The Sportsman's Corner

Like this year's spring weather, last spring's was generally not proper for effective fly-fishing for trout. However, when weather and water conditions were appropriate, I hit the water with mixed results. In addition, the spring turkeys were effectively humiliating me; and by May 10 I was pretty much becoming a zombie from a lack of sleep, hunting during the mornings and fly-fishing later in the day when I could.

Weather gurus kept telling us that the next several days were going to drop buckets of rain that would foul up my favorite creeks for weeks.

So, figuring that I might be unable to fi...