Similar to seventy five percent of hunters in the United States, I was introduced to hunting by my father. I remember bringing the leafy wear jacket I wore crow hunting in the morning to my afternoon kindergarten class my first time hunting. I remember begging to go for what felt like ages and being so excited to sit for my first hunt and see what my dad does every Saturday morning, it was a great experience. While I am immensely grateful for this fantastic opportunity, it wasn’t what I expected, so I didn’t go again for years. My dad was a devout waterfowl hunter, still is, and spent a large majority of his time and energy chasing, or prepping for ducks and geese. He didn’t fish, he didn’t small game hunt, and he did not spend much time deer hunting at the time. The man loved ducks, but at the time I had little interest in waking up at three in the morning to drive an hour and half to Maryland’s Eastern shore to freeze and shoot birds someone else did all the work for, I didn’t know it at the time but my conflicting relationship with hunting at the time was the dependence on others for my success. It was around this same time I fell in love with bass fishing. Hopping from neighborhood pond and stream all summer long chasing new bites and learning fast. With nobody to teach me, I had to learn on my own. Watching YouTube videos, reading articles, and learning by trial and error lead me to grow as an angler in rapid and exciting succession. An opportunity I did not believe I had as a hunter. 

In reality that opportunity existed all along, the same way it existed for me to pick up my rods, head to the trailhead, and catch smallmouth all summer long. In recent years I have fallen in love with hunting like I never have before, as much I still love casting for fish of all varieties, I also love getting in the woods and making a harvest. While my journey in both pastimes is still in its early departure, my passion for starting this page is to share the lessons I have learned along the way. By sharing these stories, some of joyous occasions, others of crippling defeat, I hope to inspire others to become more ethical and successful hunters and anglers and to instill the same levels of excitement I feel when getting outside into anyone who stumbles across my work. 

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