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THREE VIRGINIA OUTDOOR ADVENTURES TO BEAT CABIN FEVER
Seems it’s getting harder and harder to find something we can all agree on these days, but one thing is for absolute certain—it’s cold....
Matt Reilly
Jan 10, 20183 min read


A NEW VENTURE
Everyone is endowed with a calling. A passion or purpose. Something that makes you individually and definitively you. Something that...
Matt Reilly
Dec 30, 20173 min read


DISCOVERING A VIRGINIA TROPHY SMALLMOUTH FISHERY
“I’d just like to learn something, get a better bearing on what these late-summer fish are doing,” I said over my right shoulder,...
Matt Reilly
Sep 14, 20173 min read


FOUR KIDS IN A MEXICAN RESTAURANT
Kids, they sat there waiting. Just three—an unbalanced number. One can talk to the other two but not with complete comfort lent by...
Matt Reilly
Jul 19, 20173 min read


WILDERNESS BROOK TROUT IN ONTARIO'S NORTHWEST INTERIOR
Adventure-scarred canoes lashed to its pontoons, a fully-loaded DCH-2 Beaver circled one of northwest Ontario’s thousands of jagged lakes...
Matt Reilly
Jul 12, 20173 min read


FIRST BLOOD
I don’t like killing things. That may come as an unexpected confession from one who loves the sport of hunting, and has a somewhat...
Matt Reilly
Dec 20, 20163 min read


HIKING MOUNT ROGERS--VIRGINIA'S ROOFTOP
There’s a reason moving mountains is used metaphorically in description of a miracle. The mountains we know are Mother Nature’s most...
Matt Reilly
Apr 20, 20163 min read


BEFORE THE STORM
“I’m dropping out after today.” The declaration was one part joke, two parts intent, and escaped daily into a warm, bluebird sky from...
Matt Reilly
Apr 5, 20163 min read
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