Autumn Arrived Before the Soltice

Two Sundays ago autumn let me know that it had arrived. I needed a fall jacket to sit outside for my morning writing. The squirrels in the yard all had bushy tails. It was only a few weeks earlier that I’d observed that their tails were unusually scraggly. If the...

A Slippery Landing

Last week I wrote about the joys of autumn fishing. I may have spoken too soon. Yesterday a friend and I tried to go fishing on Lake Onalaska, and we barely got a line in the water. The afternoon started out as it is supposed to. It had rained all morning, but twenty...

Autumn Fishing on the Upper Mississippi

I think that the autumn fish frenzy has started. If so, this is an unusual year. It is unusual not because it has come early, but because I seemed to have discovered it before other fishermen have. That would be a first. The fish frenzy is a month on the Upper...
Steven Simpson