In muddy marsh waters in Texas and Louisiana, I always have a popping cork, a 20-pound flourocarbon leader cut to the right depth and a jighead with a Gulp! We all have fond childhood memories of ...

When I was a boy and stalked catfish in the creek on our farm, we used the “cut-willow-pole-and-pocket-cord method.” That involved a float and a worm-baited hook tossed into the water, and you sat and ...

Along the riverside inside the Feather River Nature Center, there is a specimen of cork oak on the shelf. The slab of wood showing the cross section clearly reveals the cork outer bark, the stuff of ...