Our Outdoors: The TrifectaBy Nick Simonson On the final day of vacation in the Black Hills, I knew it was possible.  Having landed my first brook trout along with many more and discovered swarms of willing and readily biting large rainbow trout in the same lake-and-stream complex near our cabin over the week; and staked […]

Our Outdoors: Deep RecollectionsBy Nick Simonson My first experience with wild trout came in Montana just before my senior year of high school.  There, alongside a ditch that we were told was a trout stream by the man at the shop in the nearby town, I wandered out toward the bank and looked down to […]

Our Outdoors: Home & AwayBy Nick Simonson I’ll be the first to tell you that I’m a homebody when it comes to the outdoors.  It doesn’t take much for me to get lost chasing walleyes along the river winding through town, casting after trout in the nearby lakes, or picking off a few hungry bass […]

Our Outdoors: Cream of the CropBy Nick Simonson A shellacking. A beatdown. A butt-whooping.  All these terms paled in my young mind when describing a drubbing on the baseball field when compared to the term “getting creamed.”  That descriptor suggests that the opposing team had swung their bats so mightily and so frequently and with […]