SUCCESSFUL DUCK HUNT!

Not only did we bag some birds, this day was Orvis' first retrieve. He is only 9 months old and has a lot learn, but so do I. He makes duck hunting more enjoyable. We had birds coming at us all day. I shot a few and missed a few, but a fun day in the mud.

Deer Hunt 2010

I finally drew a southern unit deer hunt. I was fornunate to have access to some private land to hunt on. It was the first time in a long time I had gone camping and done the deer hunt thing like the old times. My brothers and dad camped and myself, my brother, his son, and some other family went hunting. It snowed a couple of inches the evening before and that was a good thing. We woke up early, waited for some daylight and started pushing. We we all met up, bucks were all around us. We all saw some good deer and I was able to get two shots off at a nice four point. The first shot the deer was on the run, so I didn't feel to bad about that one. The second shot I just missed. I was so mad that I had missed that opportunity. We planned some more and started hunting. After an hour I was certain I had missed my opportunity for that day. Just before we met up again, I saw some horns on the horizion. It was a two point. I asked my cousins if any of them wanted to shoot it and they didn't (They both ended up shooting bigger bucks). I let one fly and I thought I saw it drop to its knees. When we got up there, the deer was gone. I started walking around saying I hit it. My brother and cousin were behind me and the deer was circling. They saw it and it was hobbling around. We finished it off and I had my buck.

I shot the deer a long ways from a road, so me and my cousin drug him about an hour and a half to a road. It was a lot of work, but definately worth it. The next day my cousin shot a deer in the same area and drug it on the same trail I had drug my buck. While he was dragging it he noticed lion tracks in the snow. The lion was tracking my deer's blood trail from the day before.

Yankee Meadow Rainbows

A couple of nice Yankee Meadow rainbows.

Kents Lake 2010

I love float tubing small lakes. There are several on the Beaver Mountains. One of my favorites is Kents Lake. It is a beautiful little lake. It is so shallow that there are few places where you cannot see the bottom of the lake. Trout grow big here. Also, there are a variety. You never know if you have hooked into a brookie, rainbow, cut, or tiger trout. I caught a couple of nice cuts and rainbows on this trip. The first rainbow I hooked into dove straight back down in the weeds and it took about 5 minutes to land. I love fighting fish on a fly rod. It is also fun because you can use floating or in my case sink tip line. Fun day.

Mill Meadow Brown Trout

Snow Geese

Ty was as excited as I was when I brought home these snow geese. I had never hunted them before. My brother in law and I went to our spot and tried some intereted tactics. One of them involved underwear and a lucky duck. We were watching in awe as the canadians were buzzing around us at a range of 10 ft. We didn't know what to expect for the snow geese. We finally saw some and tried to sneak up on them, which didn't work. We covered ourselves with a painters drop cloth and waited in the spot were we spooked them. About a half hour later the sounds got deafening and the the sky turned black. I think our "tactics" scared them away again. I moved to a different spot and waited. Soon they were back again. I had a plug in my gun and was able to shoot 3 geese as they came in. A half hour later they were back and I dropped 2. We waited around for a couple of hours and they never came back. It was a blast to hunt these beautiful birds. I have been able to use a lot of these feathers to tie flies. I hope I have the opportunity to get into these birds again!


TY AND I
GOOD LOOKING BIRDS