The author shot his first Columbia blacktail 49 years ago and he ranks them among North America’s most challenging big game animals.

A hill towered over the land, and at its peak a lone oak loomed like a sentry. The tree provided an escape from the punishing sun, and the hill gave us a vantage of the grounds below where blacktail ...

Fly fishing Amber Lake is open until Nov. 30 with a limit of one trout 18 inches or larger, and it should provide good fishing right to the end. Dark-colored wooly buggers are doing well. By late ...