The Jon Boat Years

Jim Mize writes from his cabin in the South Carolina mountains while his Lab, Moose, keeps the bears at bay. His previous books include The Winter of our Discount Tent, A Creek Trickles Through It, Hunting with Beanpole, and Fishing with Beanpole. His articles have appeared in Gray's Sporting Journal, Field & Stream, South Carolina Wildlife, In-Fisherman, Great Days Outdoors, and other magazines.

Foreword by Jim Casada
PrefaceAcross Generations


First Pup
Your Day Will Come
Kids Do Say the Darndest Things
The Jon Boat Years
Another Letter to a Grandson
A Letter to a Granddaughter
Fishing with Others
If a Tree Falls
My Buddy's Fishing Hole
The Seabee Jacket
After Dark
Fishing Directions
Old Guys in a Boat
A Lesson Twice Learned
Fishing Odd Hatches
Yellow Damn Jackets
Carpy Diem
Along Came a Spider
Fishing the Mosquito Hatch
A Whiff of Skunk
Stir Crazy
Low Expectations
Jinxed
Into the Backing
Gone with the Wind Knot
Fly Fishing for Suckers
The Colorado Years
Freedom
Coldcocked
Skinny-Dipping with Cutties
The Fish of a Lifetime
Pondering Deer Stuff
Hunting with KP
Hunting in the Haunted House
The Deer Who Wore Camo
Custer's Last Deer Stand
Pondering Deer Stuff
A Class in Ethics
In Pursuit of Bearded Birds
How to Name Your Turkey
The Turkey Chainsaw Massacre
Almost a Lion Story
Growing Your Gobbler
Of Ducks and Dogs
Blurred Memories
A Quack's Guide to Duck Calls
Reasons for Owning a Dog
My Steel Shot Rusted
Upland Birds
Hunting the Pole
Kudzu Quail
Hunting the Hurricane
The Christmas Gift
Winders
An Old Red Shirt