Leon Archer, Outdoors Columnist - Leon has been writing “The Sportsman’s World” column since 1985. He is a five-time first place winner of the New York State Outdoor Writers Association’s Excellence In Craft Award in addition to numerous other writing awards. He is currently an active member and vice president of the New York State Writers Association. His column covers a wide range of outdoor topics far beyond just hunting and fishing.
by Leon Archer This is the time of year that fishing a place like Sandy Pond is a real crap shoot. The bullheads will still bite if you are in the right spot, but before you get one of them on your line, you are more likely to end up with a rambunctious sunfish or(…)
by Leon Archer Well, I know I’m back on track now. Sweet Thing and I returned from Seattle and it took a couple of days to get the time sorted out, but we are now getting to bed before midnight and rising before 9 a.m. It has been pretty dry, so a couple days after(…)
by Leon Archer Although it has been many years since I speared my last sucker in the cold waters of spring, I still smile thinking about the deliciously wet and frigid outings with my school days friends on Little Sandy Creek. The suckers would make their annual spawning run somewhere between mid-April and mid-May, and(…)
by Leon Archer I drove by a restaurant just a few days ago and saw a sign advertising Bullhead dinners and I was almost tempted to stop. I hope it wasn’t a mistake. I expect to catch my own in a week or so, but a side trip to Seattle was in the cards first,(…)
by Leon Archer I was hoping that the weather would be a little more welcoming, but we are home all the same. We left temperatures in the high 80s on Monday and enjoyed the mid 70s as we travelled up through the Carolinas and Virginia. Things started to change by degrees Wednesday as we moved(…)
by Leon Archer This past week has been a busy one for Sweet Thing and me as we prepared for our departure from the sunny south. It is always a sort of bittersweet time for us, for as we look forward to seeing family and old friends, we are at the same time saying goodbye(…)
by Leon Archer One of the frustrating things for visiting winter fishermen who like to fish on party boats here in Florida is the fact that most of what they catch they can’t keep. I like fishing occasionally on a party boat, but I also like to have at least an outside chance of catching(…)
by Leon Archer We have had sort of a reverse winter in Florida and, as I write this column, we are only about 10 degrees colder than Fulton. December and January were beautiful, almost steamy at times, and February was just about perfect, but March has been a really cool month. March brought some freezes(…)
