Once the embarrassment of a whiff passes, it’s time to get serious about getting back on target
Author: T. Edward Nickens
T. Edward Nickens
T. Edward Nickens has covered sporting, conservation, and outdoors culture topics for more than 35 years. His work has appeared in Field & Stream for more than two decades, and includes features, his regular column, “The Total Outdoorsman,” five Field & Stream books, and the anthology The Last Wild Road. Highlights Education Nickens graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with degrees in journalism and English. He has been gainfully unemployed for 34 years. Experience Nickens has published more than 1,500 bylined stories, with field work from the Arctic Circle to the Honduran rainforest, and sold more than 300,000 copies of Field & Stream-branded books. He’s won more than three dozen writing awards from the Outdoor Writers Association of America, and numerous National Magazine Award nominations. His work has been collected in more than a half-dozen “best of” collections. His is a contributing editor for Ducks Unlimited magazine, and a contributing editor for Garden & Gun. On camera, Nickens’s has worked as a video talent, field producer, and script writer for projects with the Recreational Fishing and Boating Association, Yamaha Motors, General Tire, and other clients. F&S Lightning Round Favorite Home Waters: Cape Lookout, North Carolina,Favorite Way to Hunt: From a camouflaged canoe,One Place to Return: Labrador for brook trout,Skill Still Trying to Learn: The 80-foot fly cast Notable Work
Two deer hunts from the same tree stand, two seasons apart, yield two very different results
Just because early-season ducks aren’t pressured doesn’t mean they’re easy. One way to up your odds of success is to simply shoot more
Editor-at-Large T. Edward Nickens joins a group of die-hard hare hunters in the deep woods of Maine
Thirty-seven years ago, in the Pennsylvania deer woods, Mark and Dan Witt lost their father, Walter, in a hunting accident. After years of grief, anger, and pain, they found peace. And this summer, for the first time, they went to find their father’s place in the woods.
Two buddies grind it out on a duck hunt in cowboy-and-alien country
Making an old-fashioned bamboo “cane” pole is easy and simple””just like fishing with one
The Taylor family has hunted cottontails in the thickets of North Carolina for three generations, andd along the way they’ve learned a thing or two about how to do it right. Lesson 1: You can’t have too many beagles.
