Tuesday, August 3, 2004

Fun in the mud and doves Hey, y'all. Dat Yooper game warden John Walker sent me another great story under the guise of a "Fishing Report." Look for it under "Stories." Just click that word over on the right and you'll go right to it. ---> John's books, along with a bunch more books, will soon be for sale in Dan's Mall on my main website. (Note to Webmaster Les: info coming your way soon) We taped our last new Outdoor Wisconsin program for the season today. Look for it this week. (Thu. in Wis., with repeats Sat. or Sun.; elsewhere, check local listings.) One of the segments is a dove hunt we shot last September with Rob Kieckhefer, president of the Wisconsin Dove Hunters Assoc., Jerry Solsrud, founder of the Wisconsin Waterfowl Assoc., and Steve Williams of Wern Valley Sportsmen's Club, along with Steve's Uncle Dave and Craig Leair. It was fun editing the segment to cut out all of Uncle Dave's colorful remarks (That didn't leave him much to say!) when the rest of us missed a bird, which happened with alarming regularity. If you have never shot doves, you probably wonder what I'm talking about. You southern boys know darn well what I mean. Anyway, Wisconsin now has a dove season and we'll be taping another hunt on Opening Day with a couple who shot over 200 birds in Wisconsin last year. That's a lot of good eating! BTW, speaking of eating, Steve whipped up a dandy dove-kabob shore lunch for us, which I only wish you could taste. We're working on smellovision so you can at least enjoy the aroma, but haven't perfected that new technology yet. BTW again. When reviewing this week's show tape this morning, I happened to catch Martha Stewart going native on her show. I thought it was an episode of "Survivor" for a minute! She was taking a sea kayaking lesson apparently in the Northwest or Canada and then grilling salmon in the field with some native people who shared some traditional wisdom about loving Mother Earth. Martha seconded their thoughts, but then I suspect she'd be happy to be grilling anything anywhere right about now. Later... 10:48:24 PM    comment []