Monthly Archives: June 2023

Jun
24
2023

Shad Run Ain’t What It Used To Be

by Gary Sanderson

Early June – front yard sweetened in pink weigelia, peony and mock-orange fragrance – 2023’s Connecticut River American shad run down to a trickle. Although the announced June 8 tally of 269,720 could grow slightly by the time all fish passageways are closed, it’ll be irrelevant. The run’s over. Chalk it up as another so-so […]

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Jun
12
2023

Turkey Talk

by Gary Sanderson

I enjoyed a fascinating spring turkey season and never handled a gun. Who needs one? Not me. Not now. After many blissful decades of roaming through marsh, meadow, and high lonesome hardwood spines hunting fur, fish, and feathers, I’m now perfectly content as an elder observer. Whether touring the road on my daily daybreak rambles […]

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