Profile of Len Rich

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• My Outdoors:
  A few days ago I was sitting on the sofa, looking out at a small bird feeding on some seeds that had been placed into a hanging bird feeder. That ...
• My Outdoors:
  I'm one of those people who really doesn't venture far from a warm room once the snow starts to fly and frigid cold sets in. There is no desire ...
• My Outdoors:Safe hunting
  It happens every year. The hunting season brings with it incidents that should and could have been avoided. Some of them result in severe injury ...
• My Outdoors:
  This past summer I was fortunate to be among a group of fly fishers who visited the lodge of St. John's realtor Jim Burton at Flower's River, ...
• My Outdoors:
  Last summer I was fortunate to arrange a fishing trip with an old friend, Neil Lucas, who has developed a new business he calls 'River Runner Fly ...
• My Outdoors:
  Have you ever heard of the 'North American model'? How about the 'Seven Sisters'? No, it isn't some sort of beauty contest, and the seven sisters ...
• My Outdoors:
  April 2008 was a bad month for me personally. I lost two old friends in April, two men I had known for years and fished with many times during ...
• My Outdoors:
  Every fly fisher knows what a 'bomber' is. To the uninitiated, it is definitely not an aircraft designed to drop bombs from serious heights on ...
• My Outdoors:
  It had to happen. The temptation was too great. Just think of it, all those tasty, juicy, delicious salmon just sitting out there in a sea cage, ...
• My Outdoors: Disappointed? Not me!
  When Fisheries Minister Loyola Hearn finally came out with the 2008 plan for the recreational cod fishery, I was not disappointed. In fact, you ...
• RVing and gas prices
  I don't know about you, but I have to swallow hard every time I pull into a gas station. Like almost everyone today who has a powered vehicle, ...
• My Outdoors:
  Anyone who has caught a salmon near a river estuary knows what sea lice look like. They are a parasite, eating the flesh and scale coating of ...
• The Labrador trout trip
  Remember that trip I took in the summer to return to Awesome Lake, for fly-fishing those big brook trout? I figured by now your interest might be ...
• My Outdoors:
  A couple of years ago when I was at the Atlantic Outdoor Sports and RV Show in Halifax, I met a guy who had a booth near mine. I was there ...
• My Outdoors:
  It's been more than 20 years have passed since I wrote this column for the Newfoundland Herald. It has been edited a bit due to space restraints. ...
• My Outdoors:
  It's a tradition going back in time more than a century, when being a Newfoundland and Labrador hunting and fishing guide was a proud profession. ...
• My Outdoors:
  Debate about gun control continues to make headlines, both across Canada and in this province. The latter was prompted by the senseless death ...
• My Outdoors:
  A few days ago I was sitting on the sofa looking out at a small bird feeding on some seeds that had been placed into a hanging bird feeder. That ...
• My Outdoors:
  A friend of mine, Harold Penney of Gander, returned from a fall moose-hunting trip. He ended up with half a moose (the arse end) and admitted ...
• My Outdoors:
  I'm a little too old to believe in Santa Claus, although I was almost fooled by Tim Allen in the movie 'The Santa Clause' a few years back. His ...
• Neither Here Nor There:
  It is less than a week since the shortest day of the year, the day people who make up names for days call 'the first day of winter'. Not really a ...
• My Outdoors:
  There's a lot to be said for winter. Crisp, clear days and a layer of pure white cover the countryside. The brisk air seems purer and sweeter ...
• My Outdoors:
  Unless you've been living in a cave for the past 15 or so years, you've been witness to some crazy changes in our weather patterns. Not only are ...
• My Outdoors:
  At the end of September, I joined a horde of people who had been looking forward to the re-opening of the recreational cod fishery. I was invited ...
• My Outdoors:
  It never fails to impress me. Labrador. 'The Big Land'! It's one of the last remaining areas of North America that has not been totally developed ...
• My Outdoors:
  The deaths and injuries of young people on ATVs this summer have created an emotional debate in this province, and rightly so. Radio talk shows ...
• MY OUTDOORS: Take a kid fishing
  Theres nothing like the smile of achievement on your childs face to make you feel warm and fuzzy inside. One way to do that, and at the same ...
• My Outdoors: Responsible freedom on the water
  Ah, the pleasure of it all. Rocking slowly to and fro on the sea, the smell of salt air in your lungs, a rod or jigger in your hand, hoping for ...
• My Outdoors ...
  Some people never seem to get the message poaching is a serious offence. The courts, however, are taking it quite seriously and laying down some ...
• My Outdoors ...
  A surge of adrenalin upped my heartbeat, as I felt the weight of the fish, which had just taken my fly. My graphite rod bent under the strain, ...