For many people, their offshore fishing experience begins and ends with the brief federal red snapper season during the summer. However, in Texas state waters, which extend out to nine nautical miles from shore, one can catch red snapper and many other species all year long.
Everyone is familiar with squirrels. In certain areas, gray squirrels are the most common. In other areas it is the larger fox squirrel. There is another squirrel that you might see, however, and it is jet black.
It is quiet, but it is not total silence. The steady hum of insects of the night buzz like an old television stuck on the static of dead air. The air is crisp and damp, and it smells like dead leaves and dirt.
When you’re offshore fishing, the horizon seems untouchable, the vast expanse gives an immediate sense of freedom. I didn’t know another place could duplicate that feeling, until seeing the Prairies of South Dakota.
Stan Murray believes in being active. He spent more than 40 years working in the banking business and nearly 30 years as an on field official for South Eastern Conference football.
Andy Johnson has been many things in his life. He’s a successful community banker in Northeast Mississippi. He is a husband. He is a proud father of two. But it’s safe to say that his mind often wanders to the rivers and streams of the American West.
Joe Bostick is a friendly, quiet, unassuming man. The owner of Bostick Construction in Columbus, Mississippi, Bostick’s open-handed and soft-spoken demeanor give no hint as to his passion in life – building and driving off road vehicles.
Corey Ellis works at a local steel mill in Lowndes County, Mississippi. He loves his job, but it’s fair to say that his real passion is that most American of species - the wild turkey. Ellis has been hunting the wild birds since he was 15 years old.
Take one step into Bill Laws’s office and his love of fishing is immediately apparent. His walls are covered with trophies of fish, pictures of fish, rods and reels, lures, and flies – many of which he made by hand.
Aaron Oberschmit, a Mississippi banker, has been an avid outdoorsman all his life. “Basically, as soon as I could walk up a ladder into a deer stand, I’ve been an outdoorsman,” he said. During deer season in Mississippi, Oberschmit goes hunting at least three times a week. He enjoys both bow and gun hunting.
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