Time is a funny thing with how it can drag so slowly and yet speed by you, often simultaneously. That thought hit me with a simple glance at my desk calendar this week. As this issue of The Star News hits local newsstands Thursday afternoon, it’s been 10 weeks since we last covered a game or competition of any sort. Since I dove head-first into sports reporting at The Lakeland Times about

An Outdoorsman’s Journal Brookies on the Buffalo Hello friends, Ten years ago, when Reece Frase and Bret Kostka were 8 years old, I met them while they were fishing from shore in front of my cabin at Birch Point Resort on Marsh Miller Lake. My daughter Selina was on that adventure and I helped these boys, invited them in for dinner, and that was the start of a very cool friendship. For

Late last week, the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest lifted the closure order for boat landings (except for some within closed campgrounds). In addition, both motorized and non-motorized trails on the National Forest will be open May 8 or when local conditions allow for opening. Check the forest website or with your local county to see what trails are open before heading out. While the boat

Hello friends, The best times that I have had while turkey hunting were while helping someone else get a turkey. This past week I hunted with my 19-year-old daughter Selina Walters on a food plot near our Necedah home. Nine years ago Selina and I created this food plot, which was literally an opening in an oak and pine forest. Three years ago this piece of paradise where Selina has harvested

Lake Michigan for coho and the 360-degree wind Hello friends, Here is the scenario. I am in a turkey blind, my computer is set up on a chair and I am hen pecking this week’s column to you while I hunt turkeys, which is the field work for next week’s column. Sunday, April 19 High 52, Low 30 I am driving to Milwaukee with a canoe on the top of a truck that is about to hit 300,000 miles.

Hello friends, To the best of my memory, until this past week, I have only had two experiences on the Menominee River in Marinette. The first time was when I canoed the entire Menominee River back in about the year 2000 and ended my trip at Marinette. The other was when I hiked on the ice from Marinette to Green Bay and then north to Gills Rock on the Door County peninsula. Both of those experiences