"addicted" to duck hunting as a child, based on the encouragement of Grits Gresham columns. "Through my work I've had the opportunity to meet, hunt, and fish with a few of the giants in my business. But I never met Grits. It's just as well. Some pedestals should remain untouched," Garth said in his tribute to the legendary outdoorsman. Joe Macaluso, outdoor editor of the Baton Rouge Morning Advocate recalled a fishing trip with Gresham on Toledo Bend Reservoir at the Texas-Louisiana boundary. Macaluso described Gresham as "the most famous of all Louisiana outdoors writers and media members... He was like a loaf of good French bread, crusty-hard on the outside and tender on the inside. When I told him that, he laughed [and said] 'Don’t tell anyone else'..." The Gresham Collection is located at the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame Foundation in Natchitoches. Books The Complete Book of Bass Fishing Fishes and Fishing In Louisiana Fishing and Boating in Louisiana The Sportsman and his Family Outdoors The Complete Wildfowler Grits on Guns Grits Gresham on Duck Hunting (video) Grits Gresham on Goose Hunting (video) Weatherby: The Man. the Gun. the Legend References 1922 births 2008 deaths 20th-century American journalists 20th-century American male writers American columnists American conservationists American hunters American information and reference writers American magazine editors American male journalists American male non-fiction writers American non-fiction outdoors writers American sports announcers Angling writers Blue Ridge School alumni Journalists from Louisiana Louisiana State University alumni People from Spartanburg County, South Carolina Shreveport Times journalists Sportspeople from Natchitoches, Louisiana United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II United States Army Air Forces soldiers Deaths from Alzheimer's disease Deaths from pneumonia in Louisiana Neurological disease deaths in Louisiana