Recent content by Rick Pierce

More than the burned stubble, the number of fields that are disked, smoothed, and prepped for the spring by the end of October is disheartening. In the past five years, I've seen more brown dirt in the prime duck holding areas of Arkansas than ever before. And as you said, the fields that are...

Eric, The adage that has been tossed around for a while is, "nobody hates a duck hunter more than another duck hunter". Everyone wants to have an area to themselves - it's just a fact. When I went back to trout fish in the Driftless last summer, I bypassed entire streams because of the cars...

I had an aluminum homebuilt skiff of sorts that I pushpoled around the Raft Creek WMA when it first opened. The first spot I drew felt like a mile of poling, and I was stripped to the waist, only my t-shirt on by the time I was about halfway, and it was in the low 40's. There were people on...

I've always wanted a Barnegat sneak...totally impractical for Arkansas as there aren't many places to use it, but I love that it is kind of the ultimate purpose-built boat. The fiberglass wouldn't do well in the flooded timber and cypress knees, but using it on some of the rivers and a few...

Yes. This proposed legislation is the cause of much wailing and gnashing of teeth on another hunting website. I live in Arkansas, so I'm not going to say that I don't understand the Kansas residents wanting to go back to "the good old days" of about 20 years ago when there were almost no out...

What is it they say, "everybody has a plan until they get hit in the face"? Lol. That stream is where I caught my first trout on a fly, at the age of 13-14. The photo was from my first time back up in that area in about 30 years. On that trip, my wife caught a nice brown trout in the same...

Nice painting...reminds me of a photo someone took of me while I was trout fishing a few years ago. Has that same feel of an honest moment captured.

A woman was talking to her best friend... "When I started dating Joe twenty years ago, I asked him, 'what bad habits do you have?' and he said, 'I don't smoke, I don't do drugs, I don't play cards or bet on horses, I don't golf or shoot pool, I don't run with easy women or prostitutes...my only...

I've seen one of his before; I think he makes a good product...just didn't know if he was still doing it or not.

Ok, so I see Diane at Custom Decoy Bags is shutting down her business. Is there anyone that still makes slot bags for decoys? I'm not really a fan of any of the commercial bags I've bought over the years; my Avery bags all have dry rotted handles and need to be replaced...only made it 20 years...

I still have the Barney plans...want to build a boat so badly I can taste it, but if I have another boat it might cost me a wife, so I just dream....lol

The last time I was in NOLA was about six months after Katrina...it still looked like "Escape from New York". I do want to go back, but I have a hard time getting that vision out of my head. I was volunteering through Rotary helping rebuild houses in areas outside of NOLA, and we went into...

With that back deck it looks a lot like a rail skiff...but not...

I think Lou Tisch at Lock, Stock and Barrel used to sell them...did a quick image search and that was the first image on the page... Edit to add...he did. They were 6 foot long fiberglass, either kit or finished.