Olean Times Herald

I have spent all my life trying to become a better trout fisherman. This has become a perpetual quest, I guess, a study and a pursuit I dearly love, o...

SMETHPORT, Pa. — Dave Tenny and I worked together at Control Chief and Dave is an avid outdoorsman and a great guy. He also is quite a wit and I was o...

How times change — and so quickly. Who would have thought the entire country would be forced to confront a deadly disease and essentially shut down to...

Wednesday’s the first day of trout season. I certainly hope this fills you with bubbling excitement and a thrill of anticipation and I’ll tell you why...

I often alternate between laughing and crying. I have a special ability to store things in places which seem wise and sage at the time, but are imposs...

Well, it’s that time of year, when things kind of drag a bit. Most of us are pretty sick of winter, even if it’s been a mild one. The short days, cold...

Trout season is still weeks away. We have been extremely fortunate in the weather department so far, but March has been snowy in recent years. With th...

When I went to school, and for years after, I’d have a reoccurring dream in which I’d go to class and discover, to my horror, an important paper hadn’...

The little boy with a bad leg in a heavy brace stopped, bent and gasping on the steep dirt road. The road stretched ever upward, it seemed to the boy,...