Let’s give a hip, hip hooray to local business person Chuck Workman of Appalachian Sport on Rt 219 for again this year leading the effort to stock trout in the Greenbrier River in and around Marlinton.    This effort is totally funded through local donations.  Last year $4500 was raised among local Marlinton area businesses to [...]

What started out as a small race along the banks of the Greenbrier River back in 1986, has now become thee triathlon event in the region. The Great Greenbrier River Race is the main fund-raising event for the Greenbrier River Association. Says this year’s chairperson, Robin DeMarchi “People are very generous when it comes to [...]

Last week I was surprised to see the DNR stocking truck dipping nets full of fish into Knapps Creek. Then I remembered, IT’S SPRING. Yea, Spring, with its brightly colored flowers, peeping frogs, warmer temperatures, and the Rubber Footed Flannel Crested River Wader, better known as the legendary Angler. As the snow melts, the streams [...]

I started out writing this with lots of facts about fishing here in Pocahontas County. But then I got in a state of fishing and it all changed. Some of the sweetest times I can remember with my dad were times that he would take me out fishing with him when I was a kid [...]

Do you think it a bit odd I’m writing about birds when there is 7 to 10 inches of snow on the ground? I agree, it is, but I have a point, really. The Marlinton Ranger District of the Monongahela National Forest has developed some pretty amazing maps for finding birds, when the weather gets [...]