A Fishing Guide First, Newspaper Columnist Second
Outdoors columnist Larry Dablemont looks back on 50 memorable years.
Fifty years ago this summer, Larry Dablemont started at Missouri’s Houston Herald as the paper’s first outdoors columnist. To mark a monumental half-century as a journalist and author, Dablemont has filled a June column with tender professional memories.
When Dablemont originally chose to tackle journalism, he was well-known in the area as a Big Piney River fishing guide. He started in that capacity at age 12 and explains that it was through those activities that he met his future newspaper mentor:
When I began that job of writing weekly outdoor columns at the age of 17, it was to become something far greater than I could have ever dreamed.
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