- Look near brush. Fish crowd around structures for shade and cover.
- Use live bait near shore. While this might sound weird, it works. If there is a tree overhanging the river, with branches nearly touching the river, then throw some bait under there. Fish are waiting for food to fall of the branches into the water. So, you just might catch something.
- If at first you don't succeed, try try again. I haven't had much luck lately, but I need to keep trying. I know there are some big fish in the river I'm fishing at, it's just a matter of finding what the fish want to eat.
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Spring Fishing
It seems that spring has come! I have not been writing like I should, life takes it toll on time! Anyway, it's been a while since I've done anything on fishing. Right now, the big thing for me is river fishing, I'm hoping to at least get good at it. Here's what I've learned.
Friday, January 8, 2016
The End of a Season: Reflections
On January 2nd of this year, I had to cope with a realization...deer season was over. Yes, there are other seasons going on and it will come again this fall, but still. It's over.
This year was a year of firsts. It was the first season that I got more than one deer (at least, more than one recovered deer). It was the first season I shot a deer with a bow. It was the first season where mom went on a hunt with me to witness food from field to table.
Mixed with the firsts were the usual things. Some near misses, and shot-but-can't-finds. This year I went without tagging a big buck, but then again, I never have.
Animal sightings were a plus this year. I saw coyotes at close range, and fawns playing with their friends and mothers.
As always, deer vs. you staring contests are always fun, especially when you realize during the contest that you haven't hardly breathed since it started seemingly an hour ago.
Yes, this was a good season.
This year was a year of firsts. It was the first season that I got more than one deer (at least, more than one recovered deer). It was the first season I shot a deer with a bow. It was the first season where mom went on a hunt with me to witness food from field to table.
Mixed with the firsts were the usual things. Some near misses, and shot-but-can't-finds. This year I went without tagging a big buck, but then again, I never have.
Animal sightings were a plus this year. I saw coyotes at close range, and fawns playing with their friends and mothers.
As always, deer vs. you staring contests are always fun, especially when you realize during the contest that you haven't hardly breathed since it started seemingly an hour ago.
Yes, this was a good season.
Friday, December 11, 2015
December Pictures
It's been a while since I've posted any pictures! Well here are a couple from this month.
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| Nice young buck isn't he? |
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| Small spike |
I don't have very many from this month, so, I'll share more when I get more, but for now, that's all folks!
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
An Early December Evening
The doe stared in my direction. She had seen something, something in the field moved. I was on my belly crawling across a field to get a shot at a doe, when things got crazy and a smaller doe headed in my direction. To make matters all the more interesting, there were 5 more deer feeding nearby, making any other movement than crawling nearly impossible.
I was hunting a double field that evening of December 5th. Why do I call it double? It's two fields separated by a thin line of trees, with enough branches in the way to only give me one or two shooting windows into the back field. My hopes for this hunt and the other hunts I've had there is that the deer would come to the field directly in front of me, giving an easier shot (which has happened once, when I wasn't there and only observing from 100 yards away). I had been there the night before, seeing 6 deer all at once and never getting a shot. That wasn't the first time something like that had happened. I've always seen at least 3 deer there at once (it has become apparent to me that I'm dealing with a doe group). Tired of not getting a shot while having plenty of deer in front of me, I decided that that was the night I would shoot at something.
I set up around 4:20 p.m. in such a position so that I could crawl into the field easily, if needed. Not long into my hunt, I had 3 deer in the field. Then that number increased as not one, not two, but three does jumped a fence to join the does already in the field. After watching them feed for a few minutes, with the deer appearing to be slowly moving away to my right, I decided it was time to move.
My crawl started well, only having to stop for short instances when a doe in the back field looked in my direction. Just as it seemed I would get a shot at a good doe, the smaller doe mentioned above entered the field I was in. Trying to sneak up on a deer in a field is not an easy task by any means, never mind the fact that there are SIX deer that could look at any moment and spot me. While she fed/stared at me, I turned around and head to a tree that was on my left since the does had changed directions. I made it to the tree, which I was able to hide behind and look for a shooting window, which I found. Once the deer passed into it, I aimed for the biggest doe. BANG!!! The shot missed. All the does scattered from the field, though two doe fawns were reluctant to leave and wanted to see what shot at them. After they eventually left, I went home empty handed, but willing to come back for a second chance.
I was hunting a double field that evening of December 5th. Why do I call it double? It's two fields separated by a thin line of trees, with enough branches in the way to only give me one or two shooting windows into the back field. My hopes for this hunt and the other hunts I've had there is that the deer would come to the field directly in front of me, giving an easier shot (which has happened once, when I wasn't there and only observing from 100 yards away). I had been there the night before, seeing 6 deer all at once and never getting a shot. That wasn't the first time something like that had happened. I've always seen at least 3 deer there at once (it has become apparent to me that I'm dealing with a doe group). Tired of not getting a shot while having plenty of deer in front of me, I decided that that was the night I would shoot at something.
I set up around 4:20 p.m. in such a position so that I could crawl into the field easily, if needed. Not long into my hunt, I had 3 deer in the field. Then that number increased as not one, not two, but three does jumped a fence to join the does already in the field. After watching them feed for a few minutes, with the deer appearing to be slowly moving away to my right, I decided it was time to move.
My crawl started well, only having to stop for short instances when a doe in the back field looked in my direction. Just as it seemed I would get a shot at a good doe, the smaller doe mentioned above entered the field I was in. Trying to sneak up on a deer in a field is not an easy task by any means, never mind the fact that there are SIX deer that could look at any moment and spot me. While she fed/stared at me, I turned around and head to a tree that was on my left since the does had changed directions. I made it to the tree, which I was able to hide behind and look for a shooting window, which I found. Once the deer passed into it, I aimed for the biggest doe. BANG!!! The shot missed. All the does scattered from the field, though two doe fawns were reluctant to leave and wanted to see what shot at them. After they eventually left, I went home empty handed, but willing to come back for a second chance.
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
4 Years of Snow Camp Outdoors!
It just hit me today as I was thinking about my hunting past, on November 28th, 2015, Snow Camp Outdoors has been up for 4 years! This year, while I didn't post an overwhelming amount, I saw one post get used by the RMEF for their youth newsletter! One of my favorite posts was one I did very recently, when I wrote about Mom's first hunt with me!
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