I grew up fishing for bass and panfish for the most part like most people in the Midwest who fish. When I was in middle school my dad got way into bass fishing and was part of the semi-pro bass tournament circuit in the Midwest so I used to get dragged all over the place to fish. We mostly threw plastic worms, spinners and crank baits but at times I would fly fish for them. When I moved to Des Moines after college I got serious about fly fishing for bass and spent many days on the Middle Fork of the Raccoon fishing for smallmouth or out at a lake fishing for largemouth.
Monthly Archives: July 2020
Camping in the pandemic
Last week we finally broke out the NOBO and headed over to the Teanaway Forest, one of the closest places to home where campgrounds were now open after COVID related closures followed by a 23-day manhunt for a murderer who was holed up in the area. Turns out I was turkey hunting on a day when the guy who killed another turkey hunter was on the loose and Catherine and I were foraging another day, they just hadn’t announced it and started the closure yet,.