Tom Weist's Recent Columns
Grab your reels, get set to fish free
Tennessee’s Free Fishing Day is June 8, and Free Fishing Week is June 8-14, all sponsored by the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency. Read more...
Need a kill tag? There’s an app for that
The new app for smart phones and tablets by the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency is already providing dramatic changes for sportsmen.Read more...
Spring sprung now keeps your hands off
Pups, poults, shoats, cubs, goslings, chicks, calves, fawns, kittens, and kits. Nature’s renewal process is giving birth to all kinds of wildlife and there is something important you can do: Nothing.Read more...
TFWC gets hog wild reports
The TWRA Wild Hog Coordinator provided a summary of the 2012 landowner exemption program, which is the only way that landowners have to control wild hogs on their property.Read more...
Sportsmen inflate state economy
Tennessee’s sportsmen, nearly one million men and women strong, are having a dramatic effect on the state’s economy.Read more...
Turkey restoration leads to chart-topping season
The wild turkey population in Tennessee has stabilized at a little more than 312,000 birds statewide, according to the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency; and the spring harvests have been over 30,000 for more than 10 years.Read more...
Spring turkey hunts closing in
The 2013 spring turkey hunt is just two weeks away, March 30 – May 12. The youth hunt is only one week away.Read more...
Bassmaster app a must have
The Bassmaster Fishing Weather App is a powerful new fishing-specific weather app for the Android and iPhone markets.Read more...
A new year for sportsmen
Happy New Year, sportsmen. All 2012 hunting and fishing licenses expire after Feb. 28.Read more...
Fishing guide released, full of changes
The 2013 Tennessee Fishing Guide is now published and delivered to all of the license agencies. There are new regulations statewide and for all four regions of the state. The effective date for these changes is March 1.Read more...
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Hiking With Hardtack: ‘The Hitch-in-the-Get-Along Gang’ hits The Appalachian Trail at Springer Mountain
When two Army veterans hit The Appalachian Trail at Springer Mountain, Ga., with Daily Times staffers who are following a thru-hiking United Methodist chaplain, they encounter rain, ice, wind and a crowd of other hikers attempting to reach Mount Katahdin before snow arrives -- plus a whole lot more. Read more...
Hiking with Hardtack: United Methodist chaplain journeys along The Appalachian Trail
Josh "Hardtack" Lindamood, a chaplain commissioned by the Holston Conference of the United Methodist Church to serve hikers along The Appalachian Trail, begins his thru-hike of the approximate 2,183-mile footpath from Springer Mountain, Georgia, to Katahdin, Maine, on April 4, and provides a look at the first few days on The A.T. Read more...
