin'
Doodlesockin' . Yes, I said doodlesockin' .
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Nature's guide to fishing
I have always heard people say it like this: "The best time to go fishing is whenever you get the chance!" Yes, that might ring true, but there are some ways t…
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Nature's guide to fishing
I have always heard people say it like this: "The best time to go fishing is whenever you get the chance!" Yes, that might ring true, but there are some ways t…
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Nature's guide to FISHING
I have always heard people say it like this: "The best time to go fishing is whenever you get the chance!" Yes, that might ring true, but there are some ways t…
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Snows in the forecast for Arkansas through April
In addition to the snow that blanketed much of the state in the last week, there's another forecast of snows on the horizon. This forecast for snows is related…
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A late-winter gathering
In addition to the snow that blanketed much of the state in the last week, there's another forecast of snows on the horizon. This forecast for snows is related…
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'Snows' in the Arkansas forecast through April
In addition to the snow that blanketed much of the state in the past week, there's another forecast of snows on the horizon. This forecast for snows is related…
