Comments on: Back from Michigan and trying to catch up http://blogs.roanoke.com/rtblogs/wildlife/2009/06/19/back-from-michigan-and-trying-to-catch-up/ Outdoor sports editor Mark Taylor blogs about outdoor activities in the Roanoke Valley and beyond. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:43:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Jason http://blogs.roanoke.com/rtblogs/wildlife/2009/06/19/back-from-michigan-and-trying-to-catch-up/#comment-2326 Jason Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:55:22 +0000 http://blogs.roanoke.com/rtblogs/wildlife/?p=1148#comment-2326 Congrats Mark, you are an excellent writer and I've enjoyed your hunting blog since I started viewing it back last Fall. My first memories of watching guys on TV or video was Knight & Hale Outdoor videos in which I still have those old tapes, I need to dust them off and watch them. <strong>--Thanks a bunch, Jason. You're right about those old tapes: They hold some valuable info. mt</strong> Congrats Mark, you are an excellent writer and I've enjoyed your hunting blog since I started viewing it back last Fall. My first memories of watching guys on TV or video was Knight & Hale Outdoor videos in which I still have those old tapes, I need to dust them off and watch them.

--Thanks a bunch, Jason. You're right about those old tapes: They hold some valuable info. mt

]]> By: Perch http://blogs.roanoke.com/rtblogs/wildlife/2009/06/19/back-from-michigan-and-trying-to-catch-up/#comment-2299 Perch Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:13:19 +0000 http://blogs.roanoke.com/rtblogs/wildlife/?p=1148#comment-2299 Count on Static to weigh in well, as usual, count on Mark to be too busy to get to go crush those smallies! Mark.....ummm, ummm, ummm. Big Kudos to Mark for your recognition, you have done us proud, and I know you have worked hard in the organization to bring this about. We who know you are very happy for you. Just for nothin' my first memories were of Gaddabout Gaddis and his float-plane fishing, and the Southern Sportsman, Frank White, who aired in the Tidewater area of VA, where I grew up. Static, my daddy and all of his family was from Dyersburg, Tenn. and I still have family in Memphis. We slayed them yesterday, no monsters, except for the huge (I'm talking 25-30 lbs) musky that we had a great close-up encounter with, but maybe 80 fish, smallies mostly, maybe 15 over 15", with the biggest at 18 1/2". Sometimes muddy water isn't the impediment we can think it is. Good luck to all this week, Mark...GET OUT THERE!!!!!!! <strong>--Thanks, Perch. It's a good thing this job forces me to get out on the water some times or I might never find time to fish! mt</strong> Count on Static to weigh in well, as usual, count on Mark to be too busy to get to go crush those smallies! Mark.....ummm, ummm, ummm. Big Kudos to Mark for your recognition, you have done us proud, and I know you have worked hard in the organization to bring this about. We who know you are very happy for you.

Just for nothin' my first memories were of Gaddabout Gaddis and his float-plane fishing, and the Southern Sportsman, Frank White, who aired in the Tidewater area of VA, where I grew up. Static, my daddy and all of his family was from Dyersburg, Tenn. and I still have family in Memphis.

We slayed them yesterday, no monsters, except for the huge (I'm talking 25-30 lbs) musky that we had a great close-up encounter with, but maybe 80 fish, smallies mostly, maybe 15 over 15", with the biggest at 18 1/2". Sometimes muddy water isn't the impediment we can think it is.

Good luck to all this week, Mark...GET OUT THERE!!!!!!!

--Thanks, Perch. It's a good thing this job forces me to get out on the water some times or I might never find time to fish! mt

]]> By: Static Lines http://blogs.roanoke.com/rtblogs/wildlife/2009/06/19/back-from-michigan-and-trying-to-catch-up/#comment-2293 Static Lines Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:55:33 +0000 http://blogs.roanoke.com/rtblogs/wildlife/?p=1148#comment-2293 The very first show I seen was "The World of Virgil Ward" & John Fox and his catch phrase I do declare, and if the water shallow and your lure is caught go get it. Now Bill Dance show was not on the Sunday line up his show aired in Memphis his and my home town on Saturday. Oh and by the way Happy Fathers Day! And to all those responsible fathers that have taken time out to teach your children the joys of fishing and hunting and just being considerate of your fellow man. BRAVO ZULU!!!!!! The very first show I seen was "The World of Virgil Ward" & John Fox and his catch phrase I do declare, and if the water shallow and your lure is caught go get it.

Now Bill Dance show was not on the Sunday line up his show aired in Memphis his and my home town on Saturday.

Oh and by the way Happy Fathers Day! And to all those responsible fathers that have taken time out to teach your children the joys of fishing and hunting and just being considerate of your fellow man.

BRAVO ZULU!!!!!!

]]> By: Static Lines http://blogs.roanoke.com/rtblogs/wildlife/2009/06/19/back-from-michigan-and-trying-to-catch-up/#comment-2290 Static Lines Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:44:06 +0000 http://blogs.roanoke.com/rtblogs/wildlife/?p=1148#comment-2290 Mark Congratulations is in order for your writers award and thanks for keeping our area fishermen informed without your diligence and excellence to the public fishing would just be fishing only without lure to go outside. You spoke of television personalities whom was the first person you ever seen host an outside fishing show besides Kurt Gowdy's American Sportsman Show? <strong>--Thanks, Static. After Gowdy -- and here's a confession, when I was a little kid, I used to complain when Dad wanted to watch the American Sportsman because I wanted to watch regular sports -- I remember watching Jerry McGinnis' "Fishing Hole" on ESPN, as well as early Bill Dance and Jimmy Houston shows. Are you thinking of someone else? mt</strong> Mark

Congratulations is in order for your writers award and thanks for keeping our area fishermen informed without your diligence and excellence to the public fishing would just be fishing only without lure to go outside.

You spoke of television personalities whom was the first person you ever seen host an outside fishing show besides Kurt Gowdy's American Sportsman Show?

--Thanks, Static. After Gowdy -- and here's a confession, when I was a little kid, I used to complain when Dad wanted to watch the American Sportsman because I wanted to watch regular sports -- I remember watching Jerry McGinnis' "Fishing Hole" on ESPN, as well as early Bill Dance and Jimmy Houston shows. Are you thinking of someone else? mt

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