Description
Book SynopsisDelightful tales of hunting and fishing, family, friends, dogs, and precious time well spent and cherished Nationally recognized and award-winning writer Jim Mize captures the true essence of sport and living life to the fullest in this collection of stories about his outdoor escapades. In tales spanning more than five decades, Mize invites readers into carefree days hiking through the Colorado Rockies with a fly rod and leisurely casting poppers to bluegill on small southern ponds. Cold days shivering in a duck blind or deer hunting trips lost in fog all make for fine memories. And then there are the dogs. Meet boot-eating Labs, setters with fine noses, and a Brittany Spaniel that loved to bounce through frosted kudzu. Mize's humorous stories entertain and remind readers of their own turkey hunting or creek fishing excursions. Black-and-white line drawings from artist Bob White illustrate stories filled with laughter, quiet contemplation, and wonder. Mize reminds the young and old that the pleasure of the pursuit matters most.
Table of Contents
- Foreword by Jim Casada
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Preface
Across Generations
- First Pup
- Your Day Will Come
- Kids Do Say the Darndest Things
- The Jon Boat Years
- Another Letter to a Grandson
- A Letter to a Granddaughter
- Fishing with Others
- If a Tree Falls
- My Buddy's Fishing Hole
- The Seabee Jacket
- After Dark
- Fishing Directions
- Old Guys in a Boat
- A Lesson Twice Learned
- Fishing Odd Hatches
- Yellow Damn Jackets
- Carpy Diem
- Along Came a Spider
- Fishing the Mosquito Hatch
- A Whiff of Skunk
- Stir Crazy
- Low Expectations
- Jinxed
- Into the Backing
- Gone with the Wind Knot
- Fly Fishing for Suckers
- The Colorado Years
- Freedom
- Coldcocked
- Skinny-Dipping with Cutties
- The Fish of a Lifetime
- Pondering Deer Stuff
- Hunting with KP
- Hunting in the Haunted House
- The Deer Who Wore Camo
- Custer's Last Deer Stand
- Pondering Deer Stuff
- A Class in Ethics
- In Pursuit of Bearded Birds
- How to Name Your Turkey
- The Turkey Chainsaw Massacre
- Almost a Lion Story
- Growing Your Gobbler
- Of Ducks and Dogs
- Blurred Memories
- A Quack's Guide to Duck Calls
- Reasons for Owning a Dog
- My Steel Shot Rusted
- Upland Birds
- Hunting the Pole
- Kudzu Quail
- Hunting the Hurricane
- The Christmas Gift
- Winders
- An Old Red Shirt
