Jim Casada

Spring is in the air and in the woods

If turkeys won’t gobble, take advantage of all the other opportunities springs offers.

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Area churches combined fellowship and outdoor experience

Second Baptist Church in Chester and West End Baptist on McConnells Highway holding events outdoor-themed fellowship events.
JIM CASADA

Beating the winter miseries

We are now square in the midst of that portion of the year my Grandpa Joe described as “the time of miseries.” He detested being house-bound thanks to adverse winter weather, and by the time late January and February rolled around, his patience with gray and grim days, punctuated ...
JIM CASADA

Beating the winter-time blues

Whether described as cabin fever, winter time blues, the blahs or, as my grandfather put it in his pithy way, 'miseries,' this time of year can be frustrating for those who love the outdoors.
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Getting ready for dove season

That glad and glorious day so beloved by hunters, the opening of dove season, lies just under a month away. This year finds one noteworthy change from practices which have prevailed for years. Rather than a daily limit of 12 birds, hunters will be allowed a limit of 15 doves.
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State residents can fish for free June 10-11\

National Fishing and Boat Week is being celebrated this year from June 3 through June 11, and South Carolina, like most other states, has set aside a time when all state residents can fish without a license. The two days are June 10-11.
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All in for creamy crappie dip

As each day lengthens and the sun's power strengthens, warming waters trigger the spawning urge in crappie. They gradually move from their wintertime holding patterns in deep water into shallows where they lay their eggs.
JIM CASADA

Making complete use of your turkey

Another approach with the dark meat is taking a skinned and breasted carcass, with the legs, thighs and wings still intact, and placing it in a large stew pot. Cook until the meat comes away from the bones easily. The result is a meaty, first-rate stock for use in soups, wild turkey bog or similar...
JIM CASADA

The magic and mystery in turkey hunting

\Yet for all that I am hopelessly addicted to the quest for his majesty, the wild gobbler, I readily recognize that there's more to be done in April than just hunt turkeys.
JIM CASADA

Turkey hunters anxiously await April

Two of my favorite days of the year are the first and last days of turkey season. I await opening day with the eager anticipation a kid associates with Christmas. A month later, after too many early morning risings coupled with too many evenings staying in the woods until pitch dark hoping to roost...
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The joys of greening-up time

These words are being written on the first day of spring and in a room offering about as fine a view as one could wish. I'm in the heart of the Smokies, where I grew up, looking out over the valley of the Tuckasegee River at the Alarka Mountains and their crowning peak, Frye Mountain. It's an inspiring...