Alice Jones, now 91 years old, hopes to harvest her first bear this year.
Loaded for bear
When Alice Jones was young, hunting was man’s occupation, and women could join the Excelsior Hunting Club in Highland only with their husbands. Back then, she was accepted by her male counterparts “as an oddball,” probably due to her hunting skills, although Alice modestly doesn’t brag about them. Last October she turned 91, and she says with regret, “I cannot stalk anymore, because it’s hard for me to move around a lot now. But I can still hunt by going to where the deer come and sitting there quietly waiting.”
For over a decade Dr. Jonathan Leffert of Dallas, TX has been monitoring and controlling my thyroid problems. After listening to my often soul-stirring tales of fly fishing during office visits, the doctor asked if I could teach him and his young daughter Catherine to fly fish. Aha, another opportunity to, “pass it on.” While still being works in progress, they have both been able to catch trout while floating famous rivers such as the White in Arkansas and the South Holston in Tennessee.
