Field Journal

Anne Marie Doramus: Leading Lady

If you want to talk about Arkansas waterfowl, Anne Marie Doramus will make time for you. But be ready to talk as she rolls down the road because Doramus is...

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Lee Kjos: Eye of the Beholder

After telling the story of American waterfowling for decades, with countless of his images gracing the covers of magazines and serving as the centerpieces of major industry ad campaigns, Lee...

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Roy Belcher: Art of the Silo

It’s 6:42 AM and 22° at charter captain and waterfowl guide Mike Kent’s farm on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. The sun is still announcing itself in a whisper, dawn’s fierce clarity just...

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Cheever Farley: Outdoor Redemption

Cheever Farley is a passionate man, deeply serious about his faith and family. The Texas landman is also a lifelong waterfowler, a man who describes getting “the nod to go”...

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Brent Birch: Guided by History

Brent Birch is an Arkansas duck hunting evangelist, washed in the waters of the White River; first called to testimony when he was six years old at Crockett’s Bluff, a...

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Rain Gear Required

Rain Gear Required

The zip, snap, splash of downpour fishing Zip, snap, splash. The sounds of my raincoat closing, my rod collapsing and the anchor dropping. It’s late afternoon in early summer. Bad...

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Parking Lot Poker—Kenya Style

Parking Lot Poker—Kenya Style

The sun hung high overhead, burnished rays illuminating the waves of dust lifting as each old safari-rigged Land Cruiser rumbled past. Whenever someone walked from their transportation into the small,...

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Blue Lining For Trout: Stepping Off The Beaten Path

Blue Lining For Trout: Stepping Off The Beaten ...

My angling journey began along the coastal waters of Massachusetts. After honing my skills on Cape Cod’s kettle ponds, where stocked trout were plentiful, the challenge of wild fish became...

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Sunrise in El Sargento

Sunrise in El Sargento

Las Brisas tortilleria is the first to stir. A woman flips on the lights, lifts the metal windows, and soon, the ancient machines begin to creak. A few trucks labor...

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The Bar on Top of the World

The Bar on Top of the World

There is a bar at the top of the world. In it, there are no millionaires, no homeless people. There is no advantage in any social status. People are kind...

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From the Editor in Chief: Lagniappe

From the Editor in Chief: Lagniappe

I’m on an early flight, seat 12A, confident in my ability to assist in an emergency and therefore righteously ensconced in the exit row. En route from my home in...

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Darien Boat Dance Parties

Darien Boat Dance Parties

It's May off Colombia’s northwestern coast and we’re sweltering in the heat and humidity to chase fish. Namely yellowfin tuna, cubera snapper, and mullet snapper. We dream of hooking into...

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I am a Duck Hunter

I am a Duck Hunter

It’s around Christmas, and I sit alone in the dark in a small duck blind, listening to the coyote barking in the adjacent field and the ducks flying past in...

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