Learn to avoid these toxic shrubs, vines, and herbs, or learn to deal with blistering rashes and nuclear diarrhea””or worse
Author: Bill Heavey
Bill Heavey
Bill Heavey started writing for Field & Stream in the 1990s and slowly faked his way into an editor-at-large title. He has written four books about the outdoors, including If You Didn’t Bring Jerky, What Did I Just Eat? Highlights Education Heavey went to a boys’ prep school in Bethesda, Maryland, and graduated from George Washington University with a degree in English literature. Experience Field & Stream is staffed with superbly skilled outdoorsmen and women, people who can shoot the eyes out of a running chipmunk at 300 yards or tie a fly out of their pocket lint and some tinfoil and go catch a tarpon on it. Heavey is not one of them. He lives by the watchwords, “Enthusiasm trumps skill” and “Hunting and fishing are too much fun to leave to the experts.” Heavey was once approached by a fan with no job, no health insurance, a bad limp, and no teeth. Upon meeting Heavey, the man said, “Bill, sometimes I read your stuff, and I just feel so sorry for you.” F&S Lightning Round Favorite Place to Fish for Bass: CubaFavorite Place to Fish and Catch Nothing: MongoliaFavorite Game Animal: Whitetail deerSkill That He Seems Incapable of Learning: Fly fishing Notable Work
Some of the best gifts are the ones you never expected or even knew you wanted. When you get one, all you can do is be grateful
Lightning, which does strike in the same place twice, can literally knock your socks off and change your personality
Jeff Budz has taken more turkey grand slams than any hunter ever. But is he good enough to get editor-at-large Bill Heavey a gobbler?
_Marty Meierotto is an Alaskan trapper. He works in subzero temperatures. He operates dangerous machinery. He sleeps with a loaded…
The authors follows the process of how an iconic lure gets made””from the squirrel woods to the factory and finally to the river
When you travel 6,500 miles to catch a maniacal fish in an unforgiving land, you have to be ready to play dirty
Snakes, sharks, wolves, elephants, and crocodiles can all kill you, but it’s mosquitoes, kissing bugs, and snails that you really want to watch out for
Wiping out on a hiking path leads to a new outlook on mortality””and on making life count
A set of buck tracks leaves a story in the snow that ends with a filled tag. But only if you know how to read it.
